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English: Geologic context: sphalerite crystals atop sucrosic dolostone, Lockport Dolomite, upper Niagaran Series, Wenlockian, upper Middle Silurian Locality: Millersville Quarry, northern side of the town of Millersville, southwestern Sandusky County, northwestern Ohio, USA. Photo taken by James St. John.
English: Sphalerite & barite from Tennessee, USA. (CMC RM 1140, Cincinnati Museum Center's rock & mineral collection, Cincinnati Museum of Natural History & Science, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) Locality: Cumberland Mine, Smith County, Tennessee, USA
Sphalerite is an important ore of zinc; around 95% of all primary zinc is extracted from sphalerite ore. [42] However, due to its variable trace element content, sphalerite is also an important source of several other metals such as cadmium, [ 43 ] gallium, [ 44 ] germanium, [ 45 ] and indium [ 46 ] which replace zinc.
Zinc is mined in outcrops found in Virginia. Mostly in Augusta, Rockingham, and Shenandoah counties. The largest is the Bowers-Campbell Mine. [10] Within the breccia zone galena is extracted along with small amounts of sphalerite and pyrite. [8] The Beekmantown is quarried in many locations for aggregate and rock. [11]
(The Center Square) – Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed a $17 million lawsuit Tuesday against a northern Ohio company that dates back six decades. The lawsuit says the United States Gypsum ...
Owens Quarry, a limestone quarry and crusher plant near Marion, Ohio, around which the community of Owens, Ohio grew. Ridgeway Site, in Hardin County, Ohio, a former archaeological site which, during excavation of its gravel, yielded numerous artifacts and buried bodies of the Glacial Kame culture, for which it is the type site.
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