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Mindat Short Description

Galena Group.

Galena is the primary ore mineral of lead. Worked for its lead content as early as 3000 BC, it is found in ore veins with sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, tennantite-tetrahedrite, etc. and in skarns, as well as in sedimentary rocks wh...

Geoscience Ontology Status Notes

Mineral name has been known since antiquity and predates any formal descriptive publication

IMA Formula (from Mindat)

PbS

RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)

Pb²⁺S^2-

Additional References

• http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/galena.pdf

• http://www.webmineral.com/data/Galena.shtml