sinneriten.
/ˈsɪnərʌɪt/ Mineralogy.
A sulpharsenite of copper, Cu6As4S9, found as brittle, grey, triclinic crystals.
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1964 Marumo & Nowacki in Schweiz. Min. u. petrogr. Mitt. XLIV. 440 In the course of the systematical study of the sulfosalt minerals from Lengenbach, Binnatal, a new mineral, a copper arsensulfide was found, which has some similarity to binnite and lautite... The mineral was named sinnerite in honour of the late Rudolf von Sinner, president of the Commission of the Naturhistorisches Museum Bern.
1975 Amer. Mineralogist 60 998/2 Both natural and synthetic crystals of sinnerite are complexly twinned.
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