Meneghinite
Mineral CuPb13Sb7S24
Take care.
- Contains lead: Wash your hands after handling it, keep it away from children, and don't make dust.
- Toxic: Wash your hands after handling it, don't lick or taste it, and don't make dust.
About it
Blackish lead-grey slender prisms, a lead-antimony sulfosalt with a little copper. Named for Giuseppe Meneghini; the classic source is the Bottino mine in Tuscany, Italy.
- Type
- Mineral
- Group
- Sulfosalt
- Formula
- CuPb13Sb7S24
- Hardness (Mohs)
- 2.5
- Specific gravity
- 6.3–6.5
- Streak
- black
- Lustre
- metallic
- Crystal system
- Orthorhombic
- Colours
- blackish lead grey
- Transparency
- opaque
- Cleavage and fracture
- perfect in one direction
Typical values: real specimens vary. For more, see mindat.org.