Guettardite is a rare arsenic-antimony lead sulfosalt mineral with the chemical formula . It forms gray black metallic prismatic to acicular crystals with monoclinic symmetry. It is a dimorph of the triclinic twinnite.
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==Discovery and occurrence== It was first described in 1967 for an occurrence in the Taylor Pit, Madoc, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. It was named for French naturalist Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715–1786).
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).