Where it forms, where it's found
6recorded occurrences
Safety & handling
Physical
- Transparency
- Opaque
- Fracture
- Irregular/Uneven
Crystallography
- Space group
- P-3
- Cell parameters
- a = 7.1331(4) Å · c = 7.3042(5) Å
- Unit cell volume
- 321.86 ų
- Comment
Space group and cell params from Radosavljević-Mihajlović (2017).
Crystal structure
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- Domeykite-beta
- Trigodomeykiet
- β-Domeykite
In other languages
- German
- Domeykit-β · Trigodomeykit · β-Domeykit
- Italian
- domeykite-β
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.2.AA
- 2Sulfides and SulfosaltsClass
- 2.AAlloysDivision
- 2.AAAlloys of metalloids with Cu, Ag, AuGroup
- 2.AATrigodomeykiteSpecies
Group, growth & confusion
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- 1938Steenberg, B. (1938) The crystal structure of Cu3As and Cu3P. Arkiv för Kemi, Mineralogi och Geologi, A 12(2), 1–15.
- 1949Michejev, V.I. (1949) On alpha-, beta- and gamma-domeykite. Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva: 78: 3-7.
- 1960Heyding, R. D., Despault, G. J. G. (1960) The copper/arsenic system and the copper arsenide minerals. Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 38 (12). 2477-2481 doi:10.1139/v60-335 DOI: 10.1139/v60-335
- 1962Berry, L. G., Thompson, R. M. (1962) X-Ray Powder Data for Ore Minerals: the Peacock Atlas. GSA Memoir 85. Geological Society of America doi:10.1130/mem85DOI: 10.1130/mem85
- 1971Moore, Paul B. (1971) Copper-nickel arsenides of the Mohawk No. 2 Mine, Mohawk Keweenaw Co., Michigan. American Mineralogist, 56 (5-6) 1319-1331
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Trigodomeykite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/trigodomeykite-46462},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}