hutchinsonite Min.
(ˈhʌtʃɪnsənaɪt)
[f. the name of Arthur Hutchinson (1866–1937), English mineralogist + -ite1.]
A sulpharsenite of lead and thallium (Tl, Pb)2As5S9, often with some copper and silver, that occurs as small red orthorhombic crystals.
| 1905 R. H. Solly in Mineral. Mag. XIV. 72 Hutchinsonite usually occurs as very small crystals in the white dolomite, or is closely associated with sartorite and rathite. 1954 Mineral Abstr. XII. 452 Hutchinsonite..is now described from the Segen Gottes Pb-Zn mine at Wiesloch, where it occurs as minute (usually 1µ) needles embedded in calcite, blende, pyrite, &c., with associated Pb sulpharsenites. |