Formula: NiSb

Species:

Colour: Copper-red with a violet tint

Lustre: Metallic

Hardness: 5½

Specific Gravity: 7.591 – 8.23

Crystal System: Hexagonal

Member of: Nickeline Group

Name: Named in 1840 by Julius Fröbel in honor of Saxon mineralogist Johann Friedrich August Breithaupt (1791- 1873). Breithaupt was professor at the Bergakademie in Freiburg, Germany and later successor to Friedrich Mohs at the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Breithaupt was a prolific systematic mineralogist and originated the concept of paragenesis. Originally named antimonickel and described in 1833 by Friedrich Stromeyer.

Type Locality: St Andreasberg, Braunlage, Goslar District, Lower Saxony – Germany