LIU Tie-geng, YE Len, SHEN Neng-pieng, ZHOU Jia-xi

（Institute of Geochenistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Giuyang 550002, China）

Abstract: It is widely believed that black sphalerite has low content of cadmiumr, while light sphalerite has high content of cadmium. In this study, Have 40 and 385 groups of Cd content data for sphalerite with different colors from 34 domestic and 74 foreign deposits, respectively were studied. Results show that Cd content was not significantly different between black sphalerite and light colored sphalerite or Cd content in the black sphalerite was slightly higher light colour sphalerite.

Keywords: sphalerite; Cd content; color; significant relationship

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ACTA MINERALOGICA SINICA Vol. 35, No. 1, 2015, Page 51-55