Formula: Pb13CuSb7S24
Sulphosalt
Specific gravity: 6.35 to 6.37
Hardness: 2½
Streak: Black, shining
Colour: Blackish lead-grey
Environments
Metamorphic environments
Hydrothermal environments
Meneghinite is uncommon but widespread in hydrothermal veins, also in
contact metasomatic environments,
volcanogenic massive sulphide ore deposits, and
copper-molybdenum
porphyry. Associated minerals include
galena, chalcopyrite,
sphalerite, bournonite,
cubanite, pyrite,
pyrrhotite, boulangerite,
jamesonite, franckeite,
tetrahedrite and gudmundite.
(HOM).
Localities
At Neudorf, Harzgerode, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, meneghinite has been found as acicular crystals to 1 mm
in a jamesonite grain
(Minrec 43.1.40).
The type locality is the Bottino mine, Stazzema, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy.
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