Sulfides minerals

Acanthite

辉银矿

Acanthite is the principal silver-bearing sulfide and the most economically significant ore of silver. It is the low-temperature monoclinic polymorph of Ag2S;…

Bornite

斑铜矿

Cu₅FeS₄

Bornite (Cu₅FeS₄) is one of the most vivid copper sulfides and a major copper ore. Fresh surfaces show a bronze-pink metallic color,…

Boulangerite

硫锑铅矿

Boulangerite is a lead-antimony sulfosalt closely related to jamesonite — both species form fibrous metallic aggregates and commonly co-occur. Boulangerite typically appears…

Bournonite

车轮矿

Bournonite is a lead-copper-antimony sulfosalt classically known as "cogwheel ore" (车轮矿) for its distinctive cyclic-twinned crystals that look like geared wheels. It…

Calaverite

碲金矿

Calaverite is a gold telluride and one of the only common natural compounds of gold (alongside sylvanite and native gold itself). It…

Chalcocite

辉铜矿

Chalcocite is one of the richest copper sulfide ores (~80% Cu by mass) and a critical secondary-enrichment-zone mineral above many copper porphyry…

Chalcopyrite

黄铜矿

CuFeS₂

Chalcopyrite is the most important copper ore mineral on Earth and the most common copper sulfide. Fresh crystals show brassy-yellow metallic faces;…

Cinnabar

辰砂

HgS

Cinnabar (HgS) is the primary ore of mercury and one of the most visually arresting minerals on Earth — its scarlet-to-vermilion crystals…

Cobaltite

辉砷钴矿

CoAsS

Cobaltite (CoAsS) is the cobalt arsenide-sulfide — pyrite-group structurally and visually similar to pyrite but with diagnostic cobalt content. It forms in…

Covellite

铜蓝

Covellite is a copper sulfide famous for its electric indigo-blue color and brilliant peacock iridescent tarnish — easily one of the most…

Enargite

硫砷铜矿

Enargite is a copper-arsenic sulfosalt that serves as a major Cu-As ore mineral in high-sulfidation epithermal and porphyry-related deposits. It typically forms…

Jamesonite

脆硫锑铅矿

Jamesonite is a lead-iron-antimony sulfosalt that crystallizes as fine, hair-thin acicular needles, sometimes forming felted matted masses ("feather ore"). It is one…

Marcasite

白铁矿

FeS₂

Marcasite (FeS₂) is the orthorhombic dimorph of pyrite (cubic FeS₂) — same chemistry, different crystal structure. It forms in sedimentary low-temperature environments…

Millerite

针镍矿

NiS

Millerite (NiS) is nickel sulfide forming distinctive bronze-yellow acicular needles — sometimes capillary-thin and meters-long. It crystallizes in low-temperature hydrothermal vug fillings…

Molybdenite

辉钼矿

MoS₂

Molybdenite (MoS₂) is the principal ore of molybdenum and one of the softest and most slippery sulfide minerals — its hexagonal layered…

Orpiment

雌黄

As₂S₃

Orpiment (As₂S₃) is the bright lemon-yellow to golden arsenic sulfide companion of realgar. Its name comes from Latin "auripigmentum" — gold pigment…

Proustite

淡红银矿

Proustite — "light ruby silver" — is a silver-arsenic sulfosalt celebrated for its translucent ruby-red to scarlet color. Together with pyrargyrite ("dark…

Pyrargyrite

深红银矿

Pyrargyrite — "dark ruby silver" — is the antimony analogue of proustite. The pair forms the classic "ruby silver" sulfosalts of historic…

Pyrrhotite

磁黄铁矿

Fe(1-x)S

Pyrrhotite (Fe₁₋ₓS) is non-stoichiometric iron sulfide — chemically variable Fe(1-x)S — and is unique among common sulfides for its magnetism (the only…

Realgar

雄黄

As₄S₄

Realgar (As₄S₄) is a vivid red-orange arsenic sulfide that crystallizes from low-temperature hydrothermal and volcanic fumarolic systems. It forms paired with orpiment…

Sphalerite

闪锌矿

(Zn,Fe)S

Sphalerite is the world's primary ore of zinc and the source of nearly all collectable Zn-bearing crystal specimens. Its (Zn,Fe)S chemistry produces…

Sylvanite

碲金银矿

Sylvanite is the gold-silver telluride, the silver-bearing partner to calaverite. Together with calaverite, it forms the classic gold-mineral pair of the Romanian…

Tetrahedrite

黝铜矿

Tetrahedrite is a copper-antimony sulfosalt that forms the antimony end-member of an extensive solid-solution series with tennantite (As-end). It is the most…

Stibnite

辉锑矿

Sb₂S₃

Sb₂S₃ · Orthorhombic · Mohs 2

Pyrite

黄铁矿

FeS2

FeS2 . Isometric (Cubic) . Mohs 6-6.5

Arsenopyrite

毒砂矿

FeAsS

FeAsS . Monoclinic . Mohs 5.5-6

Galena

方铅矿

PbS

PbS . Isometric (Cubic) . Mohs 2.5

Bismuthinite

辉铋矿

Bi2S3

Bi2S3 . Orthorhombic . Mohs 2