Wurtzite Group

Wurtzite

Val Pulita Quarry, Torano quarrying basin, Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy

Greenockite, etc.

Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA

Greenockite

Bishopton tunnel, Bishopton, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK

Wurtzite

Val Pulita Quarry, Torano quarrying basin, Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy

Greenockite, etc.

Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA

Greenockite

Bishopton tunnel, Bishopton, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK

Wurtzite

Val Pulita Quarry, Torano quarrying basin, Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy

Greenockite, etc.

Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA

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Data courtesy of the American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database. Click on an AMCSD ID to view structure

ID	Species	Reference	Link	Year	Locality	Pressure (GPa)	Temp (K)
0019175	Cadmoselite	Freeman D K, Mair S L, Barnea Z (1977) The structure and Bijvoet ratios of cadmium selenide Acta Crystallographica A33 355-359		1977	synthetic	0	293
0011541	Cadmoselite	Wyckoff R W G (1963) Second edition. Interscience Publishers, New York, New York Crystal Structures 1 85-237		1963		0	293
0015178	Cadmoselite	Xu Y N, Ching W Y (1993) Electronic, optical, and structural properties of some wurtzite crystals Physical Review B48 4335-4351		1993		0	293
0017955	Greenockite	Ulrich F, Zachariasen W (1925) Ueber die Kristallstruktur des alpha- und $-beta Cd S, sowie des Wurtzits. _cod_database_code 1011054 Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie 62 260-273		1925		0	293
0011540	Greenockite	Wyckoff R W G (1963) Second edition. Interscience Publishers, New York, New York Crystal Structures 1 85-237		1963		0	293
0015177	Greenockite	Xu Y N, Ching W Y (1993) Electronic, optical, and structural properties of some wurtzite crystals Physical Review B48 4335-4351		1993		0	293
0000088	Wurtzite	Evans H T, McKnight E T (1959) New wurtzite polytypes from Joplin, Missouri American Mineralogist 44 1210-1218		1959		0	293
0000089	Wurtzite	Evans H T, McKnight E T (1959) New wurtzite polytypes from Joplin, Missouri American Mineralogist 44 1210-1218		1959		0	293
0000115	Wurtzite	Myer G H (1962) Hydrothermal wurtzite at Thomaston Dam, Connecticut American Mineralogist 47 977-979		1962	Thomaston Dam, Connecticut	0	293
0005074	Wurtzite	Mloszewski M J, Saha A K, Nuffield E W (1957) Manganoan ferroan wurtzite from Llallagua, Bolivia (II) The Canadian Mineralogist 6 136-139		1957	Llallagua, Bolivia	0	293
0005075	Wurtzite	Mloszewski M J, Saha A K, Nuffield E W (1957) Manganoan ferroan wurtzite from Llallagua, Bolivia (II) The Canadian Mineralogist 6 136-139		1957	Llallagua, Bolivia	0	293
0005544	Wurtzite	Chao G Y, Gault R A (1998) The occurence of two rare polytypes of wurtzite, 4H and 8H, at Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec The Canadian Mineralogist 36 775-778		1998	Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada	0	293
0010082	Wurtzite	Kisi E H, Elcombe M M (1989) U parameters for the wurtzite structure of ZnS and ZnO using powder neutron diffraction Acta Crystallographica C45 1867-1870		1989	synthetic	0	293
0010492	Wurtzite	Aminoff G (1923) Untersuchungen ueber die kristallstrukturen von wurtzit und rotnickelkies Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie 58 203-219		1923		0	293
0010493	Wurtzite	Ulrich F, Zachariasen W H (1925) Ueber die kristallstruktur des alpha- und beta-CdS, sowie des wurtzits Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie 62 260-273		1925	synthetic	0	293
0011556	Wurtzite	Wyckoff R W G (1963) Second edition. Interscience Publishers, New York, New York Crystal Structures 1 85-237		1963		0	293
0014934	Wurtzite	Kullerud G (1953) The Fe S - Zn S system. A geological thermometer Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 32 61-147		1953		0	293
0014935	Wurtzite	Kullerud G (1953) The Fe S - Zn S system. A geological thermometer Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 32 61-147		1953		0	293
0014998	Wurtzite	Ballentyne D W G, Roy B (1961) Electroluminescence and crystal structure in the alloy system ZnS - CdS Physica 27 337-341		1961	synthetic	0	293
0015169	Wurtzite	Yeh C, Lu Z W, Froyen S, Zunger A (1992) Zinc-blende-wurtzite polytypism in semiconductors Physical Review B46 10086-10097		1992		0	293
0015179	Wurtzite	Xu Y N, Ching W Y (1993) Electronic, optical, and structural properties of some wurtzite crystals Physical Review B48 4335-4351		1993		0	293
0015413	Wurtzite	Frondel C, Palache C (1948) Three new polymorphs of zinc sulfide Science 107 602-602		1948		0	293
0015414	Wurtzite	Frondel C, Palache C (1948) Three new polymorphs of zinc sulfide Science 107 602-602		1948		0	293
0010364	Rambergite	Eriksson L, Kalinowski M P (2001) Mn1-xFexS, x=0.05, an example of an anti-wurtzite structure Acta Crystallographica E57 i92-i93		2001	synthetic	0	293
0011549	Rambergite	Wyckoff R W G (1963) Second edition. Interscience Publishers, New York, New York Crystal Structures 1 85-237		1963		0	293
0019081	Buseckite	Ma C, Beckett J R, Rossman G R (2012) Buseckite, (Fe,Zn,Mn)S, a new mineral from the Zaklodzie meteorite American Mineralogist 97 1226-1233		2012	Zaklodzie, Poland	0	293

CIF Raw Data - click here to closedata_global _chemical_name_mineral 'Cadmoselite' loop_ _publ_author_name 'Freeman D K' 'Mair S L' 'Barnea Z' _journal_name_full 'Acta Crystallographica, Section A' _journal_volume 33 _journal_year 1977 _journal_page_first 355 _journal_page_last 359 _publ_section_title ; The structure and Bijvoet ratios of cadmium selenide ; _database_code_amcsd 0019175 _chemical_compound_source 'Synthetic' _chemical_formula_sum 'Cd Se' _cell_length_a 4.299 _cell_length_b 4.299 _cell_length_c 7.010 _cell_angle_alpha 90 _cell_angle_beta 90 _cell_angle_gamma 120 _cell_volume 112.198 _exptl_crystal_density_diffrn 5.665 _symmetry_space_group_name_H-M 'P 63 m c' loop_ _space_group_symop_operation_xyz 'x,y,z' '-x,-x+y,1/2+z' 'x-y,x,1/2+z' '-y,-x,z' '-y,x-y,z' 'x-y,-y,1/2+z' '-x,-y,1/2+z' 'x,x-y,z' '-x+y,-x,z' 'y,x,1/2+z' 'y,-x+y,1/2+z' '-x+y,y,z' loop_ _atom_site_label _atom_site_fract_x _atom_site_fract_y _atom_site_fract_z Cd 0.33333 0.66667 0.00000 Se 0.33333 0.66667 0.37679 loop_ _atom_site_aniso_label _atom_site_aniso_U_11 _atom_site_aniso_U_22 _atom_site_aniso_U_33 _atom_site_aniso_U_12 _atom_site_aniso_U_13 _atom_site_aniso_U_23 Cd 0.01849 0.01849 0.02243 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 Se 0.01532 0.01532 0.01215 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000

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