List Sulphide Minerals 911 Metallurgist
To calculate the percentage of sulphur, which is the valuable constituent in this case, the atomic weights of iron and sulphur may be taken as 56 and 32, respectively. This mineral, then, is composed of 56 parts of iron and 2 x 32 = 64 parts of sulphur; the total number of parts considered is 56 + 64 = 120 and the proportion of sulphur is 64/ ...