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Native Elements, Sulfides, Halides, Sulfates - Faculty web pages

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<strong>Sulfides</strong>: Majority of ore minerals<br />

Most opaque with distinctive colors and streaks<br />

Pyrite – FeS 2 ; Isometric<br />

Cubic xstals with striated faces; also pyritohedrons and octahedrons<br />

Metallic luster; conchoidal fracture; Greenish-black streak<br />

Most common and widespread sulfide mineral<br />

Occurrence:<br />

1) Accessory mineral in igneous, metamorphic and sed rocks<br />

2) Mississippi Valley deposits<br />

3) Other sulfide deposits

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