Haycockite

Maurice H. Haycock

Formula:

Cu₄Fe₅S₈

Colour:

Brass yellow

Hardness:

4½

Specific Gravity:

4.33 (Calculated)

Crystal System:

Orthorhombic

Member of:

Talnakhite Group

Name:

Named in honor of Maurice Hall Haycock (1 September 1900, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada - 23 December 1988, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), mineralogist and former head of the Mineralogy Section, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa, Ontario. Haycock gave a brief description of the mineral, in an unpublished report, as a graduate student at Princeton in 1931.

Type Locality:

ⓘ Mooihoek Farm 255 KT, Burgersfort, Sekhukhune District, Limpopo, South Africa

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ID	Species	Reference	Link	Year	Locality	Pressure (GPa)	Temp (K)
0009539	Haycockite	Rowland J F, Hall S R (1975) Haycockite, Cu4Fe5S8: a superstructure in the chalcopyrite series Acta Crystallographica B31 2105-2112		1975	Lydenburg District, Transvaal, South Africa	0	293

CIF Raw Data - click here to closedata_global _chemical_name_mineral 'Haycockite' loop_ _publ_author_name 'Rowland J F' 'Hall S R' _journal_name_full 'Acta Crystallographica, Section B' _journal_volume 31 _journal_year 1975 _journal_page_first 2105 _journal_page_last 2112 _publ_section_title ; Haycockite, Cu4Fe5S8: a superstructure in the chalcopyrite series ; _database_code_amcsd 0009539 _chemical_compound_source 'Lydenburg District, Transvaal, South Africa' _chemical_formula_sum 'Cu4 Fe5 S8' _cell_length_a 10.705 _cell_length_b 10.734 _cell_length_c 31.630 _cell_angle_alpha 90 _cell_angle_beta 90 _cell_angle_gamma 90 _cell_volume 3634.523 _exptl_crystal_density_diffrn 4.331 _symmetry_space_group_name_H-M 'P 2 2 2' loop_ _space_group_symop_operation_xyz 'x,y,z' '-x,y,-z' 'x,-y,-z' '-x,-y,z' loop_ _atom_site_label _atom_site_fract_x _atom_site_fract_y _atom_site_fract_z _atom_site_U_iso_or_equiv Cu1 0.25700 0.00000 0.00000 0.02001 Cu2 0.25700 0.50000 0.00000 0.02001 Cu3 0.25000 0.00000 0.50000 0.02001 Cu4 0.24800 0.50000 0.50000 0.02001 Cu5 -0.00500 0.24900 0.16400 0.02368 Cu6 0.48900 0.25000 0.16300 0.02368 Cu7 0.00200 0.24900 0.33600 0.02368 Cu8 0.49800 0.25000 0.33600 0.02368 Cu9 0.25200 0.24500 0.08600 0.02128 Cu10 0.24600 0.74800 0.08600 0.02128 Cu11 0.24900 0.25100 0.41400 0.02128 Cu12 0.25100 0.75100 0.41500 0.02128 Cu13 0.00000 0.00000 0.25000 0.01925 Cu14 0.50000 0.00000 0.25000 0.01925 Cu15 0.00000 0.50000 0.25000 0.01925 Cu16 0.50000 0.50000 0.25000 0.01925 Fe1 0.00000 0.25500 0.00000 0.01127 Fe2 0.50000 0.25900 0.00000 0.01127 Fe3 0.00000 0.24700 0.50000 0.01127 Fe4 0.50000 0.25200 0.50000 0.01127 Fe5 0.25100 -0.00100 0.16500 0.00925 Fe6 0.24800 0.48800 0.16600 0.00925 Fe7 0.25100 -0.00200 0.33500 0.00925 Fe8 0.24900 0.49900 0.33400 0.00925 Fe9 0.00000 0.00000 0.08600 0.01102 Fe10 0.50000 0.00000 0.08600 0.01102 Fe11 0.00000 0.50000 0.08600 0.01102 Fe12 0.50000 0.50000 0.08600 0.01102 Fe13 0.00000 0.00000 0.41400 0.01102 Fe14 0.50000 0.00000 0.41400 0.01102 Fe15 0.00000 0.50000 0.41400 0.01102 Fe16 0.50000 0.50000 0.41400 0.01102 Fe17 0.25100 0.24900 0.25000 0.00899 Fe18 0.25000 0.75000 0.25000 0.00899 Fe19 0.25100 -0.00100 0.25000 0.01026 Fe20 0.24900 0.50000 0.25000 0.01026 Fe21 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.01570 Fe22 0.50000 0.50000 0.00000 0.01570 Fe23 0.50000 0.00000 0.50000 0.01570 Fe24 0.00000 0.50000 0.50000 0.01570 S1 0.11900 0.12700 0.04200 0.01267 S2 0.38000 0.87000 0.04200 0.01267 S3 0.12300 0.62800 0.04200 0.01267 S4 0.37900 0.37300 0.04200 0.01267 S5 0.12400 0.86900 0.45800 0.01267 S6 0.37500 0.13200 0.45800 0.01267 S7 0.12600 0.36900 0.45800 0.01267 S8 0.37600 0.63000 0.45800 0.01267 S9 0.12800 0.87600 0.12500 0.01267 S10 0.37100 0.12400 0.12500 0.01469 S11 0.12900 0.37600 0.12500 0.01469 S12 0.37300 0.62300 0.12500 0.01469 S13 0.12800 0.12200 0.37500 0.01469 S14 0.37400 0.87400 0.37500 0.01469 S15 0.12800 0.62400 0.37500 0.01469 S16 0.37200 0.37700 0.37500 0.01469 S17 0.12600 0.12200 0.20800 0.01102 S18 0.37800 0.87600 0.20800 0.01102 S19 0.12300 0.62300 0.20800 0.01102 S20 0.37300 0.38000 0.20800 0.01102 S21 0.12600 0.87500 0.29200 0.01102 S22 0.37600 0.12400 0.29200 0.01102 S23 0.12600 0.37700 0.29200 0.01102 S24 0.37400 0.62500 0.29200 0.01102

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- This locality has map coordinates listed. - This locality has estimated coordinates. ⓘ - Click for further information on this occurrence. ? - Indicates mineral may be doubtful at this locality. - Good crystals or important locality for species. - World class for species or very significant. (TL) - Type Locality for a valid mineral species. (FRL) - First Recorded Locality for everything else (eg varieties). Struck out - Mineral was erroneously reported from this locality. Faded * - Never found at this locality but inferred to have existed at some point in the past (eg from pseudomorphs.)

All localities listed without proper references should be considered as questionable.

Atlantic Ocean
Mid-Atlantic Ridge complex ⓘ Romache offset zone ?	Econ Geol (1976) 71:1515-1525
Cyprus
Nicosia District Apliki ⓘ Apliki Mine	Antivachis, D.N. (2015) The geology of the northern part of the apliki Cyprus-type ore deposit. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, vol. XLIX, 4 - 28.
India
Rajasthan Jaipur district Sikar District Khetri ⓘ Khetri Mines (Ketri Mine)	Ahmed, M., Shaif, M., Siddiquie, F. N., & Khan, R. (2018). Mode of Occurrence and Mineralogy of Northern Khetri Copper Deposits, Jhunjhunu District, Rajasthan. Natural Resources, 2018, 9, 389-403
Japan
Shizuoka Prefecture ⓘ Shibukawa	Onuki et al (1981) Ganseki-Koubutsu-Koshogaku Zasshi, 76, 372-375.
Mexico
Sonora Moctezuma Municipality ⓘ Moctezuma	Lapis 2001(1), 11-40
Poland
Lesser Poland Voivodeship Kraków County Gmina Krzeszowice ⓘ Niedźwiedzia Góra quarry	Piestrzyński A., Skamra J., Marszałek M. 1999: Sulphide mineralization in diabases from Niedźwiedzia Góra near Cracow. Mineralogia Polonica, vol. 30, no. 2, 81-85
Lower Silesian Voivodeship ⓘ Lubin–Sieroszowice mining district	Piestrzyński, A., & Pieczonka, J. (2012). Low temperature ore minerals associations in the Kupferschiefer type deposit, Lubin–Sieroszowice mining district, SW Poland. Мінералогічний збірник, (2), 59-66.
Lubin County ⓘ Lubin	Kucha H. 2007: Mineralogia kruszcowa i geochemia ciała rudnego złoża Lubin-Sieroszowice. Biuletyn PIG, vol. 423, pp. 77-94
Podlaskie Voivodeship Suwałki County ⓘ Suwałki Massif	Nejbert K. 2008: Mineralogy of sulphides in mafic rocks of the Suwałki Anorthosite Massif, NE Poland. Mineralogia - Special Papers, vol. 32, p. 116
ⓘ Krzemianka	Kucha H. 1982: Haycockite and mooihoekite from titanomagnetite ore, Krzemianka, Poland. Mineralogia Polonica, vol. 13, no 2, 27-32.
Russia
Krasnoyarsk Krai Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District Kureika river Dzheltul'skii massif (Dzhaltul) ⓘ Dzhaltul Mount	Shvedov, G. I., & Barkov, A. Y. (2015). Oulankaite, a Pd-rich stannosulphotelluride, and associated platinum-group minerals from the Dzhaltul microgabbroic intrusion, Krasnoyarskiy kray, Russia. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie-Abhandlungen: Journal of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 192(3), 229-237.
Republic of Karelia ⓘ Burakovskii Layered Complex	Grokhovskaya, T. L., Lapina, M. I., Ganin, V. A., & Grinevich, N. G. (2005). PGE mineralization in the Burakovsk Layered Complex, Southern Karelia, Russia. Geology of Ore Deposits C/C of Geologiia Rudnykh Mestorozhdenii, 47(4), 283.
South Africa (TL)
Limpopo Sekhukhune District Burgersfort ⓘ Mooihoek Farm 255 KT (TL)	Cabri, L.J. & Hall, S.R. (1972) Mooihoekite and haycockite, two new copper-iron sulfides and their relationship to chalcopyrite and talnakhite. American Mineralogist 57, 689-708; Rowland, J.F. & Hall, S.R. (1973) The crystal structure of haycockite, Cu4Fe5S8. American Mineralogist, 58, 1110 abstract????; Rowland, J.F. & Hall, S.R. (1975) Haycockite, Cu4Fe5S8: a superstructure in the chalcopyrite series. Acta crystallographica B31, 2105-2112; Daltry, V.D.C., (1997) Mineralogy of South Africa: Type-Mineral Species and Type-Mineral Names, Council For Geoscience, Geological Survey of South Africa, Handbook 15.
North West Bojanala Platinum District Municipality Rustenburg Rustenburg Town & Townlands Mine ⓘ Townlands pipe	Economic Geology (1990) 85:537-555
USA
Minnesota ⓘ Duluth Gabbro	Anthony, Bideaux, Bladh, Nichols: "Handbook of Mineralogy", Vol. 1, 1990
St. Louis Co. Ely-Hoyt Lakes Area ⓘ Birch Lake Deposit	Good, D., Borysenko, J., McBride, J., Walford, P., Smyk, M., Hollings, P., ... & Corkery, J. (2010) Cu-Ni-PGE Deposits in Mafic Intrusions of the Lake Superior Region June 24-30, 2010. 11th International Platinum Symposium