zugshunstite

(mineralogy) A mineral comprising mostly cerium and oxygen.


krutovite

(mineralogy) A cubic nickel diarsenide mineral.


daqingshanite

(mineralogy) A trigonal mineral comprising mostly strontium, cerium, and oxygen.


eudialyte

en-noun

eudialyte (countable and uncountable, plural eudialytes)

From Ancient Greek εὖ διάλυτος (eû diálutos, “well decomposable”), alluding to its ready solubility in acid.

uder

(mineralogy) A red silicate mineral that forms in alkaline igneous rocks such as nepheline syenites.


zemkorite

(mineralogy) A soft hexagonal mineral containing potassium, sodium, calcium, carbon, and oxygen.


zeophyllite

(mineralogy) A white pearly mineral from hydrothermal alteration of basalt.


vauxite

From Vaux + -ite, after American mineral collector George Vaux Junior (1863-1927).

(mineralogy) A phosphate mineral of the laueite–paravauxite group.


jimboite

From Jimbo + -ite, after Kotora Jimbo (1867-1924).

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing boron, manganese, and oxygen.


triploidite

From triplite + -oid (“resembling”). This mineral resembles triplite.

(mineralogy) An uncommon monoclinic manganese iron phosphate mineral.


tusionite

From Tusion + -ite, after the Tusion River Valley in Tajikistan.

(mineralogy) A rare trigonal borate mineral.


zdenekite

From Zdenek + -ite. Named after Dr. Zdeněk Johan born 18 November 1935 by P. J. Chiappero and H. Sarp in 1995.

(mineralogy) A blue monoclinic mineral, a sodium, lead copper arsenate chloride


zavaritskite

From Zavaritskii + -ite, after Aleksandr Zavaritskii.

(mineralogy) A soft bismuth-oxygen-fluorine mineral.


valentinite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic antimony oxide mineral.


zincolibethenite

(mineralogy) A green mineral containing zinc, copper, phosphorus, hydrogen, and oxygen.


zwieselite

Named for type locality Zwiesel (in Bavaria, Germany) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A brown to black mineral containing manganese, iron, phosphorus, oxygen, and fluorine.


zodacite

(mineralogy) A yellow or colourless mineral comprising mostly oxygen, calcium, iron, and phosphorus.


zircosulfate

(mineralogy) A soft mineral containing zirconium, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.


naujakasite

(mineralogy) A mineral comprising mostly oxygen, silicon, aluminium, and sodium.


johnsomervilleite

(mineralogy) A dark, brittle, vitreous mineral comprising mostly iron, phosphorus, and oxygen.


fukalite

From Fuka + -lite. From Japanese 布賀; from the Fuka mine in Bitchuu Province, Okayama Prefecture, Japan.

(mineralogy) A mineral comprising mostly calcium, oxygen, and silicon.


zoubekite

From Zoubek + -ite, after Vladimír Zoubek.

(mineralogy) A grey orthorhombic mineral containing silver, antimony, lead, and sulfur.


rosenbergite

From Rosenberg + -ite, after US geochemist Philip E. Rosenberg.

(mineralogy) A mineral with chemical formula AlF₃·3H₂O.


viitaniemiite

(mineralogy) A mineral, Na(Ca,Mn++)Al(PO₄)(F,OH)₃.


tuperssuatsiaite

(mineralogy) A red-brown monoclinic mineral comprising mostly iron, silicon, and oxygen.


iraqite

(mineralogy) A greenish-yellow radioactive mineral.


quadridavyne

(mineralogy) A mineral found in volcanic ash.


tsnigriite

(mineralogy) A grey mineral found in gold and silver deposits.


taseqite

(mineralogy) A complex yellow-brown mineral found in Greenland.


yvonite

(mineralogy) A turquoise-blue mineral containing copper, arsenic, hydrogen, and oxygen.


ferrokinoshitalite

(mineralogy) A dark green iron mineral related to kinoshitalite.


zellerite

(mineralogy) A soft mineral containing calcium and uranium.


mccrillisite

(mineralogy) A mineral comprising mainly cesium, zirconium, phosphorus, and oxygen.


mcbirneyite

From McBirney + -ite, after Alexander Robert McBirney.

(mineralogy) A copper-oxygen-vanadium mineral.


nadorite

From Nador + -ite, after Djebel Nador in Algeria.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic brown or yellow mineral containing lead and tin.


ettringite

en-noun

ettringite (countable and uncountable, plural ettringites)

(mineralogy) A trigonal hydrous calcium aluminium sulfate mineral.


samsonite

From Samson + -ite, after an occurrence in the Samson Vein of the Sankt Andreasberg silver mines, Harz Mountains, Germany.

(mineralogy) A black, monoclinic silver manganese antimony sulfosalt mineral.


evenkite

From Evenkia + -ite, after a district of Siberia.

(mineralogy) A rare hydrocarbon mineral.


cornwallite

Named for type locality, Cornwall (England) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A basic copper arsenate mineral with chemical formula Cu₅(AsO₄)₂(OH)₄.


zincowoodwardite

(mineralogy) A soft bluish mineral comprising mostly zinc and oxygen.


loparite

loparite (countable and uncountable, plural loparites)

(mineralogy) A granular, brittle oxide mineral of the perovskite class.


o'danielite

Named after German professor of mineralogy Herbert O'Daniel (1903–1977), + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A mineral comprising mainly zinc, arsenic, and oxygen.


hapkeite

From Hapke + -ite, after US scientist Bruce Hapke.

(mineralogy) A meteoric mineral composed of silicon and iron.


wodginite

en-noun

wodginite (countable and uncountable, plural wodginites)

(mineralogy) A brown to black mineral comprising mainly tantalum.


abenakiite

(mineralogy) A mineral of sodium, cerium, neodymium, lanthanum, praseodymium, thorium, samarium, oxygen, sulfur, carbon, phosphorus, and silicon.


melonite

From Melones + -ite, after the Melones and Stanislaus mine in Calaveras County, California.

(mineralogy) A nickel telluride mineral.


canfieldite

canfieldite (usually uncountable, plural canfieldites)

From Canfield + -ite, after American mining engineer Frederick Alexander Canfield (1849-1926).

(mineralogy) A rare silver tin sulfide mineral.


wagnerite

From Wagner + -ite, after F. M. von Wagner (1768-1851), German mining official.

(mineralogy) A combined phosphate and fluoride of iron and magnesium.


hauerite

From Hauer + -ite, after Austrian geologists Joseph and Franz Ritter von Hauer.

(mineralogy) A manganese sulfide mineral, MnS₂, that forms reddish-brown or black octahedral crystals.


hedenbergite

hedenbergite (countable and uncountable, plural hedenbergites)

From Hedenberg + -ite, after M. A. Ludwig Hedenberg.

(mineralogy) The iron-rich endmember of the pyroxene group having a monoclinic crystal system.


mendozite

(mineralogy) A sulfate mineral of the alum series; a hydrated form of sodium aluminium sulfate.


zeuxite

From Ancient Greek ζεῦξις (zeûxis, “joining”) + + -ite.

der

(mineralogy, obsolete) A form of green tourmaline.


sanbornite

From Sanborn + -ite, after mineralogist Frank B. Sanborn (1862-1936).

(mineralogy) A rare orthorhombic barium phyllosilicate mineral.


argyrodite

en-noun

argyrodite (countable and uncountable, plural argyrodites)

(mineralogy) An uncommon silver germanium sulfide mineral, black with a purplish tinge and metallic lustre.


meionite

meionite (countable and uncountable, plural meionites)

From Ancient Greek μείων (meíōn, “less”) + -ite.

af

(mineralogy) A silicate mineral belonging to the scapolite group.


meneghinite

en-noun

meneghinite (countable and uncountable, plural meneghinites)

From Meneghini + -ite, after Giuseppe Meneghini (1811–1889).

(mineralogy) A blackish-grey orthorhombic sulfosalt mineral.


welshite

(mineralogy) A complex mineral containing magnesium and antimony.


miargyrite

Ancient Greek meyon, "smaller", and argyros, "silver", as its silver content is lower than most silver sulfides.

(mineralogy) A sulfide of silver and antimony.


hawleyite

From Hawley + -ite, after James Edwin Hawley.

(mineralogy) A rare cadmium sulfide mineral in the sphalerite group.


struvite

struvite (countable and uncountable, plural struvites)

Named after German diplomat and mineralogist Heinrich von Struve (1772–1851) + -ite (“mineral”).

named-after

(mineralogy) A hydrated magnesium-containing mineral Mg(NH₄)(PO₄)·6H₂O which is found in kidney stones associated with bacteria that cleave urea.


veatchite

(mineralogy) A strontium borate mineral.


scorzalite

From Scorza + -lite, after Brazilian geologist Everisto Pena Scorza (1899–1969).

(mineralogy) A dark blue phosphate mineral containing iron, magnesium, and aluminium phosphate.


schreyerite

(mineralogy) A vanadium titanium oxide mineral found in Kenya; it is a polymorph of kyzylkumite.


saponite

en-noun

saponite (countable and uncountable, plural saponites)

Coined by Swedish chemist and mineralogist Lars Fredrik Svanberg in 1840, from Latin sāpō (“soap”) + -ite.

coin

(mineralogy) A trioctahedral smectite mineral.


zemannite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, tellurium, and zinc.


zincospiroffite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic gray mineral containing oxygen, tellurium, and zinc.


vlodavetsite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal mineral with the chemical formula AlCa₂(SO₄)₂F₂Cl · 4H₂O.


zirklerite

(mineralogy) A trigonal mineral containing aluminum, chlorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, and oxygen.


zincrosasite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing carbon, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and zinc.


zapatalite

Named after Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919), the peasant hero of the Mexican revolution.
Zapata + -lite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal light blue mineral containing aluminum, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.


zincroselite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and zinc.


zincgartrellite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal greenish yellow mineral containing arsenic, copper, hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, and zinc.


zairite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing aluminum, bismuth, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and phosphorus.


yoshiokaite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral mineral containing aluminum, calcium, oxygen, and silicon.


yuanfuliite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal black mineral containing aluminum, boron, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and titanium.


yoderite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


yafsoanite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing calcium, oxygen, tellurium, and zinc.


zincovoltaite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, potassium, sulfur, and zinc.


zincaluminite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and zinc.


yedlinite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral red violet mineral containing chlorine, chromium, hydrogen, lead, and oxygen.


yoshimuraite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal orange brown mineral containing barium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, phosphorus, silicon, strontium, sulfur, and titanium.


yavapaiite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic light pink mineral containing iron, oxygen, potassium, and sulfur.


yofortierite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and zinc.


zincostaurolite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, lithium, magnesium, oxygen, silicon, titanium, and zinc.


yarrowite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing copper and sulfur.


yixunite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral bright white mineral containing indium and platinum.


zirsinalite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing calcium, iron, manganese, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and zirconium.


yeatmanite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal clove brown mineral containing antimony, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and zinc.


yanomamite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, indium, and oxygen.


wakabayashilite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing antimony, arsenic, and sulfur.


yushkinite

From Yushkin + -ite, named after Russian mineralogist Nikolai Pavlovich Yushkin (1936–2012).

named-after

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, sulfur, and vanadium.


westerveldite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing arsenic, cobalt, iron, and nickel.


yaroslavite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic white mineral containing aluminum, calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, and oxygen.


wheatleyite

From Wheatley + -ite, after the Wheatley mine, near Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal blue mineral containing carbon, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium.


yimengite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal black mineral containing aluminum, barium, chromium, iron, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and titanium.


yingjiangite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, and uranium.


wyllieite

After Peter John Wyllie, American geologist, + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.


yagiite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal colorless mineral containing aluminum, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium.


yakhontovite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic pistachio green mineral containing calcium, copper, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, and silicon.


wallkilldellite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal dark red mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, manganese, and oxygen.


vochtenite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic bronze brown mineral containing hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, phosphorus, and uranium.


vistepite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal yellowish orange mineral containing boron, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and tin.


vismirnovite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral light yellow mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, tin, and zinc.


osarsite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic gray mineral containing arsenic, osmium, ruthenium, and sulfur.


wickenburgite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and silicon.


nefedovite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pedial mineral containing calcium, fluorine, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.


wicksite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.


wilcoxite

From Wilcox + -ite, after William Wilcox (?-1880), discoverer of the Wilcox district of New Mexico in 1879.

(mineralogy) A triclinic mineral containing aluminum, fluorine, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and sulfur.


virgilite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-trapezohedral colorless mineral containing aluminum, lithium, oxygen, and silicon.


waylandite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing aluminum, bismuth, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.


natalyite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing chromium, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and vanadium.


woodallite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing aluminum, carbon, chlorine, chromium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, and oxygen.


vinogradovite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, barium, hydrogen, iron, niobium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and titanium.


willemseite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic light green mineral containing hydrogen, magnesium, nickel, oxygen, and silicon.


woodwardite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal mineral containing aluminum, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.


nisbite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal tin white mineral containing antimony and nickel.


oenite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic silver white mineral containing antimony, arsenic, and cobalt.


neltnerite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal black mineral containing calcium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


palladoarsenide

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic steel gray mineral containing arsenic and palladium.


wilhelmvierlingite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.


volynskite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral lead gray mineral containing bismuth, silver, and tellurium.


baricite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and phosphorus.


bearsite

Named after its chemical composition of BArium and ZIRconium.
 + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic white mineral containing arsenic, beryllium, hydrogen, and oxygen.


baghdadite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing calcium, oxygen, silicon, titanium, and zirconium.


queitite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal mineral containing lead, oxygen, silicon, sulfur, and zinc.


vlasovite

From Vlasov + -ite; named after Kuzma Aleksevich Vlasov (1905–1964), a Russian mineralogist and geochemist.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing oxygen, silicon, sodium, and zirconium.


wattevillite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic white mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, sodium, and sulfur.


bayleyite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and uranium.


voltaite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, potassium, and sulfur.


behoite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal mineral containing beryllium, hydrogen, and oxygen.


szaibelyite

Named in 1861 by Karl Ferdinand Peters in honour of Stephen Szaibely (1777-1855), mine surveyor of Rézbánya, Hungary, now Romania.
Szaibely + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing boron, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, and oxygen.


voglite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal mineral containing calcium, carbon, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and uranium.


beaverite

From Beaver + -ite, after Beaver County, Utah.

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal yellow mineral containing aluminum, copper, hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, and sulfur.


avogadrite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing boron, cesium, fluorine, and potassium.


nanpingite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, cesium, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, lithium, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon.


baylissite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and potassium.


apjohnite

Named after James Apjohn (1796-1886), Professor of Mineralogy at Trinity College, Dublin and the person who first described the mineral.
Apjohn + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and sulfur.


arsenogorceixite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing aluminum, arsenic, barium, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.


wycheproofite

After Wycheproof, northwestern Victoria, Australia, + -ite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sodium, and zirconium.


aminoffite

From Aminoff + -ite, named after Swedish mineralogist Gregori Aminoff.

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.


serendibite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing aluminum, boron, calcium, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon.


srilankite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal black mineral containing oxygen, titanium, and zirconium.


stottite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal mineral containing germanium, hydrogen, iron, and oxygen.


taimyrite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic bronze gray mineral containing copper, palladium, platinum, and tin.


tavorite

(mineralogy) A triclinic mineral containing hydrogen, iron, lithium, oxygen, and phosphorus.


uralolite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.


szenicsite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic dark green mineral containing copper, hydrogen, molybdenum, and oxygen.


tsumgallite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing gallium, germanium, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, silicon, and zinc.


stanleyite

From Stanley + -ite, after Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), British journalist and explorer.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and vanadium.


tinsleyite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic dark red mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and potassium.


thorutite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, thorium, titanium, and uranium.


tilleyite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, carbon, oxygen, and silicon.


tugarinovite

After Aleksei Ivanovich Tugarinov, Russian geologist, + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic violet brown mineral containing molybdenum and oxygen.


altisite

From Al (“aluminum”) + Ti (“titanium”) + Si (“silicon”) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic white mineral containing aluminum, chlorine, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and titanium.


tuliokite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral mineral containing barium, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, sodium, and thorium.


tsumcorite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, and zinc.


tellurohauchecornite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal bronze mineral containing bismuth, nickel, sulfur, and tellurium.


trabzonite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic colorless mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.


threadgoldite

From Threadgold + -ite, after Ian M. Threadgold.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic greenish yellow mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and uranium.


telluropalladinite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic silver white mineral containing palladium and tellurium.


springcreekite

From Spring Creek + -ite, after a place in Australia.

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral black mineral containing barium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and vanadium.


ternesite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, oxygen, silicon, and sulfur.


quenselite

Named after Swedish professor of mineralogy Percy Dudgeon Quensel (1881–1966), + -ite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal pitch black mineral containing hydrogen, lead, manganese, and oxygen.


ushkovite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and phosphorus.


anthonyite

From Anthony + -ite, after its discoverer John W. Anthony.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing chlorine, copper, hydrogen, and oxygen.


szymanskiite

Szymański + -ite, named after Jan Tomasz Szymański, a Canadian X-ray crystallographer

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-pyramidal mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, mercury, nickel, and oxygen.


tiptopite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-pyramidal colorless mineral containing beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, lithium, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, and sodium.


turkestanite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and thorium.


utahite

(mineralogy) A triclinic mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, tellurium, and zinc.


terranovaite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium.


vladimirite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, and oxygen.


uvanite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic brownish yellow mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, uranium, and vanadium.


tilasite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, calcium, fluorine, magnesium, and oxygen.


vergasovaite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal olive green mineral containing copper, molybdenum, oxygen, sulfur, and zinc.


walfordite

(mineralogy) An isometric orange mineral containing iron, oxygen, and tellurium.


telyushenkoite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, cesium, fluorine, oxygen, potassium, rubidium, silicon, sodium, and zinc.


tooeleite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and sulfur.


wroewolfeite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.


villyaellenite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, manganese, and oxygen.


wilkinsonite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal black mineral containing iron, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


tegengrenite

(mineralogy) A trigonal dark red mineral containing antimony, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, titanium, and zinc.


tengchongite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal yellow mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, molybdenum, oxygen, and uranium.


varulite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, iron, manganese, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.


velikite

After A. C. Velikyi, mineralogist, + -ite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-scalenohedral mineral containing copper, mercury, sulfur, and tin.


tyretskite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pedial mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, and oxygen.


tvedalite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


vanuralite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic lemon mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, uranium, and vanadium.


umbozerite

Named after the type locality: Mt. Karnasurt, near Lake Umbozero
Umbozero + -ite

(mineralogy) An amorphous mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, sodium, strontium, and thorium.


tuzlaite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium.


ungemachite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral mineral containing hydrogen, iron, nitrogen, oxygen, potassium, sodium, and sulfur.


wilhelmramsayite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal bluish gray mineral containing copper, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, potassium, sodium, sulfur, and thallium.


vanalite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, sodium, and vanadium.


uranpyrochlore

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing calcium, cerium, fluorine, hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, tantalum, and uranium.


sarcolite

en-noun

sarcolite (usually uncountable, plural sarcolites)

From sarco- + -lite, from Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”) for its reddish fleshy color, and λίθος (líthos, “stone”) for being a mineral.

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, fluorine, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


vimsite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, and oxygen.


vikingite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic gray mineral containing bismuth, lead, silver, and sulfur.


urancalcarite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic bright yellow mineral containing calcium, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and uranium.


tristramite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-trapezohedral mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur, and uranium.


uranosilite

For its composition, a (URAN)yl (SIL)icate, + -ite.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal yellowish white mineral containing oxygen, silicon, and uranium.


vyacheslavite

From Vyacheslav + -ite, named after Russian mineralogist Vyacheslav Gavilovich Melkov.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and uranium.


truscottite

After Samuel John Truscott, English geologist, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A trigonal white mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


sadanagaite

Named in 1984 by Hidehiko Shimazaki and others in honour of Ryoichi Sadanaga (定永両一) (1920-2002), professor of crystallography at the University of Tokyo.
Sadanaga + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and titanium.


telargpalite

For its composition, (TEL)lurium, Latin (ARG)entum (“silver”), and (PAL)ladium, + -ite.

(mineralogy) An isometric steel gray mineral containing palladium, silver, and tellurium.


trogtalite

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal pink violet mineral containing cobalt and selenium.


vandendriesscheite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and uranium.


tschernichite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


ursilite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, silicon, and uranium.


trilithionite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic white mineral containing aluminum, fluorine, lithium, oxygen, potassium, and silicon.


thorogummite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, and thorium.


trolleite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.


kalipyrochlore

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral green mineral containing hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, potassium, strontium, and titanium.


vanmeersscheite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal canary yellow mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and uranium.


tsaregorodtsevite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal mineral containing aluminum, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and silicon.


trigonite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, lead, manganese, and oxygen.


sclarite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and zinc.


symplesite

From Ancient Greek συν- (sun-, “together”) + πλησίος (plēsíos, “near”) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, iron, and oxygen.


korzhinskite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, and oxygen.


schneebergite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, bismuth, calcium, cobalt, hydrogen, iron, nickel, and oxygen.


satpaevite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, and vanadium.


senegalite

From Senegal + -ite, from the type locality.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.


cesanite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-trigonal dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, sodium, and sulfur.


collinsite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and phosphorus.


vanoxite

(mineralogy) A trigonal mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, and vanadium.


ktenasite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and zinc.


jixianite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, and tungsten.


bazirite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-ditrigonal dipyramidal colorless mineral containing barium, oxygen, silicon, and zirconium.


cuprosklodowskite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, and uranium.


cattiite

From Catti + -ite, after physical chemist Michele Catti.

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal colorless mineral containing hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and phosphorus.


kupcikite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic gray mineral containing antimony, bismuth, cadmium, copper, iron, lead, silver, and sulfur.


dietzeite

From Dietze + -ite after August Dietze (?-1893?), German chemist who first described the mineral.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic golden yellow mineral containing calcium, chromium, iodine, and oxygen.


quadratite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing arsenic, cadmium, lead, silver, and sulfur.


johannsenite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


kanonaite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal greenish black mineral containing aluminum, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


joesmithite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic black mineral containing beryllium, calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, lead, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


uranopolycrase

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal brown red mineral containing niobium, oxygen, tantalum, thorium, titanium, uranium, and yttrium.


kryzhanovskite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.


uranotungstite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing barium, hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, tungsten, and uranium.


kanonerovite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.


keyite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic azure mineral containing arsenic, cadmium, calcium, copper, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and zinc.


khanneshite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal pyramidal light yellow mineral containing barium, calcium, carbon, cerium, oxygen, sodium, and strontium.


cuprospinel

cuprospinel (usually uncountable, plural cuprospinels)

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral black mineral containing aluminum, copper, iron, magnesium, and oxygen.


kuranakhite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing lead, manganese, oxygen, and tellurium.


kuznetsovite

(mineralogy) An isometric-tetartoidal mineral containing arsenic, chlorine, mercury, and oxygen.


cuprostibite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal steel gray mineral containing antimony, copper, and thallium.


althausite

Named for Egon Althouse, a German mineralogist + -ite.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal gray mineral containing fluorine, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and phosphorus.


carbokentbrooksite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal yellow mineral containing calcium, carbon, cerium, chlorine, hydrogen, lanthanum, manganese, neodymium, niobium, oxygen, potassium, praeseodymium, silicon, sodium, strontium, titanium, yttrium, and zirconium.


kamchatkite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal greenish brown mineral with the chemical formula KCu₃(SO₄)₂OCl.


khinite

Named in honor of BaSaw Khin (b. 1931, Burma; Burmese-American geologist, petrographer and mineralogist with Phelps Dodge Corporation, USA) + -ite.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal dark green mineral containing copper, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and tellurium.


jianshuiite

(mineralogy) A trigonal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.


liskeardite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing aluminum, arsenic, hydrogen, iron, and oxygen.


kupletskite

After Boris Kupletski and Elsa Kupletskaya, Russian geologists, + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing fluorine, hydrogen, iron, manganese, niobium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and titanium.


jonesite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing aluminum, barium, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and titanium.


kornelite

Borrowed from Hungarian kornelit, after its discoverer Kornel Hlavacsek.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and sulfur.


kasolite

Named for type locality Kasolo Mine in Zaire, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, silicon, and uranium.


smithite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, silver, and sulfur.


kentbrooksite

Named for geologist C. Kent Brooks + -ite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal yellowish brown mineral containing calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, manganese, niobium, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and zirconium.


umohoite

umohoite (usually uncountable, plural umohoites)

From U (“uranium”) + Mo (“molybdenum”) + H (“hydrogen”) + O (“oxygen”) -ite.

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing hydrogen, molybdenum, oxygen, and uranium.


jolliffeite

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal tin white mineral containing arsenic, cobalt, nickel, and selenium.


kolovratite

From Kolovrat + -ite. Named after Lev Stanislovich Kolovrat-Chervinckii (1884-1921; Russian: Лев Станиславович Коловрат-Червинский), a physicist and radiologist of the Russian Empire.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing hydrogen, nickel, oxygen, vanadium, and zinc.


jeromite

(mineralogy) An amorphous mineral containing arsenic, selenium, and sulfur.


vanthoffite

From Vanthoff + -ite, named for Dutch physical chemist and Nobel Prize winner Jacobus Hendricus van 't Hoff, Jr (1852-1911).

The principal changes which have taken place in the deposits are those of kieserite and rock salt into vanthoffite and loewite, and of carnallite into sylvite. The vanthoffite crystals are almost pure.

1914, Journal of the Chemical Society, Volume 106, Part 2, page 376:

1968, Robert Kühn, Geochemistry of the German Potash Deposits, Richard B. Mattox (editor), Saline Deposits: A Symposium based on Papers from the International Conference on Saline Deposits, Houton Texas, 1962, Geological Society of America, Special Paper 88, page 431,
At high temperatures there is a separation of the “thermophile” salts, halite, anhydrite, thenardite, bloedite, vanthoffite, loeweite, kainite, and langbeinite, which have a negative coefficient of solubility.

1980, P. A. Storm, The Great Salt Lake Brine System, J. Wallace Gwynn (editor), Great Salt Lake: A Scientific, Historical and Economic Overview, Utah Geological and Mineral Survey, Bulletin 116, page 150,
Other sodium bearing minerals that can be produced through solar evaporation are astrakainite. glaserite, and vanthoffite.

(minerals, mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing magnesium, oxygen, sodium, and sulfur.


johillerite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic violet mineral containing aluminum, arsenic, copper, iron, magnesium, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, and zinc.


mammothite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic sulfate chloride mineral with the chemical formula Pb₆Cu₄AlSb⁵⁺O₂(OH)₁₆Cl₄(SO₄)₂.


landesite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal brown mineral containing hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.


kinichilite

Named after Japanese mineral collector Dr. Ken'ichi Sakurai (1912–1993), + -lite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dipyramidal dark brown mineral containing hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and tellurium.


jinshajiangite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing barium, calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, manganese, niobium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, titanium, and zirconium.


kurchatovite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal light gray mineral containing boron, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.


kristiansenite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pedial mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, scandium, silicon, sodium, tin, and zirconium.


johachidolite

Named for type locality Johachido district (an old name for Sanpal-Tong) in North Korea, + -lite.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, boron, calcium, and oxygen.


johninnesite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal yellow brown mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


kashinite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal light gray mineral containing iridium, rhodium, and sulfur.


ixiolite

From the Greek mythical character Ixion, + -lite. This mineral contains tantalum, named after Tantalus, who is another Greek mythical figure with whom Ixion had a similarity in that they both are punished in Tartarus.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing iron, manganese, niobium, oxygen, tantalum, and tin.


kornite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


manandonite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pedial mineral containing aluminum, boron, hydrogen, lithium, oxygen, and silicon.


mandarinoite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and selenium.


laueite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.


kazakhstanite

Named after Kazakhstan, the country of the type locality
Kazakhstan + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic black mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and vanadium.


keckite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, phosphorus, and zinc.


klyuchevskite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing aluminum, copper, iron, oxygen, potassium, and sulfur.


makovickyite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic gray mineral containing bismuth, silver, and sulfur.


kieftite

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal tin white mineral containing antimony and cobalt.


landauite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral black mineral containing iron, lead, manganese, oxygen, potassium, sodium, titanium, and zinc.


jeppeite

After John Frederick Biccard Jeppe, Australian geologist, + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic black mineral containing barium, iron, oxygen, potassium, and titanium.


jeremejevite

Named after 19th century Russian mineralogist P. V. Jeremejev + -ite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, boron, fluorine, hydrogen, and oxygen.


liebauite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, copper, oxygen, and silicon.


kampfite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic light blue gray mineral containing aluminum, barium, carbon, chlorine, oxygen, silicon, sodium, strontium, and titanium.


mcguinnessite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing carbon, copper, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.


lawsonbauerite

Named for chemist Lawson H. Bauer + -ite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, sulfur, and zinc.


lavrentievite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing bromine, chlorine, mercury, and sulfur.


kribergite

(mineralogy) A triclinic white mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur.


lourenswalsite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal mineral containing aluminum, barium, calcium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and titanium.


lawrencite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing chlorine, iron, and nickel.


laurelite

Named for type locality Laurel Canyon (in Graham County, Arizona) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-trigonal dipyramidal colorless mineral containing chlorine, fluorine, and lead.


manganbelyankinite

(mineralogy) An amorphous mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, manganese, niobium, oxygen, and titanium.


yugawaralite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.


magnesiokatophorite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


mallestigite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-trapezohedral colorless mineral containing antimony, arsenic, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and sulfur.


liebenbergite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal yellow green mineral containing magnesium, nickel, oxygen, and silicon.


mcauslanite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pedial mineral containing aluminum, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and phosphorus.


lazarenkoite

Named in honour of Evgenii Konstantinovich Lazarenko (1912-1979), a mineralogist at Lvov University, Ukraine.
Lazarenko + -ite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic light orange mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, iron, and oxygen.


manganbabingtonite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


koenenite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing aluminum, chlorine, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and sodium.


kawazulite

Named for type locality Kawazu Mine (in Shizuoka, Japan) + -lite.

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing bismuth, selenium, sulfur, and tellurium.


mcallisterite

Named after geologist James Franklin McAllister + -ite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing boron, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.


mcnearite

(mineralogy) A triclinic white mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium.


kegelite

Named after German director of mining operations at the Tsumeb Mine, Friedrich Wilhelm Kegel (1874–1948) + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing aluminum, carbon, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, silicon, and sulfur.


metavandendriesscheite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and uranium.


potassicpargasite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic black mineral containing calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium.


piypite

Boris I. Piyp (a Soviet geologist) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A tetragonal sulfate chloride mineral with the chemical formula K₄Cu₄O₂(SO₄)₄ · (Na,Cu)Cl.


penkvilksite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, sodium, titanium, and zirconium.


mcalpineite

From McAlpine + -ite, named after a mine in Tuolumne County, California.

(mineralogy) An isometric mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and tellurium.


mathewrogersite

(mineralogy) A trigonal mineral containing aluminum, copper, germanium, hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, and silicon.


metatyuyamunite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, uranium, and vanadium.


penfieldite

After Samuel Lewis Penfield (American scientist) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal mineral containing chlorine, hydrogen, lead, and oxygen.


phaunouxite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal colorless mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, and oxygen.


mcgillite

Named in honor of McGill University (in Montreal, Canada) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing chlorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


metavanmeersscheite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal canary yellow mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and uranium.


nickellotharmeyerite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, bismuth, calcium, cobalt, hydrogen, iron, nickel, and oxygen.


mcgovernite

From McGovern + -ite, in honor of James J. McGovern, American mine foreman.

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and zinc.


magnesiosadanagaite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic brownish black mineral containing aluminum, calcium, chromium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and titanium.


proudite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic silver gray mineral containing antimony, bismuth, copper, lead, selenium, silver, and sulfur.


phosphoellenbergerite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal pyramidal blue mineral containing calcium, carbon, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and phosphorus.


orthominasragrite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and vanadium.


penobsquisite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal pale yellow mineral containing boron, calcium, chlorine, hydrogen, iron, and oxygen.


parasymplesite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, iron, and oxygen.


lamprophyllite

en-noun

lamprophyllite (countable and uncountable, plural lamprophyllites)

From Ancient Greek λαμπρός (lamprós, “shining”) + φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”), for its luster, + -ite.

uder

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing barium, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, sodium, strontium, and titanium.


mpororoite

(mineralogy) A triclinic greenish yellow mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.


parasibirskite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic white mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, and oxygen.


potassicsadanagaite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium.


radhakrishnaite

Named after Dr. Bangalore Puttaiya Radhakrishna or BPR (1918-2012), director of Mysore Geological Department, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A tetragonal rose-brown mineral containing chlorine, lead, sulfur, and tellurium.


petscheckite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral black mineral containing iron, niobium, oxygen, tantalum, and uranium.


edgarbaileyite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing mercury, oxygen, and silicon.


magnesiodumortierite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, boron, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, silicon, and titanium.


pararammelsbergite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing arsenic and nickel.


potassicleakeite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic reddish brown mineral containing hydrogen, iron, lithium, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and vanadium.


thorosteenstrupine

en-noun

thorosteenstrupine (usually uncountable, plural thorosteenstrupines)

(mineralogy) An amorphous mineral containing calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and thorium.


thoreaulite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing oxygen, tantalum, and tin.


veszelyite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and zinc.


tischendorfite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic beige mineral containing lead, mercury, palladium, selenium, and silver.


phosphowalpurgite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal brownish gray mineral containing arsenic, bismuth, calcium, copper, hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, phosphorus, silicon, uranium, and vanadium.


mcconnellite

Named after Canadian director of the British Guyana Geological Survey, Dr. Richard Bradford McConnell (1903–1986), + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral dark red mineral containing chromium, copper, and oxygen.


kvanefjeldite

From Kvanefjeld + -ite. From Danish Kvanefjeld, a compound of kvan (“garden angelica”) + -e- + fjeld (“mountain”). Its namesake is the locality of the mineral.

compound

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal violet pink mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


poldervaartite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


paramendozavilite

From para- + mendozavilite, for its close relation to that mineral.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, molybdenum, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.


svyazhinite

(mineralogy) A triclinic mineral containing aluminum, fluorine, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and sulfur.


phosphovanadylite

For its composition, a phosphorus-bearing mineral containing a vanadyl anion base, + -ite.

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral light greenish blue mineral containing aluminum, barium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, and vanadium.


sweetite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-trapezohedral mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, and zinc.


tetrarooseveltite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal mineral containing arsenic, bismuth, and oxygen.


yuanjiangite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal silver white mineral containing gold and tin.


mckinstryite

From McKinstry + -ite, after US geologist Hugh McKinstry.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal light grayish white mineral containing copper, silver, and sulfur.


svyatoslavite

Святослав + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal colorless mineral containing aluminum, calcium, oxygen, and silicon.


vyalsovite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal red mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and sulfur.


parabariomicrolite

From Ancient Greek παρά (pará, “near”) + bariomicrolite, for being close in composition to that mineral. This name was discredited in 2016 in favor of hydrokenomicrolite-3R.

(mineralogy, outdated) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing barium, hydrogen, oxygen, and tantalum.


susannite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and sulfur.


magnesiostaurolite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, lithium, magnesium, oxygen, silicon, titanium, and zinc.


tertschite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic snow white mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, and oxygen.


pyroxmangite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing iron, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


tsugaruite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic silvery lead gray mineral containing arsenic, lead, and sulfur.


svabite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dipyramidal mineral containing arsenic, calcium, fluorine, and oxygen.


voggite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sodium, and zirconium.


suzukiite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal light green mineral containing barium, oxygen, silicon, and vanadium.


phosphogartrellite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal bright green mineral containing copper, hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, and phosphorus.


laurionite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing chlorine, hydrogen, lead, and oxygen.


vuorelainenite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral brownish gray mineral containing chromium, iron, manganese, oxygen, and vanadium.


vigezzite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, cerium, niobium, oxygen, tantalum, and titanium.


vonbezingite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic azure mineral containing calcium, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.


sphaerobertrandite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal mineral containing beryllium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.


thorbastnasite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-ditrigonal dipyramidal brown mineral containing calcium, carbon, cerium, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen, and thorium.


villamaninite

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal iron black mineral containing cobalt, copper, iron, nickel, and sulfur.


sverigeite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal yellow mineral containing beryllium, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and tin.


djerfisherite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing chlorine, copper, iron, nickel, potassium, sodium, and sulfur.


vysotskite

After N. K. Vysotskii, Soviet geologist, + -ite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal silver gray mineral containing nickel, palladium, and sulfur.


norrishite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing lithium, manganese, oxygen, potassium, and silicon.


strontiowhitlockite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal white mineral containing barium, calcium, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, phosphorus, and strontium.


watkinsonite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic black mineral containing bismuth, copper, lead, selenium, and sulfur.


pellyite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing barium, calcium, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon.


swedenborgite

From Swedenborg + -ite. Named after Swedish pluralistic-Christian theologian, scientist, philosopher and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772).

named-after

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal pyramidal mineral containing antimony, beryllium, oxygen, and sodium.


tetraferroplatinum

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal white mineral containing iron and platinum.


yecoraite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal mineral containing bismuth, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and tellurium.


synadelphite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, lead, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.


preobrazhenskite

From Russian Преображенский (Preobraženskij) + -ite. Named after the surname of the Soviet researcher of salt deposits P. I. Preobrazhenskyi.

noncog

Преображенский

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing boron, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.


strontiojoaquinite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal mineral containing barium, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, silicon, sodium, strontium, and titanium.


johntomaite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic greenish black mineral containing barium, calcium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.


sveite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic white mineral containing aluminum, chlorine, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and potassium.


turanite

(mineralogy) An olive green mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and vanadium.


alacranite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic and sulfur.


allargentum

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal silver gray mineral containing antimony and silver.


albrechtschraufite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal yellow green mineral containing calcium, carbon, fluorine, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and uranium.


aldermanite

From Alderman + -ite, after mineralogist Arthur Richard Alderman.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic colorless mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and phosphorus.


allactite

(mineralogy) A mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, manganese, and oxygen.


aktashite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-pyramidal grayish black mineral containing arsenic, copper, mercury, and sulfur.


suanite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing boron, magnesium, and oxygen.


panunzite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium.


anilite

en-noun

anilite (usually uncountable, plural anilites)

Named after type locality Ani mine in Akita (Japan) + -lite.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal bluish gray mineral containing copper and sulfur.


tsumoite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral silver white mineral containing bismuth and tellurium.


jasmundite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-scalenohedral mineral containing calcium, oxygen, silicon, and sulfur.


bobfergusonite

Named for Professor Robert B. Ferguson, a noted mineralogist, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, iron, manganese, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.


manganokhomyakovite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing calcium, chlorine, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, silicon, sodium, strontium, tungsten, and zirconium.


paxite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic light grayish white mineral containing arsenic and copper.


anorthominasragrite

From an- + ortho- + minasragrite. Named for the polymorphic relationship to minasragrite.

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal blue green mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and vanadium.


reidite

Named in 2002 by Billy P. Glass, Shaobin Liu and Peter B. Leavens in honour of Alan F. Reid, who first produced the phase in high-pressure laboratory experiments in 1969.
Reid + -ite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal white mineral containing oxygen, silicon, and zirconium.


neyite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic galena white mineral containing bismuth, copper, lead, silver, and sulfur.


surite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing aluminum, carbon, copper, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


pekoite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal lead gray mineral containing bismuth, copper, lead, selenium, and sulfur.


panasqueiraite

Panasqueira in Portugal, where it can be found, + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and phosphorus.


leadamalgam

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal silver white mineral containing lead and mercury.


akrochordite

From Ancient Greek ἀκροχορδών (akrokhordṓn, “wart”) + -ite.

der

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic reddish brown mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.


mundite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and uranium.


paraguanajuatite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing bismuth, selenium, and sulfur.


okayamalite

Named for type locality Okayama Prefecture (in Japan) + -lite.

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-scalenohedral creamy white mineral containing boron, calcium, oxygen, and silicon.


iridarsenite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic gray mineral containing arsenic, iridium, and ruthenium.


nickelschneebergite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, bismuth, calcium, cobalt, hydrogen, iron, nickel, and oxygen.


alumopharmacosiderite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral white mineral containing aluminum, arsenic, hydrogen, oxygen, and potassium.


idaite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal mineral containing copper, iron, and sulfur.


nealite

Named after American mineralogist Leo Neal Yedlin (1908–1977), + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing arsenic, chlorine, iron, lead, and oxygen.


ferrokentbrooksite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, chlorine, fluorine, hafnium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, niobium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, strontium, tantalum, titanium, yttrium, and zirconium, as well as lanthanum, cerium, praeseodymium, neodymium, and samarium.


allabogdanite

Named for Russian geologist Alla Bogdanova + -ite.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal light straw yellow mineral containing cobalt, iron, nickel, and phosphorus.


roselite

Named after German mineralogist Gustav Rose (1798–1873), + -lite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, calcium, cobalt, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.


aleksite

From Russian Алексеев (Aleksejev) + -ite, after the mine where it was found.

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral steel gray mineral containing bismuth, lead, sulfur, and tellurium.


isoferroplatinum

An isometric-hexoctahedral bright white mineral containing copper, iron, palladium, and platinum.


jarlite

Named after Danish engineer Carl Frederik Jarl (1872–1951), + -ite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, barium, calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, lithium, magnesium, oxygen, sodium, and strontium.


strunzite

Named after Karl Hugo Strunz (1910-2006), a German mineralogist.
Strunz + -ite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.


izoklakeite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal lead gray mineral containing antimony, bismuth, copper, iron, lead, and sulfur.


iwakiite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal greenish black mineral containing iron, manganese, and oxygen.


wallisite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing arsenic, copper, lead, silver, sulfur, and thallium.


uytenbogaardtite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-trapezohedral gray white mineral containing gold, silver, and sulfur.


lindgrenite

en-noun

lindgrenite (usually uncountable, plural lindgrenites)

From Lindgren (Swedish surname) + -ite. Named after Swedish-American economic geologist Waldemar Lindgren (1860–1939).

named-after

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing copper, hydrogen, molybdenum, and oxygen.

lindgrenita

mineral containing copper, hydrogen, molybdenum and oxygen


vandenbrandeite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and uranium.


paracoquimbite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral light violet mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and sulfur.


raite

Named after the international group of scientists of the 1969-1970 voyage of the papyrus ship, Ra
Ra + -ite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal mineral containing hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


warikahnite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, oxygen, and zinc.


johnbaumite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, and oxygen.


sturmanite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, boron, calcium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and sulfur.


wonesite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium.


amakinite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.


antimonpearceite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic black mineral containing antimony, arsenic, copper, silver, and sulfur.


ammoniojarosite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal yellow mineral containing hydrogen, iron, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.


wupatkiite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, cobalt, hydrogen, magnesium, nickel, oxygen, and sulfur.


tumchaite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, sodium, tin, and zirconium.


alvanite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, nickel, oxygen, vanadium, and zinc.


studenitsite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium.


tulameenite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal white mineral containing copper, iron, and platinum.


verplanckite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal mineral containing barium, chlorine, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and titanium.


uvite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, boron, calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


trippkeite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal greenish blue mineral containing arsenic, copper, and oxygen.


alumoklyuchevskite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal dark green mineral containing aluminum, copper, oxygen, potassium, and sulfur.


weibullite

After Mats Weibull, Swedish mineralogist, + -ite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal steel gray mineral containing bismuth, lead, selenium, and sulfur.


wegscheiderite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal colorless mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium.


turtmannite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and vanadium.


ammonioalunite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.


aplowite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic pink mineral containing cobalt, hydrogen, manganese, nickel, oxygen, and sulfur.


aschamalmite

Named after the type locality: Ascham Alp, Salzburg, Austria
Ascham Alp + m + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic creamy white mineral containing bismuth, lead, and sulfur.


uralborite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, and oxygen.


volkovskite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pedial mineral containing boron, calcium, chlorine, hydrogen, oxygen, and potassium.


andremeyerite

From Andre Meyer + -ite, named for the geologist who first collected it.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic emerald green mineral containing barium, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


sulphotsumoite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral gray white mineral containing bismuth, sulfur, and tellurium.


vanadiumdravite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, boron, chromium, fluorine, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and vanadium.


atokite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral white mineral containing palladium, platinum, and tin.


trechmannite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral scarlet red mineral containing arsenic, silver, and sulfur.


antarcticite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-trapezohedral colorless mineral containing calcium, chlorine, hydrogen, and oxygen.


ammonioborite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic white mineral containing boron, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen.


anyuiite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing antimony, gold, and lead.


ungarettiite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing manganese, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


vuonnemite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing fluorine, niobium, oxygen, phosphorus, silicon, sodium, and titanium.


wadeite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dipyramidal mineral containing oxygen, potassium, silicon, and zirconium.


tungstibite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal mineral containing antimony, oxygen, and tungsten.


twinnite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal black mineral containing antimony, arsenic, lead, and sulfur.


argentopentlandite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral bronze brown mineral containing iron, nickel, silver, and sulfur.


ansermetite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic carmine red mineral containing hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and vanadium.


tungusite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


wilhelmkleinite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic blackish green mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and zinc.


alumotungstite

(mineralogy) An isometric greenish yellow mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.


vihorlatite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral gray mineral containing bismuth, selenium, sulfur, and tellurium.


vanadomalayaite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic deep red mineral containing calcium, oxygen, silicon, and vanadium.


almarudite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and zinc.


whitmoreite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and phosphorus.


arsenbrackebuschite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic honey yellow mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, and zinc.


weberite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, fluorine, magnesium, and sodium.


walentaite

After Kurt Walenta, German mineralogist, + -ite.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.


verbeekite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic black mineral containing palladium and selenium.


uzonite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic yellow mineral containing arsenic and sulfur.


walthierite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing aluminum, barium, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.


watatsumiite

海神 (わたつみ watatsumi, sea god in Shinto mythology) + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic yellow green mineral containing barium, iron, lithium, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, titanium, and vanadium.


vinciennite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-trapezohedral orange mineral containing antimony, arsenic, copper, iron, sulfur, and tin.


tranquillityite

From tranquillity + -ite, after the Sea of Tranquillity, a basin on the Moon where the mineral was first found.

(mineralogy) A hexagonal dark red mineral containing iron, oxygen, silicon, titanium, yttrium, and zirconium.


ammonioleucite

en-noun

ammonioleucite (usually uncountable, plural ammonioleucites)

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal white mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, potassium, and silicon.


volkonskoite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, chromium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon.


wairauite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral steel gray mineral containing cobalt and iron.


varennesite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing chlorine, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


trembathite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing boron, chlorine, iron, magnesium, and oxygen.


viaeneite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic yellow mineral containing iron, lead, oxygen, and sulfur.


wardsmithite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.


takeuchiite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal black mineral containing boron, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.


wickmanite

After Franz-Erik Wickman, Swedish mineralogist, + -ite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and tin.


babefphite

From the chemical symbols of the elements that compose it: Ba (“barium”), Be (“beryllium”), F (“fluorine”), P (“phosphorous”) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal white mineral containing barium, beryllium, fluorine, oxygen, and phosphorus.


vuagnatite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.


urvantsevite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal steel gray mineral containing bismuth, lead, and palladium.


wermlandite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and sulfur.


strontioginorite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and strontium.


winstanleyite

From Winstanley + -ite, named after Betty Jo Winstanley (1934-), amateur mineralogist, who found the first specimen.

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal mineral containing oxygen, tellurium, and titanium.


teschemacherite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen.


vonsenite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing boron, iron, and oxygen.


tychite

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal mineral containing carbon, magnesium, oxygen, sodium, and sulfur.


weissbergite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pedial steel gray mineral containing antimony, sulfur, and thallium.


wawayandaite

From Wawayanda + -ite, discovered in a mine in Sussex County, New Jersey.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing beryllium, boron, calcium, chlorine, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


asbolane

(mineralogy) A hexagonal mineral containing calcium, cobalt, hydrogen, manganese, nickel, and oxygen.

asbolaani

a hexagonal mineral containing calcium, cobalt, hydrogen, manganese, nickel, and oxygen


weeksite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal yellow mineral containing barium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and uranium.


watanabeite

Named for Takeo Watanabe, a Japanese mineralogist.
Watanabe + -ite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing antimony, arsenic, copper, and sulfur.


woodruffite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal mineral containing hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and zinc.


weinebeneite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic colorless mineral containing beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.


tyrrellite

Named after Canadian geologist Joseph Burr Tyrrell (1858–1957), + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral bronze mineral containing cobalt, copper, nickel, and selenium.


willhendersonite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal colorless mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, and silicon.


wightmanite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing boron, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.


wattersite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing chromium, mercury, and oxygen.


wendwilsonite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, calcium, cobalt, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.


althupite

From aluminum + thorium + uranium + phosphorus + -ite.

af

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal yellow mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, thorium, and uranium.


wittichenite

From Wittichen + -ite, after an area in Baden of Germany.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal mineral containing bismuth, copper, and sulfur.


wherryite

From Wherry + -ite, named for Edgar T. Wherry, American mineralogist and plant ecologist.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing copper, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, silicon, and sulfur.


widenmannite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic light yellow mineral containing carbon, lead, oxygen, and uranium.


urusovite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic light green mineral containing aluminum, arsenic, copper, and oxygen.


wilkmanite

Wanold Wrydon Wilkman, a geologist with the Geological Survey of Finland + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic grayish yellow mineral containing nickel and selenium.


woodhouseite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur.


wolfeite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.


wittite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic light lead gray mineral containing bismuth, lead, selenium, and sulfur.


barytolamprophyllite

From its composition of barium and its relation to lamprophyllite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, barium, calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, niobium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, strontium, and titanium.


weishanite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal light yellow mineral containing gold, mercury, and silver.


wooldridgeite

From Wooldridge + -ite, after its discoverer James Wooldridge.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal greenish blue mineral containing calcium, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.


werdingite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal brownish yellow mineral containing aluminum, boron, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon.


wesselsite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal blue mineral containing copper, oxygen, silicon, and strontium.


strontiomelane

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic black mineral containing manganese, oxygen, and strontium.


vanadiocarpholite

The crystal structure refinement indicates vanadiocarpholite to be isotypic with carpholite, therefore it belongs to the carpholite group together with carpholite, magnesiocarpholite, ferrocarpholite, balipholite and potassic-carpholite.

2005, Riccardo BASSO, Roberto CABELLA, Gabriella LUCCHETTI, Alberto MARTINELLI, Andrea PALENZONA, Vanadiocarpholite, Mn2+V3+Al(Si₂O₆)(OH)₄, a new mineral from the Molinello mine, northern Apennines, Italy:

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and vanadium.


kuzminite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing bromine, chlorine, and mercury.


uranmicrolite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, tantalum, and uranium.


strontiochevkinite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing iron, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, oxygen, silicon, strontium, titanium, and zirconium.


sursassite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


stumpflite

Named after Austrian professor of mineralogy Eugen Friedrich Stumpfl (1931–2004), + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal silver white mineral containing antimony, bismuth, and platinum.


theoparacelsite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal dark pistachio green mineral containing arsenic, copper, hydrogen, and oxygen.


strontiodresserite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal white mineral containing aluminum, calcium, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and strontium.


symesite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal pink mineral with the chemical formula Pb₁₀(SO₄)O₇Cl₄ · H₂O.


arsenohauchecornite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal bronze mineral containing arsenic, bismuth, nickel, and sulfur.


lishizhenite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, sulfur, and zinc.


tlalocite

From Tlaloc, Mexica god of rain, + -ite, due to its high water content.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing chlorine, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, tellurium, and zinc.


surinamite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon.


swaknoite

From SWAKNO (acronym of Suid Wes Africa Karst Navorsing Organisasie (Afrikaans for "South West Africa Karst Exploration Organisation"), a caving association in Namibia) + -ite.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic white mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.


ustarasite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic pure white mineral containing antimony, bismuth, lead, and sulfur.


wenkite

From Wenk + -ite, named after Swiss geologist Eduard Wenk.

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-ditrigonal dipyramidal light gray mineral containing aluminum, barium, calcium, chlorine, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and sulfur.


strontioborite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal colorless mineral containing boron, hydrogen, oxygen, and strontium.


sudburyite

From Sudbury + -ite, after Sudbury District, Ontario.

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal silver gray mineral containing antimony, nickel, and palladium.


sudovikovite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral white mineral containing platinum and selenium.


kitkaite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral yellow gray mineral containing nickel, selenium, and tellurium.


uranocircite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing barium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and uranium.


lanmuchangite

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and thallium.


alumohydrocalcite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.


willyamite

(mineralogy) An isometric-tetartoidal mineral containing antimony, cobalt, nickel, and sulfur.


wiserite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal mineral containing boron, chlorine, hydrogen, manganese, and oxygen.


lacroixite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, fluorine, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.


freedite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic greenish yellow mineral containing arsenic, chlorine, copper, lead, and oxygen.


kolwezite

(mineralogy) A triclinic mineral containing carbon, cobalt, copper, hydrogen, and oxygen.


kirkiite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic tin white mineral containing arsenic, bismuth, lead, and sulfur.


furongite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and uranium.


kolfanite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, iron, and oxygen.


gowerite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, and oxygen.


basaluminite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.


kullerudite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal lead gray mineral containing nickel and selenium.


friedrichite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal silver gray mineral containing bismuth, copper, lead, and sulfur.


kusachiite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal black mineral containing bismuth, copper, and oxygen.


kosmochlor

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic emerald green mineral containing chromium, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


kurumsakite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing aluminum, copper, hydrogen, nickel, oxygen, silicon, vanadium, and zinc.


gabrielsonite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, iron, lead, and oxygen.


fischesserite

(mineralogy) An isometric-gyroidal silver white mineral containing gold, selenium, and silver.


koashvite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and titanium.


macquartite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic orange mineral containing chromium, copper, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and silicon.


lindqvistite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal black mineral containing iron, lead, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


kipushite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic emerald green mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and zinc.


krauskopfite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing barium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.


frankdicksonite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral colorless mineral containing barium and fluorine.


kurgantaite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pedial mineral containing boron, calcium, chlorine, hydrogen, oxygen, and strontium.


kingsmountite

Kings Mount(ain) + -ite, after the type locality, Kings Mountain, North Carolina.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.


kleinite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal mineral containing chlorine, hydrogen, mercury, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.


geminite

(mineralogy) A triclinic mineral containing arsenic, copper, hydrogen, and oxygen.


gainesite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal blue mineral containing beryllium, calcium, cesium, hydrogen, iron, lithium, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, and zirconium.


frolovite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, and oxygen.


ludjibaite

(mineralogy) A blue green mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.


vajdakite

From Vajdak + -ite after Josef Vajdak (1930-), for his significant contribution in the study of minerals in the Jachymov ore district (in northwestern Bohemia, Czechia).

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, molybdenum, and oxygen.


kuramite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-scalenohedral neutral gray mineral containing copper, sulfur, and tin.


gaotaiite

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal steel black mineral containing iridium and tellurium.


klebelsbergite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing antimony, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.


korshunovskite

(mineralogy) A triclinic colorless mineral containing chlorine, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.


korobitsynite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal colorless mineral containing hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and titanium.


gananite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral gray mineral containing bismuth and fluorine.


galenobismutite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing bismuth, lead, and sulfur.


koktaite

From Kokta + -ite, after Jaroslav Kokta, a Czech chemist.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.


kleemanite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and zinc.


krupkaite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal grayish white mineral containing bismuth, copper, lead, and sulfur.


franklinphilite

From Franklin + -philite; named for type locality Franklin, New Jersey, and the devotion of mineralogists to the Franklin area mineralogy.

(mineralogy) A triclinic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and zinc.


guanajuatite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing bismuth and selenium.


gageite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and zinc.


gaidonnayite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and zirconium.


furutobeite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic gray mineral containing copper, lead, silver, and sulfur.


kukisvumite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, sodium, titanium, and zinc.


gruzdevite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-pyramidal grayish black mineral containing antimony, copper, mercury, and sulfur.


greifensteinite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic dark olive green mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.


ericssonite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic reddish black mineral containing barium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


gamagarite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing barium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and vanadium.


galileiite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral mineral containing iron, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.


grumiplucite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic grayish black mineral containing bismuth, mercury, and sulfur.


erythrosiderite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing chlorine, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and potassium.


giorgiosite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic white mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.


kladnoite

From the Kladno District (Czech Republic) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen.


kuzelite

Named after German professor at University of Erlangen, Germany, Dr. Hans Jürgen Kuzel (1932–1997), + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A trigonal-pyramidal white mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.


gottlobite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and vanadium.


frohbergite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing iron and tellurium.


gallobeudantite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, arsenic, gallium, hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, sulfur, and zinc.


goudeyite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal mineral containing aluminum, arsenic, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and yttrium.


langite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.


goyazite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and strontium.


esperanzaite

Named after the discovery locality: La Esperanza Mine, Durango, Mexico.
Esperanza + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic blue green mineral containing aluminum, arsenic, calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium.


franklinfurnaceite

From Franklin + furnace + -ite, after Franklin Furnace in New Jersey, USA.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal dark brown mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and zinc.


foitite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal bluish black mineral composed of a basic, hydrated aluminate / borate / silicate of iron and sodium


ertixiite

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal mineral containing oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


gatehouseite

(mineralogy) A mineral containing hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.


erlichmanite

Named for Jozef Erlichman, electron microprobe analyst at the NASA Ames Research Center.
Erlichman + -ite

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal gray white mineral containing osmium and sulfur.


filipstadite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, antimony, iron, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.


gottardiite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal colorless mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


larderellite

Named after French engineer François Jacques de Larderell (1790–1858), known in Italy as Francesco Giacomo de Larderel, who ran business in the Tuscan borax industry.

(mineralogy) A dimorph of ammonioborate. A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing boron, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen.


famatinite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-scalenohedral pale brownish pink mineral containing antimony, copper, and sulfur.


esseneite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic reddish brown mineral containing aluminum, calcium, iron, oxygen, and silicon.


erdite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, sodium, and sulfur.


fuenzalidaite

Named by Judith A. Konnert et al. in 1994 in honour of Humberto Fuenzalida Villegas (1904-1966), founder of the Chilean School of Geology within the University of Chile and the Geological Society of Chile
Fuenzalida + -ite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing hydrogen, iodine, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, sodium, and sulfur.


grechishchevite

Grechishev + -ite
Named after Oleg Konstantinovich Grechishev, soviet geologist

(mineralogy) A tetragonal mineral containing bromine, chlorine, iodine, mercury, and sulfur.


erniggliite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral mineral containing arsenic, sulfur, thallium, and tin.


ericaite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing boron, chlorine, iron, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.


falcondoite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, magnesium, nickel, oxygen, and silicon.


grattarolaite

From Grattarola + -ite, from Giuseppe Grattarola, an Italian mineralogist.

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing iron, oxygen, and phosphorus.


fibroferrite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and sulfur.


davanite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal colorless mineral containing oxygen, potassium, silicon, and titanium.


eveslogite

Named after the type locality: Mt. Eveslogchorr, Khibiny massif, Kola peninsula, Russia
Mt. Eveslogchorr + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, barium, calcium, chlorine, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, manganese, niobium, oxygen, potassium, rubidium, silicon, sodium, strontium, tantalum, titanium, and zirconium.


ezcurrite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal colorless mineral containing boron, hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium.


emeleusite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing iron, lithium, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


fangite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing arsenic, sulfur, and thallium.


deerite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic black mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


kittatinnyite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal bright yellow mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


usovite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing aluminum, barium, calcium, fluorine, and magnesium.


eskimoite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic galena white mineral containing bismuth, lead, silver, and sulfur.


uranospathite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and uranium.


embreyite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic orange mineral containing chromium, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and phosphorus.


cuzticite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and tellurium.


flagstaffite

From Flagstaff + -ite, named after Flagstaff, Arizona, a city near the locality of discovery.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal yellowish white mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.


farringtonite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing magnesium, oxygen, and phosphorus.


flinkite

en-noun

flinkite (countable and uncountable, plural flinkites)

(mineralogy) A mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, manganese, and oxygen.


frondelite

Named after American mineralogist Clifford Frondel (1907–2002), + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.


eveite

Named in 1967 by Paul B. Moore after the biblical character Eve, in comparison to the isostructural mineral adamite.
Eve + -ite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal apple green mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, manganese, and oxygen.


cyrilovite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-trapezohedral mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.


coyoteite

(mineralogy) A triclinic black mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, sodium, and sulfur.


englishite

From English + -ite, after George L. English.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, and sodium.


defernite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, carbon, chlorine, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.


danielsite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic gray mineral containing copper, mercury, silver, and sulfur.


desautelsite

(mineralogy) A trigonal bright orange mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.


feklichevite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing calcium, cerium, chlorine, fluorine, hafnium, hydrogen, iron, lanthanum, manganese, niobium, oxygen, silicon, sodium, strontium, titanium, and zirconium.


faustite

Named by Richard Erd et al in honour of George Faust (1908 - 1985), mineralogist and petrologist of the U.S. Geological Survey and the describer of the minerals huntite, pecoraite and schoenfliesite.
Faust + -ite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal apple green mineral containing aluminum, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and zinc.


daomanite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal light greenish yellow mineral containing arsenic, copper, platinum, and sulfur.


winchite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium.


emilite

Named after sulfosalt specialist at University of Copenhagen Emil Makovicky, + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal tin white mineral containing bismuth, copper, lead, and sulfur.


cupromakovickyite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic gray mineral containing bismuth, copper, lead, selenium, silver, sulfur, and tellurium.


eztlite

From Nahuatl eztli (“blood”), for the mineral's appearance, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic blood-red mineral with the chemical formula Pb²⁺₂Fe³⁺₃(Te⁴⁺ O₃)₃(SO₄)O₂Cl.


coparsite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing arsenic, chlorine, copper, oxygen, and vanadium.


emmonsite

From Emmons + -ite, named after Samuel Franklin Emmons.

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and tellurium.


dadsonite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing antimony, chlorine, lead, and sulfur.


colquiriite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral white mineral containing aluminum, calcium, fluorine, and lithium.