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Earth Sciences question: Where is galena mined? where is galena mined ... Is galena mined? Is galena valuable? Who discoverd galena? Whre is galena mined? What is galena maid of? Where can you buy galena? What is gelena mined for? Where can galena be found? What can you do with galena?
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wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_is_galena_mined
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For the next 30 years, ore was mined from a series of surface tunnels and in 1917 the Day brothers started sinking what is now known as the Galena shaft. In 1946 ASARCO began work deepening the Galena shaft to the 3000 level.
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www.us-silver.com/s/GalenaMine.asp
www.us-silver.com/s/GalenaMine.asp
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Galena forms many interesting crystal shapes. Some cubic crystals have their edges cut by the partial octahedral growth, some octahedral crystals have their points flattened ... Large amounts of Galena are mined industrially mined in south-central and southwestern Wisconsin, where it goes towards the production of lead.
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www.minerals.net/mineral/sulfides/galena/galena.htm
www.minerals.net/mineral/sulfides/galena/galena.htm
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The most common ore mineral of lead mined in the United States is galena with the chemical symbol PbS. Galena is lead sulfide with a hardness of 2.5 on the Moh's scale - actually quite soft - but it is VERY heavy with a specific gravity of 7.4 to 7.6. To put that in perspective, it weighs about 700 pounds per cubic foot!
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www.rocksandminerals.com/lead.htm
www.rocksandminerals.com/lead.htm
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Galena is the main ore of lead and silver. It is a combination of lead and sulfur. Galena is found combined with zinc, copper, and silver. ... How and where is it mined? Galena is found with underground mining. It is found in the U.S.A [Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri], Germany, Peru, Mexico, Zambia, and England.
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library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00461/galena.htm
library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00461/galena.htm
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Galena is mined for lead: hardness.1.5; specific gravity 11.3 ... History of mining of galena in Tennessee Since the Revolutionary war lead has been mined locally to make bullets. There have never been mines in Tennessee that mined exclusively galena. It was mined with zinc in Jefferson and Smith Counties and with copper...
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www.nashvillefossils.com/resources/pages/galena.html
www.nashvillefossils.com/resources/pages/galena.html
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Galena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Galena is the natural mineral form of lead sulfide. It is the most important lead ore mineral. Galena is one of the most abundant and widely distributed sulfide minerals. It crystallizes in the cubic...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galena
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