Hawleyite
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What is Hawleyite?
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.
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Physical Properties
- Color
- Bright yellow
- Hardness (Mohs)
- 2.5 - 3
- Density
- 4.87 g/cm³
Chemical Properties
- Chemical Formula
- CdS
- Elements
- Cd, S
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