galena

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There's Jeff Bezos on the right and Paul Saville on the left looking for galena, which is the lead-silver thing.

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  1. noun A gray mineral, essentially PbS, the principal ore of lead.

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  • There's Jeff Bezos on the right and Paul Saville on the left looking for galena, which is the lead-silver thing. —  Stewart Brand on the Long Now
  • The last object was an earthenware galena-glazed moneybox shaped like a hen sitting on a crude nest. —  process 10
  • Within the Sundar Zone, higher grade massive to semi-massive sphalerite / galena / pyrite / chalcopyrite mineralization within broad zones of disseminated and brecciated mineralization was discovered. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • One to three percent disseminated sphalerite plus galena were encountered over the majority of the drill core, with narrower zones of semi-massive sulphides. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • We visited in succession the "robber’s cave," the "Pierre cintré" (a natural archway), and other wonders, and returned much pleased with the infinite variety of fantastic rocks, rushing waters, and hanging woods, which form this charming scene The lead-mines of Huelgoat have been worked since the fifteenth century for the silver which the lead-ore (galena) contains The right of working these mines and those of Poullaouen was given by Louis XIII. —  Brittany ; Its Byways
 

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  1. Latin galēna, lead ore.

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  1. from Latin galena, lead ore, dross of melted lead, from Greek γαλήνη, lead ore (only as in L.), also an antidote to poison, literally stillness (of the sea), calm, tranquillity.
 

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/gəˈlinə/
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