The tablets, he discovered, were made of Tunisian lead, suggesting that the Romans were mining a lead ore known as galena in the African colony. From Wordnik.com. [On Archaeology’s Front Line in Atlanta] Reference
~ Lead is found in nature chiefly as the sulphide (PbS), called galena; to a much smaller extent it occurs as carbonate, sulphate, chromate, and in a few other forms. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
Quartzite, with traces of galena and molybdic sulphide. 3 and 4. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
The most significant lead mineral is galena (PbS, lead sulfide). From Wordnik.com. [Lead] Reference
Much lead is recovered as the primary metal from galena deposits. From Wordnik.com. [Lead] Reference
Virtually all our lead is mined as some kind of lead ore (e.g. galena) and refined. From Wordnik.com. [ASA Calls for Action Against Proposed Washington Lead Ban] Reference
Lead and zinc: zinc blende, chalcopyrite, galena, lead, zinc and copper concentrates. From Wordnik.com. [New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission] Reference
Our engineer declared it to be argentiferous galena, but it proved to be magnetic iron. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
That sold in the bazars is not the real grey ore of antimony but a galena or sulphuret of lead. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Calamine is found in beds and veins in limestone rocks, and is often associated with galena and blende. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Practically all the lead of commerce is made from galena, two general methods of metallurgy being in use. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
During the Civil War, the Union Army made bullets from lead derived from a galena mine at Balmat, New York. From Wordnik.com. [Lead] Reference
The blow-pipe soon showed that it was not galena (the sulphide), but some of it contained traces of silver. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
Hood: of the maxilla is the galena; q.v.: in Tingitidae the elevated portion of the prothorax, often covering the head. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
The ore of the Walker and Webster and the Piñon is chiefly lead-carbonate and galena, often stained with copper-carbonate. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884] Reference
The lead-mines of Huelgoat have been worked since the fifteenth century for the silver which the lead-ore (galena) contains. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
The sulphur of the galena falls to the bottom of the bath, and may be separated from the gangue by solution in carbon disulphide. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884] Reference
Marion, galena (in barite) from Lockport, Henry County, and large lumps and ground fluorspar and lead concentrates from Marion, Crittenden. From Wordnik.com. [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference
Most ores of important metals such as mercury (cinnabar - HgS), iron (pyrite - FeS2), and lead (galena - PbS) are extracted from sulfides. From Wordnik.com. [Composition of rocks] Reference
At Monteponi the crystals encrust cavities in glistening granular galena; and from Leadhills, in Scotland, pseudomorphs of anglesite after galena are known. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
"It is this bluish-gray sample of galena, which, as you see, looks like lead itself, and is often mistaken for it; but it is far from being lead of the kind we can work.". From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns] Reference
At the Fallowfield lead mine, near Hexham in Northumberland, it is associated with witherite; and at Bromley Hill, near Alston in Cumberland, it occurs in veins with galena. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
And do you suppose Yetmore recognized the sand as galena ore?. From Wordnik.com. [The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado] Reference
He must have seen pulverized samples of galena many a time in the assayers 'offices. From Wordnik.com. [The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado] Reference
But there is a vein of galena, size and value unknown, somewhere up on Lincoln Mountain. From Wordnik.com. [The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado] Reference
The majority of greater than 5 g/t gold zones occur within veins of grey silica with galena. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
Calcareous rock with galena was to be found, besides fragments of calcite, gypsum, and slag. From Wordnik.com. [Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland] Reference
The main feature is a sulfide zone composed primarily of galena with some pyrite and arsenopyrite. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
Sphalerite, chalcopyrite and galena occur in varying amounts with pyrrhotite, pyrite and arsenopyrite. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference
The principal lead mineral is the sulphide, galena, from which the great bulk of the world's lead is derived. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference
"And do you expect to go prospecting for this vein of galena in the spring?" he inquired, when I had concluded. From Wordnik.com. [The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado] Reference
It has also acquired the titles to a number of other valuable mines of galena ore, and copper containing silver and gold. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir of the Proposed Territory of Arizona] Reference
As a matter of fact, there was no vein at all -- just one single chunk of galena, not worth the trouble of getting it out. From Wordnik.com. [The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado] Reference
This mineralization corresponds to the galena-sphalerite mineralization along the east edge of the Montrose Zone in DDH-Mon-2009-1 to 4. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference
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