Optical Spectra of Sphalerite, ZnS

1960s

• Low W, Weger M (1960) Paramagnetic Resonance and Optical Spectra of Divalent Iron in Cubic Fields. II. Experimental Results. Physical Review 118, 1130-1136.
• Gumlich HE, Schulz HJ (1966) Optical transitions in ZnS type crystals containing cobalt. Journal of Physcs and Chemistry of Solids 27, 187-195. 
• Manning PG (1966) Cu(II) in octahedral sites in sphalerite. Canadian Mineralogist 8, 567-571. 
• Slack GA, Ham FS, Chrenko RM (1966) Optical absorption spectra of tetrahedral Fe²⁺ (3d⁶) in cubic ZnS, CdTe and MgAl₂O₄. Physical Review 152, 376-402. 
• Manning PG (1967) Absorption spectra of Fe(III) in octahedral sites in sphalerite. Canadian Mineralogist 9, 57-64. 
• Marfunin AS, Platonov AN, Fedorov VE (1967) Iron(II) optical spectrum in sphalerite. Fizika Tverdogo Tela (Sankt-Peterburg) 9, 3616-3618. (In Russian)
• Manning PG (1968) Optical absorption studies of the mixed-ion (Cu and Al) doping of sphalerite. The Canadian Mineralogist 9, 429 -433.
  
• Marfunin AS, Platonov AN, Fedorov VE (1968) Optical spectrum of Fe²⁺ in sphalerite. Soviet Physics solid State, USSR. 9, 2847- (In Russian)
• Platonov AN, Marfunin AS (1968) Optical absorption spectra of sphalerites. Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva  97, 257-72. (In Russian)
• Platonov AN, Marfunin AS (1968) Optical Absorption spectra of sphalerites. Geochemistry International USSR 5, 245- (In Russian)

1970s

• Platonov AN, Marfunin AS (1971) Isomorphous replacements in sphalerites based on spectroscopic data. Vinogradov AP ed. Probl. Izomorfnykh Zameshchenii At. Krist., 268-81. (In Russian)
• Galii SA, Platonov AN, Tarashchan AN (1974) Find of violet sphalerites. Dopovidi Akademii Nauk Ukrains'koi RSR, Seriya B:  Geologiya, Geofizika, Khimiya ta Biologiya 36, 488-91. (In Ukrainian) 
• Vaughan DJ, Tossell JA, Johnson KH (1974) Bonding of ferrous iron to sulfur and oxygen in tetrahedral coordination.  Comparative study using SCF Xα scattered wave molecular orbital calculations. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 38, 993-1005.  
• Minko OE, Makeev AB (1976) Optical absorption and luminescence spectra of some minerals from Vaigach Island and Amderma deposits. Fiz. Svoistva Miner. Gorn. Porod (1976), 104-9. (In Russian)  
• Yushkin NP, Platonov AN, Tarashchan AN (1976) Optical properties and luminescence of a natural manganous sphalerite. Ezhegodnik Instituta Geologii Komi Filiala Akademii Nauk SSSR (1976), 87-92. (In Russian)
• Wood BJ, Strens RGJ (1979) Diffuse reflectance spectra and optical properties of some sulfides and related minerals. Mineralogical Magazine 43, 509-18.

1980s

• Mincheva-Stefanova I, Platonov AN, Ostafiichuk IM, Matsyuk SS (1983) Colorimetric study of iron-poor sphalerites from some Bulgarian ore deposits. Geokhimiya, Mineralogiya i Petrologiya 17, 29-40. (In Bulgarian)
• Henn U, Hofmann C (1985) Green sphalerite from Zaire. Journal of Gemmology 19:416-418.
• Cervelle B, Cesbron F, Drin N (1989) Determination, par microréflectométrie diffuse, de la concentration en Co²⁺ tétraédrique dans les sphalérites. European Journal of Mineralogy 1, 127-134.

1990s

• Li D, Peng M (1990) Absorption spectra and coloration of sphalerite. Kuangwu Xuebao 10, 29-34. (In Chinese)
• Rager H, Amthauer G, Bernroider M, Schürmann K (1996) Colour, crystal chemistry and mineral association of a green sphalerite from Steinperf, Dill syncline, FRG. European Journal of Mineralogy 8, 1191-1198. 

2010s

• Seshamaheswaramma K, Reddy GU, Reddy AV, Reddy SL, Frost RL, Endo T (2011) EPR and optical absorption spectral studies on sphalerite mineral. Spectrochimica Acta Part A; Molecular and Biomelecular Spectroscopy 81, 308-312.
• Fridrichová J, Bačik P, Malíčková I, Illášová L, Pulisová Z, Milovaká S (2017) Optical-spectroscopic study of gem sphalerite from Banská Štiavnica and Hodruša Hámre. Esemestnik, 6-9.

2020s

• Fridrichová J, Bačik P, Štubňa J (2020) Sphalerite from Slovakia. The Journal of Gemmology 37, 12-13.
• Bačik P, Fridrichová J, Rybnikova O, Štubňa J, Illášová Ĺ, Škoda R, Vaculovič T, Pulišová Z, Sečkár P (2023) Crystal-Chemical and Spectroscopic Study of Gem Sphalerite from Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia. Minerals 2023, 13, 109. https://doi.org/10.3390/min13010109