Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A deep red to black silver ore with composition Ag3SbS3.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An important ore of silver, consisting of the sulphid of silver and antimony.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Ruby silver; dark red silver ore. It is a sulphide of antimony and silver, occurring in rhombohedral crystals or massive, and is of a dark red or black color with a metallic adamantine luster.
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- noun mineralogy Ruby
silver ; dark red silver ore. It is a sulphide ofantimony and silver, Ag3SbS3, occurring inrhombohedral crystals or massive, and is of a dark red or black color with a metallicadamantine luster; it is an important silverore
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Other minerals which yield a minor percentage of the total silver produced are the silver-antimony sulphides, pyrargyrite or
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It also occurs combined with sulphur (as in argentite), with sulphur and antimony (as in stephanite or brittle silver ore, and in pyrargyrite or ruby silver), and with copper, sulphur, antimony, and arsenic, as in polybasite.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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Mineralogical analysis shows that silver is contained, partly or fully, in the silver bearing minerals pyrargyrite, naumannite a directly cyanide soluble silver mineral and selenian miargyrite.
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Vortex gold and silver mineralization is associated with a volcanic rock hydrothermal breccia and the silver mineralization is primarily contained within the mineral pyrargyrite.
Allied Nevada Drills 166 Meters Grading 1.51 g/t Gold Equivalent at Hycroft - Yahoo! Finance 2010
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All holes at Santo Nino encountered broad zones of well developed silicified breccias with widespread pyrargyrite
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