Minerals

🟡Sulfide Minerals

Sulfides

~600 species

Minerals where metals bond with sulfur. Many important metal ores are sulfides. Often have metallic luster and are frequently mistaken for native metals.

Source: Wikipedia

💡Pyrite is called 'fool's gold' because prospectors constantly mistook it for real gold.

13 minerals

🪨 galena 🪨 alabandite 🪨 sphalerite 🔴 cinnabar 🟡 pyrite 🪨 marcasite 🟡 chalcopyrite 🪨 proustite 🪨 pyrargyrite 🪨 stibnite 🪨 bismuthinite 🟡 orpiment 🔴 realgar

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