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Sulfur was first observed from Sterling Hill by Parker and Smith (1984) and has been subsequently confirmed by the writer employing X-ray diffraction methods. Parker and Smith reported sulfur as minute 3-5 mm light-yellow aggregates associated with cerussite in highly altered galena in franklinite- willemite-calcite  ore. Sulfur is exceedingly rare locally; it occurs in a few alteration assemblages.

 

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CHAPTER 20. ELEMENTS