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chalcocite

NOUN
  1. a heavy grey mineral that is an ore of copper

How To Use chalcocite In A Sentence

  • Some specimen labels state that this coating is chalcocite, but, to the best of my knowledge, the identity has not been established by analysis.
  • At the Kingston mine, calcite occurred as thin massive veins cutting the lode and as modified rhombohedral crystals to 7 mm with inclusions of cuprite and chalcocite.
  • Hole LAV-135A was drilled on Section 1200NE and intersected mainly alternating granodiorite and tonalite containing weak to moderate chalcocite in the uppermost 170 metres. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • The copper in these deposits occurs as primary chalcopyrite (CuFeS2) or the important secondary copper mineral chalcocite (Cu2S). Rhenium
  • Of particular note were intersections from the potentially leachable chalcocite-covellite dominant mineralization in hole ALD-136 of 0.568% Cu over 178 metres including 78 metres of 0.692% Cu and in hole ALD-138 of 0.791% Cu over 60 metres. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • chalcocite" of our present metallurgical science, which is a sulphide containing very nearly eighty per cent. of copper. History of Phoenicia
  • The deposit hosts a large zone of near-surface, higher-grade chalcocite-covellite copper mineralization that we believe will be amenable to SX/EW, heap leach copper production. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • The copper mineralization within the upper 300 metres of the deposit includes both supergene digenite-covellite and hypogene chalcocite-bornite replacing earlier chalcopyrite. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • The copper in these deposits occurs as primary chalcopyrite (CuFeS2) or the important secondary copper mineral chalcocite (Cu2S). Rhenium
  • Microcrystals of azurite and goethite and a small number of microcrystals of chalcocite were also recovered.
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