Charles Murray Cathcart
The naming of the mineral is often attributed to Henry James Brooke and Arthur Connell in 1840. The original description was actually made by Robert Jameson who first described greenockite, and the first description was in “his journal”: The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal.
Where is Greenockite found?
Lord Greenock announced the discovery of Greenockite as a new mineral from the excavation of the Bishopton tunnel, near Port Glasgow in Scotland.
Is Greenockite rare?
Greenockite is a rare cadmium bearing metal sulfide mineral consisting of cadmium sulfide (CdS) in crystalline form. ... It occurs as massive encrustations and as hemimorphic six-sided pyramidal crystals which vary in color from a honey yellow through shades of red to brown.
