Based on the sample received from Hope's Nose, England, Paar (1998) was able to utilize 7 grains in two polished sections to run 26 electron-microprobe analyses.
The presence of Cu in the sample proved important as the discovery of chrisstanleyite in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia found intergrown with an unnamed Cu-dominant equivalent (Nickel 2002).
Within the assemblage included a homogeneous fine-grained layer of malachite, quartz, and goethite along with heterogeneous grouping of dark nodules and masses in a malachite-quartz matrix.
A group of selenides were found in these masses and include berzelianite Cu2Se, umangite Cu3S2, naumannite Ag2Se, oosterboschite (Pd, Cu)7Se5, luberoite Pt5Se4, chrisstanleyite, and, at the time, the unknown jagueite (Nickel 2002; Paar et al. 2004).
A similar ore deposit was found in Northern Australia and had had microthermometry and low-temperature laser Raman spectroscopy utilized in this assemblage.
The selenide vein included similar minerals tiemannite HgSe, naumannite, clausthalite, umangite, klockmannite, chrisstanleyite, and jagueite.
It was identified that the grains of chrisstanleyite were surrounded by a rim of unnamed platinum-group metals, which were too thin to extract for identification, though it is associated with a silvery-mercury alloy.
This allowed determination of crystallization for the selenide assemblage: chrisstanleyite and jagueite → (clausthalite) → naumannite and tiemannite → umangite and klockmannite → Pd-free native gold (Paar et al. 2004).
Based on samples found in the Pilbara Region, the two minerals were both yellow and indistinguishable in reflected light and had weak bireflectance and moderate anisotropy (Nickel 2002).