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Partial listing of all valid minerals that crystallize in the Hexagonal System. There is not enough known about them to permit assignment into a class.

System Class Name AXES Planes Center Hermann- Maugin Symbols
2-Fold 3-Fold 4-Fold 6-Fold
Hexagonal Trigonal Dipyramidal - 1 - - 1 - 6
Pyramidal - - - 1 - - 6
Dipyramidal - - - 1 1 yes 6/m
Ditrigonal Dipyramidal 3 1 - - 4 - 6m2
Dihexagonal Pyramidal - - - 1 6 - 6mm
Trapezohedral 6 - - 1 - - 622
Dihexagonal Dipyramidal 6 - - 1 7 yes 6/m 2/m 2/m

52 Minerals From the H-M Class Hexagonal - Unknown or Uncertain

Mineral Space Grp a c Z Vol (Ang3) Calc Dens
Afghanite P 63/mmc P 63mc or P 62c 12.7700 21.3500 4 3015.2 2.64
Arnhemite Unk 11.0600 16.7500 4 1774.4 2.32
Asbolane Unk 2.8230 9.6000 2 66.3 8.96
Bayankhanite Unk
Bellbergite P 63/mmc P 62c- P 63mc 13.2440 15.9880 1 2428.6 2.20
Blatonite Unk 15.7900 23.9300 36 5167.0 4.03
Braitschite-(Ce) Unk 12.1560 7.3770 1 944.0 2.86
Carraraite P 63/m or P 63 11.0560 10.6290 2 1125.2 1.98
Carrboydite Unk 18.2800 20.6800 4 5984.6 2.71
Chiluite P 6322 P 63/m P 63 8.9700 12.2070 1 850.6 3.98
Chlormagaluminite P 6/mcm P 6cm P 6c2 5.2900 15.4600 1 374.7 2.09
Cuzticite Unk 5.0450 14.6300 2 322.5 4.01
Feitknechtite Unk 8.6000 9.3000 16 595.7 3.92
Felsobanyaite Unk 22.5560 19.0320 24 8385.7 2.21
Feroxyhyte Unk 2.9300 4.6000 1 34.2 4.31
Fluocerite-(La) Unk 4.1350 7.2950 2 108.0 6.03
Goudeyite Unk 13.4720 5.9020 2 927.7 3.58
Guarinoite P 63/mP 63 or P 6322 8.3440 21.5990 3 1302.3 2.95
Hydrohonessite Unk 3.0900 10.8000 89.3 2.67
Hypercinnabar Unk 7.0100 14.1300 12 601.3 7.71
Jamborite Unk 3.0700 23.3000 3 190.2 2.91
Johnbaumite P 63/mP 63 9.7000 6.9300 2 564.7 3.73
Karnasurtite-(Ce) Unk. 10.6000 7.3000 3 710.3 3.16
Lourenswalsite Unk (pseudo-HEX) 5.2440 20.4900 1 488.0 3.19
Majakite Unk 6.0660 7.2000 6 229.4 10.42
Menshikovite P 63/mP 63 or P 6322 8.4060 6.7400 4 412.5 10.65
Mertieite-I Unk 15.0400 22.4100 18 4390.0 10.04
Minehillite P 63/mmm P 62c or P 63mc 9.7770 33.2930 1 2756.1 2.88
Mongshanite Unk
Morelandite P 63/mP 63 10.1690 7.3150 2 655.1 5.10
Mountkeithite Unk 10.6980 22.5450 2 2234.5 2.12
Nagelschmidtite Unk 5.3800 7.1000 1 178.0 3.48
Namuwite Unk 8.2900 10.5000 2 624.9 2.81
Nsutite Unk 9.6500 4.4300 12 357.3 4.87
Oregonite Unk 6.0830 7.1300 3 228.5 7.04
Orickite Unk 3.6950 6.1600 1 72.8 4.59
Pimelite Unk. 5.2560 14.8220 1 354.6 2.60
Plumbonacrite Unk 9.0760 24.9600 3 1780.6 7.13
Rancieite Unk 2.8600 7.5000 53.1 3.17
Saddlebackite Unk 4.2300 33.4000 2 517.6 7.60
Schulenbergite Hex 8.2490 7.1830 1 423.3 3.32
Takanelite Unk 8.6800 9.0000 3 587.2 3.56
Tocornalite Hex ?
Tranquillityite Unk 11.6900 22.2500 6 2633.2 4.69
Ungursaite P 63/mP 63 6.2180 36.8000 1 1232.2 6.87
Vozhminite Unk 17.4600 7.2000 18 1900.9 6.18
Wallkilldellite-(Fe) P 63/mmc P 63mc or P 62c 6.5480 23.2100 1 861.8 2.90
Wardsmithite Unk
Woodwardite Unk 6.0000 27.3000 2 851.1 2.58
Zemkorite P 63/mmc P 63mc P 62c- 10.0600 12.7200 8 1114.8 2.59
Zincaluminite Unk
Zn-Schulenbergite Hex 8.2920 7.2710 1 433.0 3.27

(* - Mineral Name is Not IMA Approved)
(! - New Dana Classification Number Has Been Changed or Added)
(? - IMA Discredited Mineral Species Name