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General Hawleyite Information

Help on Chemical  Formula: Chemical Formula: CdS
Help on Composition: Composition: Molecular Weight = 144.48 gm
   Cadmium  77.81 %  Cd
   Sulfur   22.19 %  S
           ______ 
           100.00 % 
Help on Empirical Formula: Empirical Formula: CdS
Help on Environment: Environment: As coatings on fine-grained sphalerite and siderite in vugs' probably of secondary origin, deposited from meteoric waters in vugs and along late fractures.
Help on IMA Status: IMA Status: Valid Species (Pre-IMA) 1955
Help on Locality: Locality: In Canada, in the Hector-Calumet mine, Keno-Galena Hill area, Yukon Territory. Link to MinDat.org Location Data.
Help on Name Origin: Name Origin: For Professor James Edwin Hawley (1897-1965), Canadian mineralogist, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Help on Synonym: Synonym: ICSD 29278
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Hawleyite

Comments: Shale coated with brilliant yellow hawleyite.
Location: Mco. la Plane de Bosc, France. Scale: 4 x 3.5 cm.
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Hawleyite Crystallography

Help on Cell Dimensions: Cell Dimensions: a = 5.818, Z = 4; V = 196.93 Den(Calc)= 4.87
Help on Crystal System: Crystal System: Isometric - HextetrahedralH-M Symbol (4 3m) Space Group: F43m
Help on X Ray Diffraction: X Ray Diffraction: By Intensity(I/Io): 3.36(1), 2.058(0.8), 1.753(0.6),
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Traill R J , Boyle R W , American Mineralogist , 40 (1955) p.555-559, Hawleyite, isometric cadmium sulphide, a new mineral

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Physical Properties of Hawleyite

Help on Cleavage: Cleavage: None
Help on Color: Color: Light yellow.
Help on Density: Density: 4.87
Help on Diaphaniety: Diaphaniety: Opaque
Help on Hardness: Hardness: 2.5-3 - Finger Nail-Calcite
Help on Luster: Luster: Metallic
Help on Streak: Streak: light yellow
 

Calculated Properties of Hawleyite

Help on Electron Density: Electron Density:

relectron=4.31 gm/cc
note: rHawleyite =4.87 gm/cc.

Help on Fermion Index Fermion Index Fermion Index = 0.19641
Boson Index = 0.80359
Help on Photoelectric: Photoelectric:

PEHawleyite = 212.93 barns/electron
U=PEHawleyite x relectron= 918.70 barns/cc.

Help on Radioactivity: Radioactivity: GRapi = 0 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units)

Hawleyite is Not Radioactive

 

Hawleyite Classification

Help on  Dana Class: Dana Class: 2.8.2.6 (2)Sulfides - Including Selenides and Tellurides
  (2.8)where Am Bn Xp, with (m+n):p=1:1
  (2.8.2)Sphalerite Group (Isometric: F4¯3m)
 
2.8.2.1 Sphalerite (Zn,Fe)S F43m 4 3m
 
2.8.2.2 Stilleite ZnSe F43m 4 3m
 
2.8.2.3 Metacinnabar HgS F43m 4 3m
 
2.8.2.4 Tiemannite HgSe F43m 4 3m
 
2.8.2.5 Coloradoite HgTe F43m 4 3m
 
2.8.2.6 Hawleyite CdS F43m 4 3m
Help on  Strunz Class: Strunz Class: II/C.01-20 II - Sulfides and sulphosalts
  II/C - Sulfides with metal: sulfur, selenium and tellurium = 1:1
  II/C.01 - Sphalerite group and related compounds (with Leutite)
 
II/C.01-10 Sphalerite (Zn,Fe)S F43m 4 3m
 
II/C.01-20 Hawleyite CdS F43m 4 3m
 
II/C.01-30 Metacinnabar HgS F43m 4 3m
 
II/C.01-40 Stilleite ZnSe F43m 4 3m
 
II/C.01-50 Tiemannite HgSe F43m 4 3m
 
II/C.01-60 Coloradoite HgTe F43m 4 3m
 
II/C.01-70 Polhemusite (Zn,Hg)S P 4/n 4/m
 

Other Hawleyite Information

Help on References: References: NAME( AntBidBlaNic1) PHYS. PROP.(Enc. of Minerals,2nd ed.,1990)
Help on See Also: See Also: Links to other databases for Hawleyite :
1 -Am. Min. Crystal Structure Database 2 -Athena 3 - Crocoite.com Mineral Locations 4 - Franklin Minerals(Dunn) 5 -Google Images 6 -Google Scholar 7 -Handbook of Mineralogy (UofA) 8 -MinDAT 9 -MinMax(Deutsch) 10 -MinMax(English) 11 -Mineralienatlas (Deutsch) 12 -QUT Mineral Atlas 13 - WWW-MINCRYST

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CdS
Dana No: 2.8.2.6 Strunz No: II/C.01-20
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