yftisite

From the chemical symbols Y, F, Ti, and Si, and -ite.

(mineralogy) A yellow mineral containing mostly yttrium, oxygen, and fluorine.


vasilite

Named after Bulgarian docent of mineralogy at the Higher Institute of Mining and Geology, Sofia, Dr. Vasil Atanasov (1933–2015), + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral steel gray mineral containing copper, palladium, sulfur, and tellurium.


veenite

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


versiliaite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal black mineral containing antimony, iron, oxygen, and sulfur.


vitimite

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


vincentite

Vincent + -ite, after Ewart Albert "David" Vincent.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic gray mineral containing antimony, arsenic, palladium, platinum, and tellurium.


vertumnite

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


vernadite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and sodium.


vaughnite

(mineralogy) Alternative spelling of vaughanite


vasilyevite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing bromine, carbon, chlorine, iodine, mercury, oxygen, and sulfur.


vozhminite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal rose-orange mineral containing antimony, arsenic, cobalt, nickel, and sulfur.


srebrodolskite

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


stannomicrolite

For its composition, a tin-dominant member of the microlite group, from Latin stannum (“tin”). Discredited as the name of one specific species of mineral; as a mineral, most likely refers to oxystannomicrolite.

(mineralogy, outdated) An isometric-hexoctahedral yellow brown mineral containing hydrogen, iron, manganese, niobium, oxygen, tantalum, tin, and titanium.

(mineralogy) A variety of the generalized microlite subgroup.


stannopalladinite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal mineral containing copper, palladium, and tin.


stannoidite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal brass brown mineral containing copper, iron, sulfur, and tin.


shcherbinaite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal yellow green mineral containing oxygen and vanadium.


rankinite

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


berdesinskiite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic reddish brown mineral containing oxygen, titanium, and vanadium.


berezanskite

Named after Anatolyi Vladimirovich Berezanskii (born 1948) who mapped the geology of large amounts of remote areas of the Turkestan mountain range, Tajikistan
Berezansk- + -ite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal white mineral containing lithium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and titanium.


bilibinskite

(mineralogy) An isometric mineral containing copper, gold, lead, and tellurium.


bicchulite

From Bicchu + -lite. From Japanese 備中/備州 (“Bitchū/Bishū”); Named for the locality Bitchū, Okayama, Japan; where the Fuka mine is located, from which the mineral was discovered.

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral colorless mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.


biehlite

Named after mineralogist Fredrich Karl Biehl, the first to work in the mine where it was found, + -ite.

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


bismutocolumbite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal black mineral containing bismuth, niobium, oxygen, and tantalum.


bismutomicrolite

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


bismutopyrochlore

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


bismutostibiconite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing antimony, bismuth, iron, and oxygen.


bismutotantalite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing bismuth, niobium, oxygen, and tantalum.


bityite

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


ardealite

en-noun

ardealite (usually uncountable, plural ardealites)

Named after type locality Ardeal (Transylvania), Romania + -ite

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


aravaipaite

After the Aravaipa region in Arizona, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing aluminum, fluorine, hydrogen, lead, and oxygen.


amarillite

Named after type locality Terra Amarilla in Chile + -ite

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


boleite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing chlorine, copper, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, potassium, and silver.


taneyamalite

Named for one of its type localities Taneyama Mine (in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan) + -lite.

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


sosedkoite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal colorless mineral containing aluminum, antimony, calcium, niobium, oxygen, potassium, sodium, and tantalum.


spionkopite

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


souzalite

Named after Brazilian mining engineer Antonio José Alves de Souza (1896–1961), + -lite.

named-after

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


spertiniite

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


sphaerobismoite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal mineral containing bismuth and oxygen.


bismuto-

(mineralogy) Used to name minerals in which an element of another mineral is replaced by bismuth


swamboite

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


spencerite

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


tacharanite

en-noun

tacharanite (usually uncountable, plural tacharanites)

Named from the Gaelic tàcharan, a changeling + -ite, because when this poorly studied mineral was discovered, it was first supposed that on standing in air it breaks down to form other compounds (tobermorite and gyrolite).

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


swinefordite

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


swartzite

From Swartz + -ite, after Charles K. Swartz, American geologist and mineralogist.

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


switzerite

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


sopcheite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic brownish gray mineral containing palladium, silver, and tellurium.


soucekite

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


solongoite

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


stalderite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-scalenohedral mineral containing arsenic, copper, iron, mercury, sulfur, thallium, and zinc.


spheniscidite

From Sphenisciformes (“the taxonomic order comprising the penguins”) + -ite, after its discovery in the penguin nesting grounds on Elephant Island.

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


sterlinghillite

Named after type locality Sterling Hill, New Jersey + -ite.

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


stanfieldite

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


starkeyite

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


sterryite

From Sterry + -ite, after Thomas Sterry Hunt.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal black mineral containing antimony, arsenic, lead, silver, and sulfur.


stepanovite

(mineralogy) A trigonal mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and sodium.


arseno-

(organic chemistry, mineralogy) Used to name compounds and minerals in which an element is replaced by arsenic.

arseno-

used to name compounds and minerals in which an element is replaced by arsenic


arseno-

(organic chemistry, mineralogy) arseno- (used to name compounds and minerals in which an element is replaced by arsenic)


tuscanite

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


titantaramellite

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


spriggite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic bright orange mineral containing barium, calcium, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and uranium.


spodiosite

Swedish spodiosit, from Ancient Greek σπόδιος (spódios, “grey”).

The apatites, which are more soluble than the spodiosites, are formed on heating the latter to redness, hence spodiosites rarely occur in nature.

1911, Journal of the Chemical Society, volume 100, page 735:

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, fluorine, oxygen, and phosphorus.


stibarsen

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing antimony and arsenic.


sodicanthophyllite

From sodic + anthophyllite. Named for its composition, being a sodic orthoamphibole resembling anthophyllite.

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


steigerite

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


sodicgedrite

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


sorbyite

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


stenhuggarite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-pyramidal bright reddish orange mineral containing antimony, arsenic, calcium, iron, and oxygen.


stewartite

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


stibiotantalite

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


stibiocolumbite

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


stibiomicrolite

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


stibiobetafite

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


tokkoite

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


stranskiite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal cyanic blue mineral containing arsenic, copper, oxygen, and zinc.


strengite

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


stistaite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral light gray mineral containing antimony and tin.


stoppaniite

From Stoppani + -ite, after Francesco Saverio Stoppani, Italian lawyer and collector of minerals.

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal light blue mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


straczekite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic greenish black mineral containing barium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, and vanadium.


treasurite

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


strakhovite

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


strashimirite

From Strashimir + -ite, named after Strashimir Dimitrov (Страшимир Димитров) (1892-1960), Professor in Mineral and Petrography at Sofia University "St Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria.

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


strelkinite

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


stokesite

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


stoiberite

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


stringhamite

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


stillwaterite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral gray mineral containing arsenic and palladium.


sonolite

Named for type locality Sono Mine (in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan) + -lite.

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


sturtite

(mineralogy) An amorphous black mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


taikanite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal greenish black mineral containing barium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and strontium.


takanelite

Named after Japanese professor of mineralogy at Tohoku University, Katsutoshi Takane (1899–1945), + -lite.

named-after

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


teepleite

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


stanekite

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


tucekite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal light yellow mineral containing antimony, nickel, and sulfur.


takovite

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


tamaite

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


takedaite

en-noun

takedaite (usually uncountable, plural takedaites)

From Takeda + -ite; named after Japanese earth scientist Hiroshi Takeda (1934–).

named-after

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


suredaite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal grayish black mineral containing arsenic, lead, silver, sulfur, and tin.


stibiocolusite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral bronze mineral containing antimony, arsenic, copper, sulfur, tin, and vanadium.


stibivanite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing antimony, oxygen, and vanadium.


tancoite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, lithium, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.


tantalcarbide

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral yellow gray mineral containing carbon and tantalum.


stetefeldtite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing antimony, hydrogen, oxygen, and silver.


messelite

Named for type locality Messel (Germany) + -ite.

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


metaborite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral mineral containing boron, hydrogen, and oxygen.


metacalciouranoite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic orange mineral containing barium, calcium, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, sodium, and uranium.


metahewettite

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


mroseite

From Mrose + -ite, after Mary Emma Mrose (1910-2003), American mineralogist.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, carbon, oxygen, and tellurium.


liberite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic mineral containing beryllium, lithium, oxygen, and silicon.


litidionite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing copper, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium.


loseyite

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


kovdorskite

After the Kovdor massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia, + -ite

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


georgbokiite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing chlorine, copper, oxygen, and selenium.


fervanite

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


fillowite

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


ferroglaucophane

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


danalite

en-noun

danalite (usually uncountable, plural danalites)

From Dana + -lite, after James Dwight Dana.

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral mineral containing beryllium, iron, oxygen, silicon, and sulfur.


danbaite

(mineralogy) An isometric mineral containing copper and zinc.


damaraite

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


duttonite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic light brown mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, and vanadium.


dypingite

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


dyscrasite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing antimony and silver.


faheyite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-trapezohedral mineral containing beryllium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.


curite

curite (usually uncountable, plural curites)

From Curie (“a surname”) + -ite, after Pierre Curie and/or his wife Marie, early researchers of radioactivity — the ore being radioactive due to its uranium.

The color is lighter than that of curite.

1956, Walter Fred Hunt, editor, American Mineralogist, volume 41, page 555:

The present note relates to the behaviour of uranium minerals such as uraninite, curite, and uranophane in high-tension separators.

1962, Thomas Arthur Rickard, editor, The Mining Magazine, volumes 106-107, page 9:

1982, R. W. Boyle, Geochemical Prospecting for Thorium and Uranium Deposits, Elsevier, Developments in Economic Geology: 16, page 68,
Yellow, orange, greenish, and bluish oxidation products of uranium and copper comprising gummite and containing minerals such as curite, liebigite, malachite and azurite may be developed locally in the oxidized rubble and gossans.

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


deliensite

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


delhayelite

Named after Belgian geologist Fernard Delhaye (1880–1946), who worked in the type locality of Zaire, + -lite.

named-after

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


atlasovite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal dark brown mineral with the chemical formula K(BiO)Cu₆Fe³⁺(SO₄)₅O₃Cl.


arsenocrandallite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and strontium.


bellingerite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal light green mineral containing copper, hydrogen, iodine, and oxygen.


aurivilliusite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic dark gray black mineral containing bromine, chlorine, iodine, mercury, and oxygen.


bakerite

From Baker + -ite, after the area of Baker, California where it occurs.

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


bergslagite

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


balipholite

For its composition of (BA)rium and (LI)thium, and from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “stone”) for being a mineral. Claimed to also contain the Chinese word for fibrous. Likely, the -pho- is a reference to carpholite, which mineral group balipholite is closely related to.

It covered all the structures of the main minerals specified in the teaching plan of mineralogy course. It also contains most of crystal structures first determined by Chinese scientists, such as Baotite, Bafertisite, Balipholite, Prehnite, Astrophyllite, […]

1996, Abstracts: 30th International Geological Congress, Beijing, China, 4-14 August 1996, volume 3:

However, alkali and alkaline-earth cations can also occur in the carpholite-type structure; for example, balipholite […] has the carpholite structure (Peng et al. 1987).

2004, Kimberly T. Tait, Frank C. Hawthorne, Joel D. Grice, John L. Jambor, William W. Pinch, Potassic-carpholite, a new mineral species from the Sawtooth batholith, Boise County, Idaho, USA:

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, barium, fluorine, hydrogen, lithium, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon.


arsenuranospathite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, arsenic, hydrogen, oxygen, and uranium.


aramayoite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing antimony, bismuth, silver, and sulfur.


balyakinite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing copper, oxygen, and tellurium.


averievite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-pyramidal black mineral containing chlorine, copper, oxygen, and vanadium.


brackebuschite

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


bararite

Barari + -ite, after the place where it was first described, Barari in Jharia Coal Field, Dhanbad, India.

(mineralogy) A natural form of ammonium fluorosilicate, with chemical formula (NH₄)₂SiF₆ and trigonal crystal structure.


barberiite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal colorless mineral containing boron, fluorine, hydrogen, and nitrogen.


bannisterite

From Bannister + -ite, after British mineralogist Frederick Allen Bannister.

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


benavidesite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing antimony, iron, lead, manganese, and sulfur.


beraunite

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


bradaczekite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic dark blue mineral containing arsenic, copper, oxygen, sodium, and zinc.


belyankinite

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


brianroulstonite

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


brianyoungite

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


bleasdaleite

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


bonaccordite

From Bon Accord + -ite, after a locality in Transvaal, South Africa, where it was discovered.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal reddish-brown mineral of the ludwigite group, with chemical formula Ni₂FeBO₅.


bandylite

Named after American mining engineer Dr. Mark Chance Bandy, who found the mineral, + -lite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal dark blue mineral containing boron, chlorine, copper, hydrogen, and oxygen.


banalsite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal white mineral containing aluminum, barium, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


bellbergite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal mineral containing aluminum, barium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and strontium.


bayldonite

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


barbosalite

Named after Brazilian professor emeritus of geology Dr. Aluízio Licínio de Miranda Barbosa at School of Mines at Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil, + -lite.


borodaevite

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


boromuscovite

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


braggite

From Bragg + -ite, named after Sir William Henry Bragg and Professor William Lawrence Bragg, pioneers in the X-ray investigations of crystals.

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


lautenthalite

Named for type locality Lautenthal (Germany) + -ite.

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


leucosphenite

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


konyaite

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


koritnigite

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


kostylevite

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


keystoneite

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


kotulskite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal mineral containing bismuth, palladium, and tellurium.


kidwellite

en-noun

kidwellite (usually uncountable, plural kidwellites)

Named after American geologist Albert Laws Kidwell (1919–2008), + -ite.

named-after

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


kimrobinsonite

(mineralogy) An isometric lemon white mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and tantalum.


kuksite

From Kuks + -ite, named after Russian prospector A. I. Kuks.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal gray lead zinc tellurate phosphate mineral.


krasnovite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal pale blue mineral containing aluminum, barium, carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and phosphorus.


kettnerite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing bismuth, calcium, carbon, fluorine, and oxygen.


kombatite

From Kombat + -ite, after the Kombat Mine in the north-central part of Namibia, from Herero [Term?] (given name).

Kombatite is bright yellow in color with a light yellow streak.

1986, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, page 520:

However, later a large number of new minerals were discovered from the manganese and iron ores, such as kombatite, asisite, johninnesite and amaraite.

2004, Gabi Schneider, The roadside geology of Namibia, page 24:

In ordered structures, vacancies in the PbO blocks have the form of a square (in symesite), or a double square (butterfly-like vacancies in kombatite and sahlinite).

2011, S V Krivovichev, Minerals as Advanced Materials II, page 322:

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic light yellow mineral containing chlorine, lead, oxygen, and vanadium.


kudriavite

From Kudriavy (Russian Кудрявый (Kudrjavyj), the Russian volcano where it was discovered) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic dark reddish gray mineral containing bismuth, cadmium, indium, iron, lead, manganese, selenium, and sulfur.


leiteite

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


lemanskiite

From Lemanski + -ite, after Chet Lemanski, American mineralogist.

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-trapezohedral dark blue mineral containing arsenic, calcium, chlorine, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium.


aeschynite

(mineralogy) Any of several basic oxide minerals of mostly titanium and niobium with either cerium, neodymium or yttrium.


brassite

(mineralogy) A basic magnesium arsenate mineral from the Czech Republic.


bariosincosite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal mineral derived from sincosite by replacement of the calcium by barium.


brochantite

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brochantite (countable and uncountable, plural brochantites)

From the name of A. J. M. Brochant de Villiers, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A basic copper sulfate mineral


bariomicrolite

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


brinrobertsite

After Brin Roberts, British mineralogist, + -ite

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


beryllite

For its composition of beryllium, + -ite.

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


berzeliite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing arsenic, calcium, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and sodium.


berzelianite

Named in 1850 by James Dwight Dana in honour of Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848), Swedish chemist and the inventor of chemical symbol notation.
Berzelius + an + -ite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing copper and selenium.


bario-

(mineralogy) Used to form the names of minerals in which an element has been replaced by barium


benyacarite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, and titanium.


bertossaite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic light pink mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, lithium, oxygen, and phosphorus.


bannermanite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic black mineral containing oxygen, potassium, sodium, and vanadium.


berthierine

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


brannockite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal colorless mineral containing lithium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and tin.


sincosite

(mineralogy) A mixed calcium and vanadyl phosphate mineral that occurs in tetragonal scales or plates


buergerite

buergerite (usually uncountable, plural buergerites)

(mineralogy) A cyclosilicate mineral related to tourmaline.


fedorovskite

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


derriksite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, selenium, and uranium.


ferropargasite

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


foshagite

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


filatovite

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


palarstanide

Formed from palladium, arsenic, stanno-, and -ide.

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-trapezohedral steel gray mineral containing arsenic, palladium, and tin.


marshite

From Marsh + -ite, after the Australian mineral collector C. W. Marsh, who first described it.

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral mineral containing copper and iodine.


maldonite

After the town of Maldon, Victoria, Australia + -ite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing bismuth and gold.


hastite

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


lithiophosphate

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


ravatite

Named after its discovered locality: Ravat Village, Tajikistan
Ravat + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal mineral containing carbon and hydrogen.


kolymite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral mineral containing copper and mercury.


bunsenite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing nickel and oxygen, Nickel(II) oxide.


gupeiite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing iron and silicon.


carlinite

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


tobelite

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


chernykhite

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


phosphofibrite

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


perroudite

Named after Swiss mineralogist Pierre Perroud + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal light red mineral containing bromine, chlorine, iodine, mercury, silver, and sulfur.


pellouxite

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


mitscherlichite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing chlorine, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and potassium.


metaschoderite

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


metadelrioite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal pale yellow green mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, strontium, and vanadium.


lithiomarsturite

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


petarasite

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


geerite

(mineralogy) A trigonal bluish white mineral containing copper and sulfur.


seifertite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing oxygen and silicon.


niobocarbide

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing carbon, niobium, and tantalum.


cryptomelane

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


humboldtine

Named after German polymath Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), Humboldt + -ine.

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


metastibnite

(mineralogy) An amorphous mineral containing antimony and sulfur.


nickelphosphide

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-disphenoidal mineral containing iron, nickel, and phosphorus.


athabascaite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing copper and selenium.


tolbachite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing chlorine and copper.


krutaite

Named after Czech mineralogist Tomáš Krut'a (1906–1998), + -ite.

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal gray mineral containing copper and selenium.


amstallite

Named after the type locality, Amstall, Austria + -ite

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


anapaite

From Russian Анапа (Anapa) + -ite, named for the town near where it was discovered.

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


andorite

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andorite (countable and uncountable, plural andorites)

Named for Hungarian amateur mineralogist Andor von Semsey + -ite.

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


anduoite

From Anduo + -ite, after the region of Tibet where it is found.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal lead gray mineral containing arsenic, osmium, and ruthenium.


ankangite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal black mineral containing barium, chromium, oxygen, titanium, and vanadium.


apachite

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


apuanite

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


argentopyrite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing iron, silver, and sulfur.


armangite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral black mineral containing arsenic, carbon, hydrogen, manganese, and oxygen.


armenite

After the Armen mine, Kongsberg, Norway, + -ite

Pure armenite is colorless and has well developed prismatic pseudohexagonal crystals with poorly developed terminal faces.

1939 June 17, Henrich Neumann, “Armenite, a new mineral”, in Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift, volume 19, page 312:

All reported armenites are of nearly end-member composition.

2003, Hetherington, Callum J., et al., “Formation of armenite in the Berisal Complex, Simplon Region, Switzerland.”, in Swiss Bulletin of Mineralogy and Petrology, volume 83, number 3, page 243:

Although armenite contains 10 inequivalent Si-positions, only the topochemically distinct Si sites are resolved in the NMR spectrum.

2012, Robin K. Harris, NMR Crystallography:

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


arseniopleite

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


arseniosiderite

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


arsenoclasite

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


arsenopalladinite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pedial silver white mineral containing antimony, arsenic, and palladium.


arsenpolybasite

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


arsentsumebite

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


arsenuranylite

From the mineral's composition, arseno- + uranyl + -ite.

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


artsmithite

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


arupite

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


arzakite

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


asbecasite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, arsenic, beryllium, calcium, oxygen, silicon, tin, and titanium.


ashburtonite

From Ashburton + -ite (from an occurrence in Ashburton Downs in Western Australia).

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(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal blue mineral containing carbon, chlorine, copper, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and silicon.


ashoverite

From the village and parish of Ashover + -ite.

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


aspidolite

From Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”).

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


asselbornite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing arsenic, barium, bismuth, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, phosphorus, and uranium.


attakolite

From Ancient Greek ἄττακος (áttakos, “salmon”) + -lite, for its color.

uder

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


aurorite

Named after the North Aurora mine in Nevada, where it was discovered.
From Aurora + -ite.

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


avicennite

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal grayish black mineral containing oxygen and thallium.


baksanite

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


balangeroite

From Balangero (“a mine in Piedmont, Italy”) + -ite.

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


balkanite

From Balkan + -ite, after the medieval and popular name of the Stara planina (Balkan) mountains in Europe where it is found.

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


bambollaite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing copper, selenium, and tellurium.


bamfordite

From Bamford + -ite, after the location of Bamford Hill, Queensland.

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


baratovite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic pearl white mineral containing calcium, fluorine, lithium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, titanium, and zirconium.


barentsite

(mineralogy) A triclinic colorless mineral containing aluminum, carbon, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium.


bariandite

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


barnesite

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


barringerite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-ditrigonal dipyramidal gray white mineral containing iron, nickel, and phosphorus.


barroisite

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


bartelkeite

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


bartonite

From Barton + -ite, after Paul B. Barton, Jr., sulfide petrologist with the U.S. Geological Society.

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal black brown mineral containing iron, potassium, and sulfur.


barylite

From Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús, “heavy”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”).

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing barium, beryllium, oxygen, and silicon.


barysilite

From Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathús, “heavy”), the inclusion of (SI)licon, and λίθος (líthos, “stone”).

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing lead, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


baumhauerite

Named in 1902 by Richard Harrison Solly in honour of Heinrich Adolf Baumhauer (1848-1926), Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Fribourg.
Baumhauer + -ite

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


baumstarkite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal gray to white mineral containing antimony, arsenic, silver, and sulfur.


bauranoite

(mineralogy) A triclinic reddish brown mineral containing barium, hydrogen, oxygen, and uranium.


bavenite

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


belkovite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-ditrigonal dipyramidal brown mineral containing barium, niobium, oxygen, silicon, and titanium.


bellidoite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal silver gray mineral containing copper and selenium.


belloite

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


benauite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing barium, hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, phosphorus, strontium, and sulfur.


benleonardite

Named after Dr. Benjamin Franklin Leonard III: Ben + Leonard + -ite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal very pale blue mineral containing antimony, arsenic, silver, sulfur, and tellurium.


benstonite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-pyramidal mineral containing barium, calcium, carbon, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and strontium.


bergenite

Bergen in Saxony, Germany, where it can be found, + -ite

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


berlinite

From Berlin + -ite, named in honor of Swedish chemist Nils Johan Berlin.

(mineralogy) A trigonal-trapezohedral mineral containing aluminum, oxygen, and phosphorus.


bermanite

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


bernalite

Named after British crystallographer John Desmond Bernal + -ite

named-after

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


bernardite

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


beudantite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, and sulfur.


beusite

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


bilinite

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


billietite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing barium, hydrogen, oxygen, and uranium.


bismoclite

For its composition, (BISM)uth, (O)xide, and (CL)oride (omitting the H), + -ite.

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


bismutoferrite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic mineral containing bismuth, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and silicon.


blatonite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal canary yellow mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and uranium.


blatterite

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


bobierrite

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


boldyrevite

(mineralogy) An amorphous mineral containing aluminum, calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and sodium.


bolivarite

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


boltwoodite

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


bonattite

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


boralsilite

For its composition, (BOR)on, (AL)uminum, and (SIL)icon, + -ite.

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


borcarite

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


bornemanite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic light yellow mineral containing barium, fluorine, hydrogen, manganese, niobium, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, silicon, sodium, and titanium.


bornhardtite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing cobalt and selenium.


borovskite

Likely borrowed from Russian. Also Borovsky + -ite. Named for Igor Borisovich Borovsky.

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral dark gray mineral containing antimony, palladium, and tellurium.


bostwickite

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


bottinoite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-pyramidal mineral containing antimony, hydrogen, nickel, and oxygen.


boyleite

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


bracewellite

Named after director of British Guyana Geological Survey and professor at the University of the West Indies Smith Bracewell, + -ite.

named-after

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


bradleyite

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


brandholzite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-pyramidal colorless mineral containing antimony, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.


brandtite

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


brannerite

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


bredigite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing calcium, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon.


brendelite

Named after German mining director Christain Friedrich Brendel, + -ite.

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


brenkite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal colorless mineral containing calcium, carbon, fluorine, and oxygen.


brezinaite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic brownish gray mineral containing chromium and sulfur.


brindleyite

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


brockite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-trapezohedral mineral containing calcium, cerium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and thorium.


brunogeierite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing germanium, iron, and oxygen.


buchwaldite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal white mineral containing calcium, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.


buckhornite

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


bukovite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing copper, iron, selenium, and thallium.


bulachite

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


burangaite

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


burbankite

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burbankite (countable and uncountable, plural burbankites)

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


burckhardtite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, lead, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and tellurium.


burnsite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal dark red mineral containing cadmium, chlorine, copper, oxygen, potassium, and selenium.


burtite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral colorless mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and tin.


buryatite

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


bushmakinite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic bright yellow mineral containing aluminum, chromium, copper, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur, vanadium, and zinc.


bussenite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pedial yellowish brown mineral containing barium, calcium, carbon, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, silicon, sodium, strontium, and titanium.


bustamite

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


butlerite

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


buttgenbachite

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


bystrite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal yellow mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and sulfur.


calcioaravaipaite

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


calciobetafite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral reddish brown mineral containing calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, niobium, oxygen, thorium, titanium, and uranium.


calcioburbankite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal pyramidal mineral that includes calcium, carbon, oxygen, sodium, and strontium.


calciocopiapite

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


calcioferrite

calcioferrite (usually uncountable, plural calcioferrites)

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


calciohilairite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-trapezohedral mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, and zirconium.


calciotantite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-trapezohedral colorless mineral containing calcium, niobium, oxygen, and tantalum.


calciouranoite

(mineralogy) A triclinic mineral containing barium, calcium, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, sodium, and uranium.


calcjarlite

For its composition of (CALC)ium and its relationship to jarlite.

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


calcurmolite

For its composition of (CALC)ium, (UR)anium , and (MOL)ybdenum, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic honey yellow mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, molybdenum, oxygen, and uranium.


calderonite

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


callaghanite

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


calumetite

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


calzirtite

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


camerolaite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal blue green mineral containing aluminum, antimony, carbon, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.


camgasite

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


caminite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and sulfur.


campigliaite

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


canaphite

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


canasite

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


canavesite

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


cancrisilite

Named for its relationship to cancrinite with a high (SIL)icon-to-aluminum ratio.

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


cannizzarite

From Cannizzaro + -ite, named after Italian chemist Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826–1910).

named-after

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


cannonite

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


caoxite

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


capgaronnite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal mineral containing bromine, chlorine, iodine, mercury, silver, and sulfur.


caracolite

Named after a town near the type locality, Caracoles, Chile, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral with the chemical formula Na₃Pb₂(SO₄)₃Cl.


carboborite

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


carbocernaite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing barium, calcium, carbon, cerium, oxygen, sodium, and strontium.


caresite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-trapezohedral mineral containing aluminum, carbon, hydrogen, iron, and oxygen.


carlfriesite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic yellow mineral containing calcium, oxygen, and tellurium.


carlhintzeite

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


carlosruizite

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


carlosturanite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic light brown mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and titanium.


carlsbergite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral gray mineral containing chromium and nitrogen.


carmichaelite

Named after American professor of geology at University of California, Berkeley Dr. Ian Stuart Edward Carmichael (1930–2011)

named-after

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


carminite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, arsenic, cobalt, copper, hydrogen, iron, lead, and oxygen.


carpholite

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carpholite (countable and uncountable, plural carpholites)

From Ancient Greek κάρφος (kárphos, “straw”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”) for its appearance of long, slender crystallization and color.

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


carraraite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal milky white mineral containing calcium, carbon, germanium, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.


carrboydite

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


caryinite

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


caryopilite

From Ancient Greek κάρυον (káruon, “nut”) for its brown color and πίλος (pílos, “felt”) for its texture, + -ite.

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


cascandite

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


cassedanneite

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


cassidyite

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


caswellsilverite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral yellow gray mineral containing chromium, sodium, and sulfur.


catalanoite

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


catamarcaite

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


catapleiite

catapleiite (countable and uncountable, plural catapleiites)

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


cattierite

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


cavoite

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


cebollite

Named for type locality Cebolla Creek in Gunnison County, Colorado, + -ite.

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


cechite

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


cerchiaraite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal deep green mineral containing aluminum, barium, chlorine, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


cervelleite

(mineralogy) An isometric mineral containing silver, sulfur, and tellurium.


cesarolite

Named after Italian professor of mineralogy at University of Liége Giuseppe Raimondo Pio Cesàro (1849–1939) + -lite.

named-after

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


cesplumtantite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal colorless mineral containing antimony, calcium, cesium, lead, niobium, oxygen, sodium, tantalum, and tin.


cesstibtantite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing antimony, cesium, fluorine, hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, sodium, and tantalum.


cetineite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-pyramidal mineral containing antimony, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, sodium, and sulfur.


chadwickite

From Chadwick + -ite, after Sir James Chadwick.

(mineralogy) A tetragonal yellow mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, oxygen, and uranium.


chaidamuite

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


chalcoalumite

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


chalcocyanite

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


chalcomenite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal light blue mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and selenium.


chalconatronite

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


chalcophanite

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


chalcosiderite

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


chalcothallite

For its composition, Ancient Greek χαλκός (khalkós, “copper”) and (THALL)ium + -ite.

uder

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


chambersite

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


chamosite

Named after the location Chamoson, Rhone Valley, Switzerland, + -ite

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


changbaiite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing lead, niobium, and oxygen.


changchengite

(mineralogy) An isometric-tetartoidal mineral containing bismuth, iridium, and sulfur.


changoite

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


chantalite

Named after the wife of Halil Sarp (discoverer), Chantal Sarp + -ite.

named-after

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


charlesite

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


chatkalite

Named for type locality Chatkal Range in Uzbekistan, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-scalenohedral pale rose mineral containing copper, iron, sulfur, and tin.


chayesite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal dark blue mineral containing iron, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, and silicon.


chekhovichite

Named after Professor Sergei Konstantinovich Chekhovich (1917-1997), Kazakh mineralogist.
Chekhovich + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal mineral containing bismuth, iron, lead, oxygen, and tellurium.


chelkarite

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


chelyabinskite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic white mineral containing calcium, carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, silicon, and sulfur.


chenevixite

Named after Richard Chenevix (1774-1830), French chemist and the analyst of an arsenate of copper and iron from Cornwall in 1801 that was later shown to be chenevixite.
Chenevix + -ite

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


chengdeite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral steel black mineral containing iridium and iron.


cherepanovite

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


chernikovite

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


chervetite

From Chervet (“a surname”) + -ite; after French mineralogist Jean Chervet.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing lead, oxygen, and vanadium.


chestermanite

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


chiavennite

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


chiluite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal yellow mineral containing bismuth, molybdenum, oxygen, and tellurium.


chiolite

From Ancient Greek χιών (khiṓn, “snow”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”), because of its resemblance to cryolite (also Ancient Greek κρύος (krúos, “cold”)).

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, fluorine, and sodium.

kioliitti

a mineral of aluminum, fluorine and sodium


chloraluminite

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


chlorartinite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal white mineral containing carbon, chlorine, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.


chlorbartonite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal yellowish brown mineral containing chlorine, copper, iron, potassium, and sulfur.


chloromenite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic tobacco green mineral containing chlorine, copper, oxygen, and selenium.


chlorophoenicite

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


chlorothionite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal light blue mineral with the chemical formula K₂Cu(SO₄)Cl₂.


chloroxiphite

From Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “green”) + Ancient Greek ξίφος (xíphos, “sword”) + -ite.

(mineralogy) An olive-green monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing chlorine, copper, hydrogen, lead, and oxygen.


choloalite

From Nahuatl choloa (“evasive”), because it was not found in the type locality mine for several years, + -lite.

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


chrisstanleyite

Chris Stanley, the Deputy Head and Associate Keeper at the Department of Mineralogy at The Natural History Museum in London + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing copper, palladium, selenium, and silver.


chromatite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal lemon mineral containing calcium, chromium, and oxygen.


chrombismite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal mineral containing bismuth, chromium, and oxygen.


chromceladonite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal mineral containing chromium, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, and silicon.


chromdravite

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


chromferide

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral gray white mineral containing chromium and iron.


chromphyllite

For its composition of (CHROM)ium and its micaceous cleavage, Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic emerald green mineral containing aluminum, barium, chromium, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, and silicon.


chudobaite

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


chursinite

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


cianciulliite

From Cianciulli + -ite, named after John Cianciulli, an American mineralogist.

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


ciprianiite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic pale brown mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, boron, calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, lithium, magnesium, oxygen, silicon, thorium, titanium, and uranium.


clairite

From Claire + -ite, after Claire Zingg Martini, wife of Jacques Martini, who discovered and named the mineral.

(mineralogy) A triclinic yellow mineral containing hydrogen, iron, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.


claraite

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


claringbullite

Named after British Keeper of Mineralogy at the Natural History Museum Gordon Frank Claringbull + -ite

named-after

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


clearcreekite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic pale greenish yellow mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, mercury, and oxygen.


clerite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal black mineral containing antimony, manganese, and sulfur.


cliffordite

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


clinobehoite

From clino- + translingual Be (symbol for beryllium) + translingual H (symbol for hydrogen) + translingual O (symbol for oxygen) + -ite.

affix

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


clinobisvanite

From clino- + bis(muth) + van(adium) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing bismuth, oxygen, and vanadium.


clinocervantite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing antimony and oxygen.


clinochalcomenite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic bluish green mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and selenium.


clinochlore

en-noun

clinochlore (countable and uncountable, plural clinochlores)

From clino- + Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “green”).

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


clinoferrosilite

From clino- + ferrosilite, named for being a monoclinic dimorph of ferrosilite.

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


clinoholmquistite

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


clinokurchatovite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic light gray mineral containing boron, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.


clinomimetite

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


clinophosinaite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic light violet mineral containing calcium, oxygen, phosphorus, silicon, sodium, and strontium.


clinosafflorite

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


clinotobermorite

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


clinoungemachite

From clino- + the name of French mineralogist Henri-Leon Ungemach + -ite.

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


coalingite

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


cobaltarthurite

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


cobaltaustinite

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


cobaltkieserite

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


cobaltomenite

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


cochromite

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


comancheite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing bromine, chlorine, mercury, and oxygen.


comblainite

After Gordon Comblain, mineralogist, + -ite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing carbon, cobalt, hydrogen, nickel, and oxygen.


conichalcite

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


cornetite

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


cornubite

From Cornubia (“medieval Latin name of Cornwall”) + -ite.

suffix

(mineralogy) A mineral containing arsenic, copper, hydrogen, and oxygen with chemical formula Cu₅(AsO₄)₂(OH)₄.


coronadite

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


corrensite

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


corvusite

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


cosalite

en-noun

cosalite (countable and uncountable, plural cosalites)

Named for type locality Cosala Mine in Sinaloa, Mexico, + -ite.

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


costibite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal steel gray mineral containing antimony, cobalt, and sulfur.


coulsonite

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


coutinhoite

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


crandallite

Named after American mining engineer Milan Lucian Crandall, Jr. (1880–1959), who worked in the mine where the mineral was discovered, + -ite.

named-after

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


crawfordite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal mineral containing carbon, oxygen, phosphorus, sodium, and strontium.


creaseyite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, copper, hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, and silicon.


crerarite

From Crerar + -ite, after David Crerar, an American geologist.

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral black mineral containing bismuth, lead, platinum, selenium, and sulfur.


criddleite

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


cryolithionite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing aluminum, fluorine, lithium, and sodium.


cryptohalite

From crypto- + halite, because it was mixed in with salammoniac in the type locality. + -ite.

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing fluorine, hydrogen, nitrogen, and silicon.


cubanite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing copper, iron, and sulfur.


cuboargyrite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral grayish black mineral containing antimony, silver, and sulfur.


cuprocopiapite

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


cuproiridsite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral gray mineral containing copper, iridium, and sulfur.


cupropavonite

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


cuprorhodsite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral gray mineral containing copper, rhodium, and sulfur.


cuprorivaite

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


cuprotungstite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.


curetonite

Translingual: Cut

From Cureton + -ite. Named for Forrest and Michael Cureton who found the mineral.

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


curienite

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


cyanochroite

From cyano- + Ancient Greek χρώς (khrṓs) + -ite.

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


cyanophyllite

From Ancient Greek κυανός (kuanós, “blue-green”) + φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”) for its color and crystal habit, + -ite.

uder

(mineralogy, outdated) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal greenish blue mineral containing aluminum, antimony, copper, hydrogen, and oxygen. A polytype of cualstibite, and discredited for such in 2012.


darapiosite

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


darapskite

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


delindeite

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


deloryite

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


delrioite

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


denisovite

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


denningite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing manganese, oxygen, tellurium, and zinc.


derbylite

Named after American geologist and director of the Brazilian Geological Survey Orville Adalbert Derby (1851–1915), who worked in the type locality in Brazil, + -lite.

named-after

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


dervillite

Named after French professor at University of Strasbourg Dr. Henri Derville + -ite.

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


diaphorite

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


dickinsonite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, iron, lithium, manganese, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, and sodium.


dienerite

From Diener + -ite, after Austrian paleontologist Karl Diener (1862-1928).

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral gray white mineral containing arsenic and nickel.


dietrichite

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


dimorphite

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


doloresite

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


donharrisite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic brown mineral containing mercury, nickel, and sulfur.


donpeacorite

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


dorfmanite

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


dorrite

(mineralogy) A triclinic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon.


dugganite

From Duggan + -ite, named after Marjorie Duggan, an analytical chemist.

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, silicon, tellurium, vanadium, and zinc.


dukeite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing bismuth, chromium, hydrogen, and oxygen.


dumontite

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


dundasite

From Dundas + -ite, after Dundas, Tasmania.

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


dusmatovite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal mineral containing lithium, manganese, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, yttrium, zinc, and zirconium.


fahleite

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


fairbankite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal colorless mineral containing lead, oxygen, and tellurium.


fairchildite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal colorless mineral containing calcium, carbon, oxygen, and potassium.


fairfieldite

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


fedorite

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


fedotovite

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


feinglosite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic pale olive green mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, sulfur, and zinc.


feitknechtite

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


fenaksite

Fe (iron) + Na (sodium) + K (potassium) + Si (silicon) + -ite

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


fencooperite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, barium, carbon, chlorine, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and silicon.


ferchromide

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral gray white mineral that is an alloy of chromium and iron.


fermorite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dipyramidal mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and strontium.


fernandinite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic dark green mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and vanadium.


ferrarisite

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


ferrimolybdite

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


ferrinatrite

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


ferristrunzite

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


ferrisurite

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


ferrisymplesite

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


ferritungstite

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


ferrobarroisite

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


ferrobustamite

? + -ite
the mineral was named for the Mexican mineralogist and botanist Miguel Bustamante y Septiem (1790–1844).

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


ferrocarpholite

From ferro- + carpholite, from Latin ferrum (“iron”), for being the ferrous analog of carpholite.

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


ferroceladonite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic dark bluish green mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, potassium, and silicon.


ferrogedrite

en-noun

ferrogedrite (usually uncountable, plural ferrogedrites)

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


ferrohornblende

ferrohornblende (countable and uncountable, plural ferrohornblendes)

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


ferrorhodsite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral black mineral containing copper, iridium, iron, platinum, rhodium, and sulfur.


ferrorichterite

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


ferrotychite

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


ferrowodginite

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


ferruccite

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


fersmanite

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


fersmite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, cerium, fluorine, hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, sodium, tantalum, thorium, titanium, and yttrium.


feruvite

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


fianelite

Named for type locality Fianel mine in Grischun, Switzerland, + -ite.

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


fiedlerite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing chlorine, fluorine, hydrogen, lead, and oxygen.


finnemanite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-pyramidal mineral containing arsenic, chlorine, lead, and oxygen.


fleischerite

From Fleischer + -ite, after mineralogist Michael Fleischer.

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


fletcherite

fletcherite (usually uncountable, plural fletcherites)

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral steel gray mineral containing cobalt, copper, nickel, and sulfur.


florenskyite

After Cyrill P. Florensky, Russian geochemist, + -ite.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal cream white mineral containing iron, nickel, phosphorus, and titanium.


florensovite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral black mineral containing antimony, chromium, copper, and sulfur.


fluellite

For its composition, from French fluate (“fluoride”) of alumine (“aluminum”), + -lite.

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


fluoborite

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


fluornatromicrolite

For its composition, a (FLUOR)ine and (NATR)ium relative of microlite.

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral green mineral containing bismuth, calcium, fluorine, oxygen, sodium, and tantalum.


fluorocannilloite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic greenish gray mineral containing aluminum, calcium, fluorine, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon.


fluorvesuvianite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon (a fluorine analog of vesuvianite.


fluorvesuvianite

it-noun

fluorvesuvianite f (plural fluorvesuvianiti)


formicaite

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


foshallasite

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


fourmarierite

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


fraipontite

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


francevillite

Named for type locality Franceville, Gabon, + -ite.

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


francisite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal light green mineral containing bismuth, chlorine, copper, oxygen, and selenium.


francoanellite

Named after Italian professor of geology Franco Anelli, who discovered the cave where the mineral was discovered, + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A trigonal yellowish white mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, and sodium.


franconite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic white mineral containing hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, and sodium.


frankamenite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pedial mineral containing calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium.


fransoletite

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


franzinite

After Marco Franzini, Italian mineralogist, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A trigonal-trapezohedral pearl white mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and sulfur.


freboldite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal mineral containing cobalt and selenium.


fresnoite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal pyramidal mineral containing barium, oxygen, silicon, and titanium.


freudenbergite

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


friedelite

Named after French chemist and mineralogist Charles Friedel (1832–1899), + -ite.

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


galeite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing chlorine, fluorine, oxygen, sodium, and sulfur.


galkhaite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral mineral containing antimony, arsenic, cesium, copper, mercury, sulfur, thallium, and zinc.


gallite

For its composition, an ore of (GALL)ium, + -ite.

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


ganomalite

From Ancient Greek γάνωμα (gánōma, “glaze”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”), for its distinct adamantine luster.

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


ganophyllite

en-noun

ganophyllite (usually uncountable, plural ganophyllites)

From Ancient Greek γάνωμα (gánōma, “glaze”) + φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”), for its luster and flat, platy appearance, + -ite.

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


ganterite

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


garavellite

Named after Italian mineralogist Professor C. L. Garavelli, + -ite.

named-after

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


garronite

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


gartrellite

Named after Australian mineral collector Blair J. Gartrell (1950–1995) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A triclinic mineral containing arsenic, carbon, copper, hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, and sulfur.


garyansellite

Named after Canadian mineralogist H. Gary Ansell + -ite.

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


gatumbaite

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


gaudefroyite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-pyramidal black mineral containing boron, calcium, carbon, hydrogen, manganese, and oxygen.


gaultite

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


gebhardite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic light brown mineral containing arsenic, chlorine, lead, and oxygen.


geffroyite

Geffroyite was named in honor of Jaques Geffroy, a metallurgist for the French Atomic Energy Commission.
geffroy + -ite

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


genkinite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-trapezohedral gray mineral containing antimony, palladium, and platinum.


genthelvite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral mineral containing beryllium, oxygen, silicon, sulfur, and zinc.


georgechaoite

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


georgeite

(mineralogy) An amorphous light blue mineral containing carbon, copper, hydrogen, and oxygen.


georgiadesite

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


gerdtremmelite

Named after German mineral collector Dr. Gerd Tremmel + -ite.

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


gerhardtite

From Gerhardt + -ite, after Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816-1856), a chemist who first prepared the artificial compound.

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


germanocolusite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral mineral containing arsenic, copper, germanium, sulfur, and vanadium.


gerstleyite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic mineral containing antimony, arsenic, hydrogen, oxygen, sodium, and sulfur.


gerstmannite

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


getchellite

en-noun

getchellite (usually uncountable, plural getchellites)

Named for type locality, Getchell Mine in Humboldt County, Nevada, + -ite.

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


geversite

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal steel gray mineral containing antimony, bismuth, and platinum.


gianellaite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral mineral containing mercury, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.


giessenite

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


gilalite

Named for type locality, Gila County, Arizona, + -lite.

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


gillespite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal red mineral containing barium, iron, oxygen, and silicon.


gillulyite

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


gilmarite

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


giniite

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


ginorite

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


giraudite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral mineral containing antimony, arsenic, copper, selenium, silver, sulfur, and zinc.


girdite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and tellurium.


girvasite

гирвас (girvas) + -ite. Named for Lake Girvas in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, where the mineral was found. The name of the lake is probably of Sami origin, likely from Kildin Sami сарьвэсь (sar’ves’).

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


gittinsite

From Gittins + -ite, named after petrologist John Gittins.

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


gladiusite

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


glaucocerinite

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


glaukosphaerite

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


godlevskite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal bronze yellow mineral containing iron, nickel, and sulfur.


goedkenite

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


goldfieldite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral mineral containing antimony, arsenic, copper, sulfur, and tellurium.


goldichite

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


goldmanite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing aluminum, calcium, iron, oxygen, silicon, and vanadium.


gonnardite

gonnardite (countable and uncountable, plural gonnardites)

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


gonyerite

From Gonyer + -ite, named for Forest A. Gonyer, a chemist-analyst and mineralogist from Harvard University.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


goosecreekite

From Goose Creek (its type locality) + -ite.

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


gorceixite

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


gordaite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-pyramidal sulfate chloride mineral with the chemical formula NaZn₄(SO₄)(OH)₆Cl · 6H₂O.


gordonite

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


gortdrumite

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


graemite

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


graeserite

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


grandidierite

From Grandidier + -ite; named after French naturalist and explorer Alfred Grandidier (1836–1921).

named-after

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal bluish green mineral containing aluminum, boron, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon.


grandreefite

From Grand Reef + -ite; named for the location in which it was discovered in 1989, the Grand Reef Mine in Graham County, Arizona.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing fluorine, lead, oxygen, and sulfur.


grantsite

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


gravegliaite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal colorless mineral containing hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and sulfur.


grayite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-trapezohedral mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, phosphorus, and thorium.


grimaldiite

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


grimselite

Named for type locality Grimsel, Switzerland, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-ditrigonal dipyramidal yellow mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, sodium, and uranium.


grischunite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal dark reddish brown mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and sodium.


grossite

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


groutite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal blue black mineral containing hydrogen, manganese, and oxygen.


grumantite

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


guarinoite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal mineral containing chlorine, cobalt, hydrogen, nickel, oxygen, sulfur, and zinc.


gudmundite

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


guettardite

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