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Sphalerite Group

A material that is NOT an approved mineral species

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Metacinnabar

Mount Diablo Mine, Mount Diablo, Clayton, Contra Costa County, California, USA

Metacinnabar, etc.

El Entredicho Mine, Almadenejos, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Coloradoite, etc.

Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA

Metacinnabar

Mount Diablo Mine, Mount Diablo, Clayton, Contra Costa County, California, USA

Metacinnabar, etc.

El Entredicho Mine, Almadenejos, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Coloradoite, etc.

Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA

Metacinnabar

Mount Diablo Mine, Mount Diablo, Clayton, Contra Costa County, California, USA

Metacinnabar, etc.

El Entredicho Mine, Almadenejos, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

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About Sphalerite GroupHide

Formula:

A = Cd, Hg, Zn, Mn, Fe, Cu; X = S, Se, Te

Crystal System:

Isometric

The diamond structure has two interpenetrating cubic close packed carbon lattices. Each atom of theses lattices is tetrahedrally coordinated by 4 atoms of the other lattice. If one of these lattices is replaced by cations (A) and the other replaced by anions (X), where X = S, Se, Te we get the sphalerite group.

Although the members can be lab grown as solution series, geochemical segregation usually gives fairly pure end members.

Compare Wurtzite Group.

Unique IdentifiersHide

Mindat ID:

29333

Long-form identifier:

mindat:1:1:29333:2

GUID
(UUID V4):

7a07536d-696e-450c-b61c-baa9f03baee1

Chemistry of Sphalerite GroupHide

Mindat Formula:

AX

A = Cd, Hg, Zn, Mn, Fe, Cu; X = S, Se, Te

Crystallography of Sphalerite GroupHide

Crystal System:

Isometric

Class (H-M):

4 3m - Hextetrahedral

Morphology:

Composite and twinned crystals are common.

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ID	Species	Reference	Year	Locality	Temp (K)
0017666	Coloradoite	de Jong W (1926) Die Struktur des Tiemannit und Koloradoit. _cod_database_code 1010945 Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie 63 466-472	1926		293
0011528	Coloradoite	Wyckoff R W G (1963) Second edition. Interscience Publishers, New York, New York Crystal Structures 1 85-237	1963		293
0017442	Coloradoite	Zachariasen W (1926) Die Kristallstruktur der Telluride von Zink, Cadmium und Quecksilber _cod_database_code 1010537 Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 8 302-306	1926		293
0000070	Hawleyite	Traill R J, Boyle R W (1955) Hawleyite, isometric cadmium sulphide, a new mineral American Mineralogist 40 555-559	1955		293
0000111	Hawleyite	Skinner B J (1961) Unit-cell edges of natural and synthetic sphalerites American Mineralogist 46 1399-1411	1961	synthetic	293
0018121	Hawleyite	Ulrich F, Zachariasen W (1925) Ueber die Kristallstruktur des alpha und beta Cd S, sowie des Wurtzits _cod_database_code 1011260 Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie 62 260-273	1925		293
0011517	Hawleyite	Wyckoff R W G (1963) Second edition. Interscience Publishers, New York, New York Crystal Structures 1 85-237	1963		293
0018113	Hawleyite	Mueller W, Loeffler G (1933) Zur Kenntnis der Faerbung von gefaelltem Cadmiumsulfid _cod_database_code 1011251 Angewandte Chemie (German Edition) 46 538-539	1933		293
0018202	Metacinnabar	Lehmann W (1924) Roentgenographische Untersuchungen an natuerlichem und synthetischem Metacinnabarit (Hg S). _cod_database_code 1011368 Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie 60 379-413	1924		293
0011526	Metacinnabar	Wyckoff R W G (1963) Second edition. Interscience Publishers, New York, New York Crystal Structures 1 85-237	1963		293
0000110	Sphalerite	Skinner B J (1961) Unit-cell edges of natural and synthetic sphalerites American Mineralogist 46 1399-1411	1961	synthetic	293
0018098	Sphalerite	de Jong W (1927) Marmatit und christophit _cod_database_code 1011232 Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie 66 515-515	1927		293
0018099	Sphalerite	de Jong W (1927) Marmatit und christophit _cod_database_code 1011233 Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie 66 515-515	1927		293
0018328	Sphalerite	Nitta E, Kimata M, Hoshino M, Echigo T, Hamasaki S, Nishida N, Shimizu M, Akasak T (2008) Crystal chemistry of ZnS minerals formed as high-temperature volcanic sublimates: matraite identical with sphalerite Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences 103 145-151	2008	Iwodake volcano, Satsuma-Iwojima, Kyushu, SW Japan	293
0011535	Stilleite	Wyckoff R W G (1963) Second edition. Interscience Publishers, New York, New York Crystal Structures 1 85-237	1963		293
0000050	Tiemannite	Earley J W (1950) Description and syntheses of the selenide minerals American Mineralogist 35 337-364	1950		293
0018070	Tiemannite	de Jong W (1926) Die Struktur des Tiemannit und Koloradoit _cod_database_code 1011199 Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie 63 466-472	1926		293
0011527	Tiemannite	Wyckoff R W G (1963) Second edition. Interscience Publishers, New York, New York Crystal Structures 1 85-237	1963		293
0004582	Rudashevskyite	Britvin S N, Bogdanova A N, Boldyreva M M, Aksenova G Y (2008) Rudashevskyite, the Fe-dominant analogue of sphalerite, a new mineral: Description and crystal structure American Mineralogist 93 902-909	2008	Indarch meteorite	293
0004583	Rudashevskyite	Britvin S N, Bogdanova A N, Boldyreva M M, Aksenova G Y (2008) Rudashevskyite, the Fe-dominant analogue of sphalerite, a new mineral: Description and crystal structure American Mineralogist 93 902-909	2008	Indarch meteorite	293
0004584	Rudashevskyite	Britvin S N, Bogdanova A N, Boldyreva M M, Aksenova G Y (2008) Rudashevskyite, the Fe-dominant analogue of sphalerite, a new mineral: Description and crystal structure American Mineralogist 93 902-909	2008	Indarch meteorite	293
0019735	Browneite	Ma C, Beckett J R, Rossman G R (2012) Browneite, MnS, a new sphalerite-group mineral from the Zaklodzie meteorite American Mineralogist 97 2056-2059	2012	Zaklodzie meteorite	293
0011532	Browneite	Wyckoff R W G (1963) Second edition. Interscience Publishers, New York, New York Crystal Structures 1 85-237	1963		293
0018216	Browneite	Mehmed F, Haraldsen H (1938) Das magnetische Verhalten der allotropen Modifikationen des Mangan(II)- Sulfides Zeitschrift fur Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie 235 193-200	1938		293
0020262	Ishiharaite	Marquez-Zavalia M F, Galliski M A, Drabek M, Vymazalova A, Watanabe Y, Murakami H, Bernhardt H J (2015) Ishiharaite, (Cu,Ga,Fe,In,Zn)S, a new mineral from the Capillitas mine, Northwestern Argentina The Canadian Mineralogist 52 969-980	2015	Capillitas mine, Argentina	293

CIF Raw Data - click here to close

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Relationship of Sphalerite Group to other SpeciesHide

Group Members:

Browneite	MnS	Iso. 4 3m : F4 3m
Coloradoite	HgTe	Iso. 4 3m : F4 3m
Hawleyite	CdS	Iso. 4 3m : F4 3m
Ishiharaite	(Cu,Ga,Fe,In,Zn)S	Iso. 4 3m : F4 3m
Metacinnabar	HgS	Iso. 4 3m : F4 3m
Rudashevskyite	(Fe,Zn)S	Iso. 4 3m : F4 3m
Sphalerite	ZnS	Iso. 4 3m : F4 3m
Stilleite	ZnSe	Iso. 4 3m : F4 3m
Tiemannite	HgSe	Iso. 4 3m : F4 3m