Sphalerite is a very cool mineral. It is a beautiful, complex and diverse zinc sulfide (ZnS) mineral that also hosts a treasure trove of other critical elements. These include manganese, cadmium, ...

Zinc is the world’s fourth most consumed metal after iron, aluminum, and copper. Zinc metal is increasingly recognized as a critical mineral in many critical mineral lists globally due to its ...

THE mineral sphalerite is well known as a ready solvent, at elevated temperatures, for a number of other sulphides. On cooling, such a homogeneous solid solution unmixes, producing exsolution bodies ...

Sphalerite, zinc sulfide, is commonly found wherever metal ores are concentrated, including interesting places like seafloor black smokers. New work shows that this simple mineral has geochemical ...