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Name: Greenockite RRUFF ID: R070017 Ideal Chemistry: CdS Locality: Siglo XX Mine, Llallagua, Potosi Department, Bolivia Source: Mark Mauthner 1630 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Hexagonal tabular brick-red crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |
| Mineral Group: [ Wurtzite (20) ] | ||
| Quick search: [ All Greenockite samples (4) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R070017.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 4.079(7)Å b: 4.079(7)Å c: 6.63(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 95.56(7)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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| REFERENCES for Greenockite | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file] |
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Breithaupt J F A (1840) Greenockit, ein neues mineral, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 51, 507-510 [view file] |
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Brooke J, Connell A (1840) Der greenockit, ein neues mineral, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 51, 274-274 [view file] |
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Connell A (1840) Chemical examination of greenockite, or sulphuret of cadmium, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 28, 392-395 [view file] |
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Thompson T (1840) Notice of greenockite, a new mineral species of the order blende, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 28, 390-292 [view file] |
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Arguello C A, Rousseau D L, Porto S P S (1969) First-order Raman effect in wurtzite-type crystals, Physical Review, 181, 1351-1363 |
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Patterson D J (1985) Zincian greenockite in stratiform lead-zinc-silver mineralization at Lady Loretta, northwest Queensland, The Canadian Mineralogist, 23, 89-94 [view file] |
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Xu Y-N, Ching W Y (1993) Electronic, optical, and structural properties of some wurtzite crystals, Physical Review B - Condensed Matter, 48, 4335-4351 |
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Parnell J, Still J, Spinks S, Thayalan W, Bowden S (2014) Cadmium sulfide in a Mesoproterozoic terrestrial environment, Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 47-54 |
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