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Meneghinite

Year of discovery: 1852 (Bottino mine, Italy), 1963 (Japan)

Locality list: 4 localities of meneghinite

• Pb₁₃CuSb₇S₂₄
• [Pb²⁺₁₃][Cu⁺][Sb³⁺₇][S₂₄]^48-

• Class: Meneghinite group < Large 2D fragment Pb sulfosalts < Sulfosalt class
• Class: Sulfosalt

• Color: Dark gray
• Streak: Black
• Luster: Metallic
• Diaphaneity: Opaque

• Habit: Prismatic elongated to [001]
• Striation: [001]

• Cleavage: {010} Perfect (1 plane), Poor on {001} (1 plane)
• Hardness: 2.5
• Density: 6.4

• System: Orthorhombic
• Group: mmm, Pbnm
• Lattice: a=11.4, b=24.1, c=4.2

Etymology: Professor Giuseppi Meneghini (1811-1889), Italian researcher who collected this mineral for the first time.