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Hawleyite

hawleyite

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Overview

Hawleyite is a rare sulfide mineral in the sphalerite group, dimorphous and easily confused with greenockite. Chemically, it is cadmium sulfide, and occurs as a bright yellow coating on sphalerite or siderite in vugs, deposited by meteoric water. It was discovered in 1955 in the Hector-Calumet mine, Keno-Galena Hill area, Yukon Territory and named in honour of mineralogist James Edwin Hawley (1897–1965), a professor at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada.

Identification characteristics

  • Mohs hardness 3.5

Scientific references

  1. Hawleyite — Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q411830 Link
  2. Hawleyite — Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawleyite Link