seligmannite

TSNB314

Species

Title

seligmannite

Composition

PbCuAsS3

Crystal System

Orthorhombic

Status at Tsumeb

Questionable

Type Locality

No

Entry Type

Species TSNB314

Bartelke (1976; citing unpublished TCL reports from 1973) noted that seligmannite was identified from its optical properties as microscopic inclusions in copper sulphides.

Lombaard et al. (1986) included seligmannite as "very rare" in their list of Tsumeb minerals.

Hughes (1987), however, cautioned that seligmannite was originally identified under the ore microscope but never confirmed by analysis.

Questionable status is retained for seligmannite pending modern confirmation.

Undetermined