disthene

Ancient Greek twice + force: compare French disthène. So called in allusion to its unequal hardness in two different directions, or from its positive and negative electric properties.


phenacite

(mineralogy) Alternative spelling of phenakite


phacolite

(mineralogy) A colourless variety of chabazite.


peagrit

en-noun

peagrit (usually uncountable, plural peagrits)

(mineralogy) A coarse pisolitic limestone.


glist

Phosphate ore, mineral salt, graphite, glist, barites, abrasive

2018, Tianming Gao, Vasilii Erokhin, Xiuhua Zhang, Handbook of Research on International Collaboration, Economic Development, and Sustainability in the Arctic, page 168:


triphane

triphane (countable and uncountable, plural triphanes)

Ancient Greek, meaning "appearing threefold".


toph

toph (countable and uncountable, plural tophs)

From Latin tophus, tofus (“tufa, or tuft”). Compare tufa, tofus, tophus.


ceylanite

ceylanite (countable and uncountable, plural ceylanites)

From French, from Ceylan (“Ceylon”) + -ite.

(mineralogy) Alternative spelling of ceylonite


dendrachate

From Latin dendrachates, from Ancient Greek δένδρον (déndron, “tree”) + ἀχάτης (akhátēs, “agate”).

(mineralogy) An arborescent or dendritic agate.


rhaetizite

So called from Latin Rhaetia, Raetia (“the Rhetian Alps”), where it is found, + -ite.

(obsolete, mineralogy) A variety of the mineral kyanite.


wadd

wadd (countable and uncountable, plural wadds)


strontia

From strontium + -a. Ultimately after Strontian, the Scottish village where strontium (and the mineral strontianite) was discovered.

1829, Jacob Green, A Text Book of Chemical Philosophy, R. H. Small, page 247,
From the close resemblance between baryta and strontia, these substances were once supposed to be identical.

1825 [Clara F. Cutbush], James Cutbush, A System of Pyrotechny, 2018, Outlook Verlag, page 230,
Nitrate of strontia deflagrates on ignited coals Dr. Hope pointed out, that if nitrate of strontia be exposed to a red heat, and a combustible substance be, at this time, brought in contact with it, a deflagration, with a very vivid red flame, will be produced.

1866, C. Remigius Fresenius, Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, 2021, Salzwasser Verlag, page 103,
The solution of sulphate of strontia in hydrochloric acid is made turbid by chloride of barium, after addition of water.

(mineralogy) A pale earth composed of strontium oxide (SrO).

Strontiumoxid

a pale earth composed of strontium oxide


palagonite

(mineralogy) A material similar to basalt formed by the action of water on volcanic ash


amphigene

amphigene (countable and uncountable, plural amphigenes)


stinkstone

stinkstone (countable and uncountable, plural stinkstones)

(mineralogy) One of the varieties of calcite, barite, and feldspar that emit a foetid odour on being struck.


potash-felspar

(obsolete, mineralogy) potassium feldspar


salamstone

(mineralogy, obsolete) A kind of blue sapphire brought from Ceylon.[1820]


sahlite

(mineralogy, obsolete) Alternative form of salite


picrolite

picrolite (countable and uncountable, plural picrolites)

From Ancient Greek πικρός (pikrós, “bitter”) + -lite: compare French picrolithe.

(mineralogy) A fibrous variety of serpentine.


calaite

calaite (countable and uncountable, plural calaites)


cleveite

(mineralogy) A crystalline variety of uraninite.


saussurite

saussurite (countable and uncountable, plural saussurites)

(mineralogy) A tough, compact mineral aggregate, of a white, greenish, or greyish colour. It is an aggregate of albite, zoisite, prehnite and other aluminium silicates, and is produced by the alteration of feldspar.


cipolin

cipolin (countable and uncountable, plural cipolins)

From Italian cipollino (“a little onion”), from cipolla (“onion”) (compare English cibol). So called because its veins consist, like onions, of different strata, one lying upon another.

(mineralogy) A whitish marble from Rome, containing pale greenish zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc.


sinopite

sinopite (usually uncountable, plural sinopites)

From French [Term?], from Latin sinopis (terra) (“a red earth or ocher found in Sinope”), from Sinope (“a town in Paphlagoma, on the Black Sea”).


porcelanite

en-noun

porcelanite (countable and uncountable, plural porcelanites)

(mineralogy) A semivitrified clay or shale, somewhat resembling jasper; porcelain jasper.


saltfoot

A large salt cellar formerly placed near the centre of the table, with the superior guests seated above it.


allemontite

(mineralogy) The mineral form of antimony arsenide (SbAs).


lautite

(mineralogy) A mixed arsenide and sulfide of copper from Lauta near Marienberg, Saxony


sulfoselenide

(inorganic chemistry) Any compound (or mineral) that is both a sulfide and a selenide.


umagite

(mineralogy) A mineral selenide of copper Cu₃Se₂


macle

Borrowed from French macle, which in turn derives either from Latin macula (from Italic) or from Latin mascula (from Germanic). See mascle for more.

(mineralogy) Chiastolite; so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross-section.


covelline

covelline (countable and uncountable, plural covellines)


carpathite

Named after Carpathian mountains + -ite, originally karpatite in English

(mineralogy) A rare hydrocarbon mineral composed of coronene.


sovite

sovite (countable and uncountable, plural sovites)

(mineralogy) A coarse-grained carbonatite.


saxonite

saxonite (countable and uncountable, plural saxonites)

(mineralogy) Harzburgite, a peridotite consisting mostly of olivine and low-calcium pyroxene.

Peridotite composed of olivine and enstatite.


ataxite

(mineralogy) A type of iron meteorite that has a high nickel content


hexahedrite

(mineralogy) A type of iron meteorite composed mostly of kamacite.


lodranite

(mineralogy) A type of meteorite containing orthopyroxene, olivine, diopside and plagioclase


rhizolite

(mineralogy) A type of tectite meteorite


chlorophane

chlorophane (countable and uncountable, plural chlorophanes)

From chloro- + -phane. Compare French chlorophane.

CHLOROPHANE. The Amelia Court House, Va., locality yields a bluegreen fluorescing chlorophane. Kunz and Baskerville qualitatively studied the emission from Chlorophane in 1903. (See also the discussion for Fluorite which is also […]

2013, Jack DeMent, Handbook of Fluorescent Gems and Minerals - An Exposition and Catalog of the Fluorescent and Phosphorescent Gems and Minerals, Including the Use of Ultraviolet Light in the Earth Sciences, Read Books Ltd, →ISBN:

Chlorophane is the name given to those varieties of Fluorite (Fluorspar Calcium Fluoride), which possess to a noticeable extent the property of “thermo-luminosity ," that is to say, of spontaneous_' emitting light when heated. The temperature […]

1904, Knowledge...: A Monthly Record of Science, page 72:

the light from chlorophane is incomparably less intense than that from a common lamp. For there can be no doubt that each of the ten discharges gave a light which lasted brilliantly for six seconds, and upon the whole was equal in duration […]

1851, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, page 94:

(mineralogy) A variety of fluorspar, which, when heated, gives a striking emerald-green light.


antozonite

(mineralogy) A radioactive variety of fluorite, containing traces of elemental fluorine gas.


fluocerite

fluocerite (countable and uncountable, plural fluocerites)

Fluocerite in the matrass yields water and at the melting point of glass the matrass is attacked at a distance from the assay.

1875 [1835], Karl Friedrich Plattner, translated by Henry B. Cornwall, Plattner's Manual of Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis with the Blowpipe, translation of Die Probierkunst mit dem Löthrohr (in German), page 202:

From an analysis of a specimen from Broddbo, Berzelius considered it a combination of the fluorine and the fluoride of cerium. The name fluocerite was given by Haidinger. Crystallographic data about the fluocerite from Broddbo have been published by A. E. Nordenskiöld and G. Flink.

1921, Per Geijer, “On Fluocerite and Tysonite”, in Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar, volume 43:

This shows that all fluocerites are strongly enriched in LRE but the proportions vary as shown by the sum of La + Ce + Pr which varies from 70 to 96% of the total RE content.

1983, Mineralogical magazine, volume 47, page 42:

(mineralogy) A cerium fluoride mineral found in Sweden.


chlormanganokalite

(mineralogy) A trigonal mineral, K₄MnCl₆, which occurs in yellow rhombohedra.


chiastolite slate

chiastolite slate (plural chiastolite slates)

(mineralogy) A rock formed by contact metamorphism of carbonaceous shale, characterized by prominent cleavage or schistosity and the presence of conspicuous chiastolite crystals in a fine-grained groundmass.


uran-ochre

(mineralogy) A yellow, earthy incrustation, consisting essentially of the oxide of uranium, but more or less impure.


retinasphalt

Ancient Greek ῥητίνη (rhētínē, “resin”) + ἄσφαλτος (ásphaltos, “asphalt”).


romeite

romeite (countable and uncountable, plural romeites)

From Romé + -ite, named after the French mineralogist Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle. See French roméine.

(mineralogy) A yellow hexoctahedral calcium antimonate mineral with the chemical formula (Ca,Fe,Mn,Na)₂(Sb,Ti)₂O₆(O,OH,F).


elkerite

(mineralogy) A subgroup of pyrobitumens rich in oxygen and partly soluble in alkali, resembling an earthy brown coal and probably representing a product of intense weathering of bitumens.


iridosmine

iridosmine (countable and uncountable, plural iridosmines)

A native compound of iridium and osmium.


helvite

(mineralogy) A yellowish mineral consisting chiefly of silica, beryllium, manganese, iron, and sulfur. Its chemical formula is Mn₄Be₃(SiO₄)₃S.


missourite

missourite (countable and uncountable, plural missourites)

(mineralogy) A leucite-augite rock, resembling ijolite but with leucite in place of nepheline.


fusinite

(mineralogy) An inertinite maceral that preserves some features of the plant cell wall structure.


huminite

(mineralogy) A form of vitrinite that has a dull, non-glassy appearance.


macrinite

(mineralogy) An amorphous form of maceral


skolezite

(mineralogy) Alternative form of scolecite


hureaulite

hureaulite (countable and uncountable, plural hureaulites)

(mineralogy) A manganese phosphate mineral occurring in granite pegmatites.


ferrierite

ferrierite (countable and uncountable, plural ferrierites)

(mineralogy) Any of a group of orthorhombic zeolite minerals.


manganaxinite

manganaxinite (countable and uncountable, plural manganaxinites)

(mineralogy) A yellow-orange manganese-rich form of axinite.


cervandonite

cervandonite (countable and uncountable, plural cervandonites)

Named after the location where it was first described, Pizzo Cervandone (Scherbadung), Italy in the Central Alps, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A rare arsenosilicate mineral.


julgoldite

Named after Professor Julian Goldsmith of the University of Chicago, with -ite.

(mineralogy) A particular pumpellyite mineral.


mckelveyite

From McKelvey + -ite, after Vincent Ellis McKelvey (1916–1985), a former director of the United States Geological Survey.

(mineralogy) A particular hydrated carbonate mineral.


naldrettite

From Naldrett + -ite, after Anthony J. Naldrett (born 1933).

(mineralogy) A mineral with a chemical formula of Pd₂Sb.


whiteite

From White + -ite, named after John Sampson White Jr (born 1933).

(mineralogy) A rare monoclinic hydrated phosphate mineral.


kesterite

kesterite (countable and uncountable, plural kesterites)

(mineralogy) A sulfide mineral with formula Cu₂(Zn,Fe)SnS₄.


fluorapophyllite

fluorapophyllite (countable and uncountable, plural fluorapophyllites)

fluorapophyllite fluorapophyllite (canonical)
fluorapophyllites (plural)

(mineralogy) A particular apophyllite mineral with more fluorine than hydroxide compared to similar minerals.


josephinite

From Josephine + -ite, after Josephine County, Oregon, where it is found.


pääkkönenite

From Pääkkönen + -ite, after Viekko Pääkkönen, Finnish geologist.

(mineralogy) A metallic grey mineral with the molecular formula Sb₂AsS₂.


stillwellite

Named after Australian mineralogist Frank Leslie Stillwell (1888–1963), + -ite. As a rare earth mineral ore, it usually requires a suffix of the element (i.e. Stillwellite-(Ce)).

named-after

(mineralogy) A trigonal-pyramidal rare earth borosilicate mineral.


fluorellestadite

en-noun

fluorellestadite (countable and uncountable, plural fluorellestadites)

(mineralogy) A rare nesosilicate of calcium, with sulfate and fluorine, belonging to the apatite group.


clinoptilolite

clinoptilolite (countable and uncountable, plural clinoptilolites)

From clino- + ptilolite, for being a monoclinic form of ptilolite (a synonym of mordenite). Usually given a suffix of the dominant alkali element.

(mineralogy) A natural zeolite comprising a microporous arrangement of silica and alumina tetrahedra.


hatchettite

From Hatchett + -ite, after the discoverer, Charles Hatchett.

(mineralogy) Mineral tallow; a waxy or spermaceti-like substance, commonly of a greenish-yellow colour.


abukumalite

Named for type locality Abukuma River (in Japan) where it was mined + -lite.

(mineralogy, outdated) A mineral, (Ca,Y)₅(P,Si)₃O₁₂(OH,F), that can contain uranium or thorium. The mineral was renamed britholite-(Y) in 1966 because of its similarity to britholite and because of its yttrium-dominant composition.


periclasite

periclasite (usually uncountable, plural periclasites)


pyrrhotine

pyrrhotine (countable and uncountable, plural pyrrhotines)


acadialite

(mineralogy) A mineral found in Nova Scotia consisting of red chabazite.


smaltine

smaltine (usually uncountable, plural smaltines)


Chile saltpetre

(mineralogy) A mineral rich in sodium nitrate that occurs naturally in parts of Chile and Peru.


puddingstone

puddingstone (usually uncountable, plural puddingstones)

/ˈpʊdɪŋˌstəʊn/

It looks like a sort of puddingstone [translating Totliegende], but it must be older, primary or even porphyritic.

1962, JW Goethe, translated by WH Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 25:

A conglomerate stone consisting of pebbles surrounded by cement.


black-jack

black-jack (countable and uncountable, plural black-jacks)

(uncountable, obsolete, mineralogy, UK) Sphalerite; zincblende.


plumbocalcite

(mineralogy) A variety of calcite that contains some lead carbonate.


sardoin

sardoin (countable and uncountable, plural sardoins)


sappare

Borrowed from French sappare, so called by Saussure.


polluxite

From Pollux + -ite; see pollux (“a mineral”).


castorite

From Castor + -ite; see castor (“a mineral”).


pollux

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πολυδεύκης (Poludeúkēs), from Greek mythology; also see etymology at castor (“a mineral”).

(mineralogy) A variety of petalite always found with castor.


pearlstone

pearlstone (countable and uncountable, plural pearlstones)


glance coal

glance coal (countable and uncountable, plural glance coals)

(mineralogy) Any hard, lustrous coal such as anthracite.


schönite

(mineralogy) A double sulfate of potassium and magnesium K₂Mg(SO₄)₂.6H₂O


itabirite

From Itabira (“place name in Brazil”) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A laminated form of quarzite with muscovite or other iron minerals.


black copper

(mineralogy) A mineral form of cupric oxide


söhngeite

(mineralogy) A mineral form of gallium hydroxide, Ga(OH)₃


alvite

(mineralogy) A silicate of hafnium, thorium and zirconium


blomstrandine

blomstrandine (countable and uncountable, plural blomstrandines)

(mineralogy) A basic oxide mineral containing a mixture of several rare earths


hydroxylbastnäsite

(mineralogy) A basic mixed carbonate and fluoride of cerium and lanthanum


rhabdophane

(mineralogy) Any of a range of phosphate minerals containing varying amounts of several lanthanides


synchysite

(mineralogy) Any of a range of calcium carbonate / calcium fluoride minerals that contain varying amounts of lanthanides


tetraferriphlogopite

tetraferriphlogopite (countable and uncountable, plural tetraferriphlogopites)

(mineralogy) Unusually iron-rich phlogopite.


orangeite

orangeite (countable and uncountable, plural orangeites)

From orange + -ite, named after Orange Free State.

(mineralogy) A kind of kimberlite with phlogopite macrocrysts and microphenocrysts.


imogolite

imogolite (countable and uncountable, plural imogolites)

From Japanese 芋子 (imogo, “brownish-yellow soil derived from volcanic ash”) + -lite.

der

(mineralogy) An aluminium silicate clay mineral found in soils formed from volcanic ash.


kandite

(mineralogy) Any of a group of clay minerals that includes halloysite.


tangeite

From Tange + -ite after discovery locality in the Tange Gorge, Ferghana Valley, Alai Mountains, Kyrgyzstan.

(mineralogy) A calcium, copper vanadate mineral, CaCu(VO₄)(OH)


hydroxykenomicrolite

From hydroxy- + kenomicrolite, derived from hydrokenomicrolite and for having a hydroxide anion. The keno- prefix embedded derives from κενός (kenós, “empty”) and is used often in microlite-group minerals for an unknown reason, apparently for a lack of something in the crystalline structure.

(mineralogy) A microlite mineral that is a basic tantalate of sodium and tin


mohawkite

From Mohawk + -ite, after discovery locality in the Mohawk Mine, Mohawk, Michigan, United States.

(mineralogy) A copper ore and discredited mineral species composed of arsenic and copper, Cu₃As up to Cu₆As.


nephelite

From Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”) + -ite.


keweenawite

From Keweenaw + -ite, after discovery locality in the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, United States.

(mineralogy) A copper ore and discredited mineral species composed of arsenic, copper, nickel, and cobalt.


zincolivenite

From zinc + olivenite, after its composition of zinc and olivenite.

(mineralogy) A mineral species of the olivenite group, CuZn(AsO₄)(OH)


thucholite

en-noun

thucholite (countable and uncountable, plural thucholites)

From the chemical symbols for thorium, uranium, carbon and hydrogen (Th, U, C, H), and -ite.

(mineralogy) A radioactive pyrobitumen mineral.


asphaltite

asphaltite (countable and uncountable, plural asphaltites)

(mineralogy) Any of various bitumens containing asphaltenes.


desert rose

/dɪˈzɜːt ɹəʊz/

(mineralogy) A rosette of gypsum or barite crystals formed under certain conditions.


glassy feldspar

glassy feldspar (plural glassy feldspars)


whet slate

whet slate (countable and uncountable, plural whet slates)

(mineralogy) A variety of slate used for sharpening cutting instruments; novaculite; oilstone.


riband jasper

riband jasper (countable and uncountable, plural riband jaspers)

(mineralogy) A variety of jasper with stripes of different colours.


copper barilla

(mineralogy) Native copper in granular form mixed with sand, an ore brought from Bolivia


lapis calaminaris

From Medieval Latin lapis calamīnāris, from lapis (“stone, mineral”) + calamīnāris (“of or related to calamine”), from calamīna (“calamine”) + -āris (“-ary: forming adjectives”), from Latin cadmia, from Ancient Greek κᾰδμῐ́ᾱ (kadmíā), variant of Κᾰδμείᾱ (Kadmeíā), from Κάδμος (Kádmos, “Cadmus”) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming related substances”). Doublet of cadmia, calamine, and calaminaris.

doublet

(mineralogy, archaic) Synonym of calamine, a pink form of zinc oxide formed as a byproduct during sublimation.


hexacelsian

(mineralogy) A hexagonal polymorph of celsian.


naumannite

(mineralogy) A mineral form of silver selenide (Ag₂Se)


mazzite

en-noun

mazzite (countable and uncountable, plural mazzites)


yttrium iron garnet

yttrium iron garnet (plural yttrium iron garnets)

(mineralogy) A synthetic mineral used for its special magnetic/optical properties


hand sanitizer

hand sanitizer (countable and uncountable, plural hand sanitizers)

(mineralogy) A disinfecting liquid, most often based on ethyl alcohol, used as an alternative to washing the hands with soap and water.


indianaite

(mineralogy) A variety of halloysite found in Indiana.


horn silver

(mineralogy) A weathered form of chlorargyrite


kongsbergite

(mineralogy) A variety of silver containing about 5% mercury


hepatic cinnabar

(mineralogy) An impure cinnabar of a liver-brown colour and submetallic lustre.


Highgate resin

Found in blue clay at Highgate, near London, England.


hibschite

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


brown spar

brown spar (countable and uncountable, plural brown spars)

(mineralogy) A ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite.


gold amalgam

Refined gold, when finely ground and brought into contact with mercury where the surfaces of both metals are clean, amalgamates readily and quickly to form alloys ranging from AuHg2 to Au8Hg.


lead glance

lead glance (usually uncountable, plural lead glances)


moss agate

moss agate (countable and uncountable, plural moss agates)

(mineralogy) A variety of agate with brown, black, or green moss-like or dendritic markings, due in part to manganese oxide.


mountain leather

A variety of asbestos with a leather-like texture.


mountain soap

It soils either strongly, as chalk and mountain soap; or slightly, as molybdana, lead glauce, and graphite. Besides this, there are three other distinctions connected with this character to be attended to.

1805, Robert Jameson, A Treatise on the External Characters of Minerals, page 76:

[…] seven different minerals possessing the same formula, namely, fahlunite, esmarkite, pyrargillite, bole, iron lithomarge, halloylite from La Vouth and from Thiviers, and mountain soap from Thuringia.

1848, American Journal of Science and Arts, page 72:

Sometimes, after removing the coating of calcspar from the crystals, they appear to be covered with a mass resembling steinmark or mountain soap. The compact and crystalline hornblende occurs almost everywhere as a constituent of the[…]

1859, Gustav Bischof, Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology ..., page 311:

(possibly obsolete) A soft earthy mineral, of a brownish colour, which has a greasy or soapy feel and is used as a filler in crayons.


niigataite

(mineralogy) A particular epidote mineral.


pearl spar

pearl spar (countable and uncountable, plural pearl spars)

A crystallized variety of dolomite, having a pearly lustre.


black tin

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(mining, mineralogy) Tin ore (cassiterite), when dressed, stamped and washed, ready for smelting. It is in the form of a black powder, like fine sand.


icosahedrite

(mineralogy) A mineral, Al₆₃Cu₂₄Fe₁₃, that represents the only known natural occurrence of quasicrystals.


feather ore

feather ore (usually uncountable, plural feather ores)

(mineralogy) A variety of jamesonite, sometimes found in capillary forms and like a cobweb, but also massive.


arkansite

Mr. Ward has presented me with specimens of the Arkansite, and also with specimens of the Thermalite, and I have recently received from him at two different times, via New Orleans, various other geologicacl specimens of great interest, and also an aqualogical specimen, being a bottle of the water of the Hot Springs, which when taken from the spring was of the temperature of 148° of Farenheit.

1846 April 2, “The Arkansite & Thermalite”, in New York Municipal Gazette, volume 1, number 40, page 545:

Some crystals of arkansite from Magnet Cove, which I obtained some time ago through Mr. B. Hurtz, are in many respects very remarkable, and different from those usually obtained at the above locality.

1880, Catalogue of Minerals & Tables of the Species:

One of the rare minerals found in Magnet Cove, which has attracted wide attention among students of geology, is Arkansite (Titanic acid or Brookite).

1920, Outlines of the Geology, Soils and Minerals of the State of Arkansas:


ægirite

(mineralogy, rare) Alternative spelling of aegirite


aegirite

aegirite (countable and uncountable, plural aegirites)


binghamite

From Bingham + -ite, after William Bingham, a lapidary, who discovered it in 1936.

A type of agate stone found in Minnesota.


siberite

(mineralogy) A violet form of tourmaline sometimes used as a gemstone.


zonochlorite

(mineralogy) chlorastrolite found in rounded masses within or weathered out of amygdaloidal cavities


uigite

From Uig + -ite, after the village on Skye.

(mineralogy) A variety of chlorastrolite found on the island of Skye.


chlorastrolite

chlorastrolite (countable and uncountable, plural chlorastrolites)

From Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “green”) + ἄστρον (ástron, “star”) (in allusion to its appearance) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”).

(mineralogy) A green or bluish variety of pumpellyite.


syntagmatite

syntagmatite (countable and uncountable, plural syntagmatites)

(mineralogy) A basaltic variety of hornblende.


mtorolite

From the mining town of Mtoroshanga, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A green variety of chalcedony, coloured by small quantities of chromium.


zinckenite

(mineralogy) A sulfosalt mineral containing lead and antimony.


nelsonite

nelsonite (countable and uncountable, plural nelsonites)

(mineralogy) A rock consisting of apatite and ilmenite.


dachiardite

dachiardite (countable and uncountable, plural dachiardites)

After Antonio D'Achiardi, Italian geologist, + -ite

(mineralogy) A particular zeolite mineral.


nepouite

French népouite, after Népoui in New Caledonia, where it was first discovered.

(mineralogy) A rare apple-green nickel silicate mineral.


wilkeite

From Wilke + -ite, in honour of R. M. Wilke, a mineral collector and dealer.


köttigite

From Köttig + -ite, in honour of Otto Friedrich Köttig (1824-1892), German chemist who first analysed it.

(mineralogy) A rare hydrated zinc arsenate mineral.


hiärneite

From Hiärne + -ite, after the Swedish geologist Urban Hiärne (1641-1727).

(mineralogy) An oxide mineral containing antimony and zirconium.


daubreeite

Named for French mineralogist Gabriel Auguste Daubrée (1814–1896).

(mineralogy) A rare bismuth oxide–halide mineral of the matlockite group.


stützite

From Stütz + -ite, after Austrian mineralogist Andreas Xavier Stütz (1747–1806).

(mineralogy) A particular silver telluride mineral.


serandite

serandite (usually uncountable, plural serandites)

French sérandite, named for J. M. Sérand.

(mineralogy) An often reddish mineral of the wollastonite group. It is the manganese analogue of pectolite.


alterite

alterite (countable and uncountable, plural alterites)

(mineralogy) A rare yellow-green mineral with the chemical formula Zn2Fe3+4(SO4)4(C2O4)2(OH)4·17H2O.


K-spar

From K (“potassium”) and a shortening of feldspar.

(mineralogy, informal) potassic feldspar


pot lead

graphite, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to reduce friction


bioapatite

bioapatite (countable and uncountable, plural bioapatites)

(biochemistry, mineralogy) A form of calcium phosphate that is the major component in the mineralised part of vertebrate bone teeth, and in case of fish, scales.


geocerite

(mineralogy) A white, flaky, waxlike resin of approximate composition C₂₇ H₅₃ O₂ in brown coal.


miaskite

miaskite (countable and uncountable, plural miaskites)


Bristol diamond

Bristol diamond (countable and uncountable, plural Bristol diamonds)

(geology, mineralogy) A form of quartz crystal found within geodes of the Avon Gorge.


adamellite

adamellite (countable and uncountable, plural adamellites)

From Mount Adamello, location of rocks described by the previous meaning of "adamellite", "orthoclase-bearing tonalite in the Adamello Massif," + -ite.


shonkinite

shonkinite (countable and uncountable, plural shonkinites)

From Shonkin + -ite, after the type locality at Shonkin Sag in the Highwood Mountains of north-central Montana.

(mineralogy) A kind of mafic foidal syenite.


eucolite

eucolite (countable and uncountable, plural eucolites)

From Ancient Greek εὔκολος (eúkolos, “easily satisfied”) + -ite, relating to the etymology for eudialyte.

affix

(mineralogy) An optically negative variety of eudialyte.


sulfantimonite

(mineralogy) A mixed sulfide / antimonide (such as zinkenite or keeleyite)


china clay

en-noun

china clay (countable and uncountable, plural china clays)

From its chief original use in Jingdezhen, China.

Particularly engaging management's attention is the expanding market for china clay, which is mined in a sector of the Cornwall peninsula between St Austell in the south and Newquay in the north.

1964 July, G. Freeman Allen, “The Traffic Divisions of British Railways–2: Plymouth—test-bed for road-rail co-ordination: Part Two”, in Modern Railways, page 29:


trondhjemite

trondhjemite (countable and uncountable, plural trondhjemites)

(mineralogy) A leucocratic intrusive igneous rock, a variety of tonalite in which the plagioclase is mostly in the form of oligoclase.


polyhydrite

(mineralogy) An amorphous aluminosilicate of iron (with some manganese)


manganpyrosmalite

manganpyrosmalite (usually uncountable, plural manganpyrosmalites)


onegite

(mineralogy) A form of amethyst having hair-like inclusions of goethite


nebulite

(mineralogy) A chorismite in which one of the textural elements occurs in lenticular masses that have indistinct boundaries.


jachymovite

(mineralogy) A basic uranyl sulfate found associated with dolomite.


kröhnkite

From Kröhnke + -ite, named after B. Kröhnke, who first researched it.

(mineralogy) A rare copper sulfate mineral with chemical formula Na₂Cu(SO₄)₂•2H₂O.


acmite

acmite (countable and uncountable, plural acmites)

From ἀκμή (akmḗ), meaning "point, edge", for its typically spiky crystals + -ite.


phengite

phengite (countable and uncountable, plural phengites)

From Latin phengites, from Ancient Greek φέγγος (phéngos). Doublet of fengite.

(mineralogy) Any of a series of dioctahedral micas of composition K(AlMg)₂(OH)₂(SiAl)₄O₁₀, similar to muscovite but with addition of magnesium.


studerite

(mineralogy, obsolete) A varietal form of tennantite containing, as partial replacement of normal copper content, silver, lead, zinc, and iron.


copaline

copaline (usually uncountable, plural copalines)

(mineralogy) Partly mineralized copal; an organic substance found as irregular pieces of a pale yellow colour.


oxyhydroxysulfate

However, Wang and Zhou reported similar results in iron oxyhydroxysulfate mineral jarosite bio-synthesis systems.

2015 September 24, “Schwertmannite Synthesis through Ferrous Ion Chemical Oxidation under Different H 2 O 2 Supply Rates and Its Removal Efficiency for Arsenic from Contaminated Groundwater”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(inorganic chemistry, mineralogy) Any material having oxide, hydroxide and sulfate groups.


fluorophlogopite

fluorophlogopite (countable and uncountable, plural fluorophlogopites)

The film with a thickness of 10 nm is grown by van der Waals epitaxy on fluorophlogopite mica and Hall-bar devices are fabricated from the as-grown film directly on the mica substrate.

2015, Yumei Jing, Shaoyun Huang, Kai Zhang, Jinxiong Wu, Yunfan Guo, Hailin Peng, Zhongfan Liu, H. Q. Xu, “Weak antilocalization and electron-electron interaction in coupled multiple-channel transport in a Bi₂Se₃ thin film”, in arXiv:

(mineralogy) A fluorine-rich variety of phlogopite.


lydite

lydite (countable and uncountable, plural lydites)


boromagnesite

(mineralogy) A mineral composed of calcium carbonate and borate


foyaite

foyaite (countable and uncountable, plural foyaites)

From Foya + -ite, after the part of Portugal where they can be found.

(mineralogy) A K-feldspar-nepheline syenite mineral containing a proportion of ferromagnesian minerals, usually pyroxene, hornblende, and biotite.


laurdalite

laurdalite (countable and uncountable, plural laurdalites)

(mineralogy) A grey or pinkish nepheline syenite mineral.


redruthite

redruthite (usually uncountable, plural redruthites)


schorlomite

schorlomite (countable and uncountable, plural schorlomites)

(mineralogy) An isometric garnet mineral.


cornstone

cornstone (countable and uncountable, plural cornstones)

(mineralogy) A kind of marly siliceous rock.


alumstone

alumstone (usually uncountable, plural alumstones)


copper sulphide

(mineralogy, inorganic chemistry) Alternative spelling of copper sulfide


charnockite

charnockite (countable and uncountable, plural charnockites)

Geologically, the EG consist of charnockite with minor bands of pyroxin granulate and magnetite quartzite.

2016 January 27, “Critical Analysis of Forest Degradation in the Southern Eastern Ghats of India: Comparison of Satellite Imagery and Soil Quality Index”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(mineralogy) An orthopyroxene-bearing quartz-feldspar rock.


antiperthite

antiperthite (countable and uncountable, plural antiperthites)

(mineralogy) A perthite having sodic feldspar as the dominant phase.


umbalite

umbalite (usually uncountable, plural umbalites)

Named for the Umba Valley of the Tanga Region of Tanzania, the location of the mineral’s first discovery in 1978: Umba + -lite.

(uncountable) A variety of garnet consisting of a mixture of pyrope, almandine, and spessartine, having the chemical formula Mg₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃-Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃, exclusively found in the alluvial deposits of the River Umba, and having a light-pink to purple colour.


sillenite

sillenite (countable and uncountable, plural sillenites)

From Sillén + -ite, named after the Swedish chemist Lars Gunnar Sillén.

(mineralogy) A cubic mineral with the chemical formula Bi₁₂SiO₂₀, typically found in association with bismuthite.


hancockite

(mineralogy) A mineral of the epidote group, with lead and strontium replacing some of the calcium.


georgeericksenite

Named after the geologist George E. Ericksen, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A vitreous, brittle, yellow mineral with the chemical formula Na₆CaMg(IO₃)6(CrO₄)₂(H₂O)₁₂.


fluorannite

(mineralogy) A fluorine analog of annite


arizonite

arizonite (usually uncountable, plural arizonites)

/ˌæɹəˈzoʊnˌaɪt/

From Arizona + -ite from its discovery in Arizona, USA, proposed by Chase Palmer in 1909.

The close ratio of ferric oxide to titanic oxide, viz., 1:3·03, indicates that the mineral is really ferric metatitanate, Fe₂O₃.3TiO₂ or Fe₂Ti₃O₉. Moreover, the crystallographic determinations strengthen the view that this titanate of iron cannot be assigned to any known species, but is entirely new. I propose to name it Arizonite... There appears to be no authentic prior record of the occurrence in nature of a simple ferric metatitanate... Upon readjustment of the analytical data as cited by Rammelsberg, it appears that his mineral consists essentially of 60 per cent ferrous titanate (FeO.TiO₂), ilmenite, and 40 per cent ferric titanate (Fe₂O₃.3TiO₂), arizonite.

1909, Chase Palmer, "Arizonite, Ferric Metatitanate", The American Journal of Science, 4th Series, Vol. XXVIII, No. 166, p. 355

(mineralogy) A titanate of iron, Fe₂Ti₃O₉.

Silver occurs, native, in various lodes... The Sumner lode produces a new combination of ore. The principal vein matter is micaceous iron, iodide of silver, gold, sulphurets of iron, and antimony. The name Arizonite has been given to it by Mr. H. G. Hanks, of San Francisco.

1878, Richard Josiah Hinton, The Handbook to Arizona, pages 96–97:

(historical mineralogy, obsolete) A kind of iron-laden silver ore discovered during Arizona's silver rush in the 1870s.


leptochlorite

Analysis I is incomplete, but analysis II may be readily recalculated into leptochlorite made up of mixtures of the following moleculas in the proportion indicated […]

1914, Victor Ziegler, The Minerals of the Black Hills (South Dakota School of Mines Bulletin No. 10), page 181:

[…] contemporaneous with gold are gilbertite, leptochlorite, tourmaline, iron sulphides, feldspar, (rare) carbonates, and quartz; post gold minerals are quartz, zinc and lead sulphides, and many others of geophases K and L.

2012, Robert W. Boyle, Gold: History and Genesis of Deposits, page 108:

The reduced, bivalent iron partly migrates and partly becomes fixed in the form of leptochlorites or siderite.

1967 [1965], A. I. Perelman, translated by N. N. Kohanowski, Geochemistry of Epigenesis, translation of original in Russian, page 199:

(mineralogy) A chlorite that contains mostly ferric iron rather than ferrous iron. Leptochlorites are typically richer in trivalent ions relative to silicon and divalent ions.


kjelsasite

From Kjelsås (a suburb of Oslo, Norway) + -ite.

(mineralogy, obsolete) A variety of monzonite, similar to larvikite.


chernobylite

(mineralogy) A technogenic crystalline zirconium silicate containing uranium as a solid solution, discovered in the corium produced by the Chernobyl nuclear accident.


mimetese

(mineralogy, archaic) A mineral resembling pyromorphite but with some of the phosphoric acid replaced by arsenic acid.


barkevikite

barkevikite (countable and uncountable, plural barkevikites)

(mineralogy) A particular hornblende mineral.


delessite

delessite (countable and uncountable, plural delessites)

Several delessites and chloropals occurring in basalts have a composition very close to that of the glass.

1905, B. K. Emerson, “Plumose diabase and palagonite from the Holyoke trap sheet”, in Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, volume 16, page 105:

(mineralogy) A magnesium-rich form of chamosite that is a member of the chlorite group.


kersantite

(mineralogy) A lamprophyre mineral containing biotite and plagioclase.


vogesite

(mineralogy) A lamprophyre mineral containing hornblende and orthoclase.


ptilolite

A classical compound of ptilo- + -lite, so named on account of its feather-like, threaded appearance.

(mineralogy, outdated) Mordenite; once designated as a new mineral, it was discovered to be identical with mordenite.


plagiogranite

plagiogranite (countable and uncountable, plural plagiogranites)

(mineralogy) Trondhjemite that occurs in the oceanic crust or in ophiolites.


fluorhydroxyapatite

The fluorhydroxyapatite formed over time during the remineralisation process in an initial caries lesion is more resistant to future demineralisation.

2015 August 29, Ratilal Lalloo et al., “Effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit of a single annual professional intervention for the prevention of childhood dental caries in a remote rural Indigenous community”, in BMC Oral Health, volume 15, →DOI:

The tooth mineral formed by the action of fluoride on hydroxyapatite


unakite

unakite (countable and uncountable, plural unakites)

(mineralogy) An altered granite composed of pink orthoclase feldspar, green epidote, and generally colorless quartz.


lardalite

lardalite (countable and uncountable, plural lardalites)

(mineralogy) A nepheline monzonite mineral.


smyris

These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone; smyris, ivory, bones, ebontree, cedar, cypress, pitch, softer rosin, […]

1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:


muckite

muckite (countable and uncountable, plural muckites)

(mineralogy) A resin found in cretaceous lignite in Moravia.


mimosite

mimosite (countable and uncountable, plural mimosites)

(mineralogy, archaic) A melanocratic basaltic rock.

(mineralogy, archaic) A form of undersaturated picobasalt.


minverite

Named after St Minver in Cornwall, England, with suffix + -ite.

(mineralogy) A particular hornblende-dolerite mineral.


ciminite

ciminite (countable and uncountable, plural ciminites)


ceylonite

ceylonite (countable and uncountable, plural ceylonites)

(mineralogy) A ferroan spinel with a manganese-iron ratio from 3:1 and 1:1, and little or no ferric iron.


fluoroperovskite

This property is associated with a non-collinear antiferromagnetic ordering, which induces a weak ferromagnetism and thus, making the strained NaMnF3 fluoroperovskite multiferroic.

2015, A. C. Garcia-Castro, A. H. Romero, E. Bousquet, “Strain engineering multiferroism in Pnma NaMnF3 fluoroperovskite”, in arXiv:

(mineralogy) Any of a group of minerals of general formula MM^'F₃ where M and M^' are manganese, barium or any alkali metal


sheridanite

sheridanite (usually uncountable, plural sheridanites)

From Sheridan + -ite, after its locality in Sheridan County, Wyoming, USA.

(mineralogy) An aluminium-rich clinochlore mineral.


eldfellite

Named for type locality, Eldfell volcano, Heimaey, Iceland + -ite.

In this study crystal structure and electronic poperties of eldfellite, important to cathode material, are examined through the electronic structure methods based on density functional theory.

2016, Chol-Jun Yu, Song-Hyok Choe, Gum-Chol Ri, Un-Gi Jong, Song-Nam Hong, “First-principles Study of Crystal Structure and electronic properties of SIB cathode material-NaFe(SO₄)₂”, in arXiv:

(mineralogy) The mineral NaFe(SO₄)₂ that may be used as a cathode in sodium-ion batteries


barlowite

As a consequence, interlayer-substituted barlowite can be described by a simple two-parameter Heisenberg Hamiltonian, for which a quantum spin liquid ground state has been predicted..

2016, Daniel Guterding, Roser Valenti, Harald O. Jeschke, “Reduction of magnetic interlayer coupling in barlowite through isoelectronic substitution”, in arXiv:

(mineralogy) A basic cuprous bromide / fluoride Cu₄BrF(OH)₆ that is antiferromagnetic


langbanite

A black, trigonal, sub-metallic mineral with the chemical formula of Mn_4²⁺Mn_9³⁺Sb⁵⁺O_16(SiO_4).


yoni egg

Start by creating a calm and pleasant environment where you can practice with your yoni egg.

The nature-based tools with which we work, whatever they are—yoga, astrology, yoni eggs, herbal remedies—aren't meant to be used dogmatically as crutches or bandages, but are symbols that remind us of ourselves.

2016, Chartreuse Tembo Barriere, The Yoni Egg Shadow Integration Workbook, page 7:

This book is for all women of all ages who may be a beginner or advanced at using the yoni egg. This book focuses on safely helping you make progress with their^([sic]) yoni egg in a manner that will stimulate you into orgasmic womb wisdom.

2018, Grace Diaz, How to Use the Yoni Egg for Sensual Healing:

An oviform object, made from jade or other precious stone, which is inserted into the vagina to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles.

Liebeskugel

An egg-shaped object used to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles


rivaite

(mineralogy) A mineral that is a metadisilicate of calcium and sodium.


mavlyanovite

(mineralogy) A manganese silicide mineral with chemical formula Mn₅Si₃.


brownleeite

From Brownlee + -ite, named after Donald E. Brownlee, professor of astronomy at the University of Washington, Seattle.

(mineralogy) A silicide mineral with chemical formula MnSi.


gunterite

From Gunter + -ite, after American mineralogist Mickey Gunter.

(mineralogy) A vanadate mineral with chemical formula Na₄(H₂O)₁₆(H₂V₁₀O₂₈)•6H₂O.


CuSe

(mineralogy) A compound of copper and selenium; klockmannite.


endellionite

From Endellion + -ite, after a region in Cornwall where it was found.


zincocalcite

(mineralogy) A mineral with chemical formula (Ca,Zn)CO₃.


zurlite

(mineralogy) A white or green Vesuvian mineral.


yttrofluorite

(mineralogy) A form of fluorite that is rich in yttrium


akaogiite

From Akaogi + -ite, named for Japanese chemist Masaki Akaogi.

(mineralogy) An extremely rare high-pressure polymorph of TiO₂.


bellite

(mineralogy) A mixture of minerals, principally chromates and silicates of lead and arsenic


diosmectite

diosmectite (countable and uncountable, plural diosmectites)

(mineralogy) A mixed silicate or aluminium and magnesium that is used as an intestinal adsorbent


spilosite

spilosite (countable and uncountable, plural spilosites)

From Ancient Greek σπίλος (spílos, “a spot”) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A greenish schistose rock spotted with chlorite.


hartite

(mineralogy) A fossil resin (chemically, a mixture of diterpene hydrocarbons) resembling amber


island silicate

island silicate (plural island silicates)


framework silicate

framework silicate (plural framework silicates)


sheet silicate

sheet silicate (countable and uncountable, plural sheet silicates)


neolite

neolite (usually uncountable, plural neolites)

(mineralogy) A dark green silicate of aluminium and magnesium.


gabbronite

gabbronite (usually uncountable, plural gabbronites)

(mineralogy) A compact variety of scapolite, resembling gabbro.


picotite

picotite (countable and uncountable, plural picotites)


masrite

(mineralogy) A variety of halotrichite containing manganese and cobalt.


sombrerite

From Sombrero + -ite, after the place in the Antilles.

(mineralogy) A hard impure calcium phosphate.


porphyroid

porphyroid (countable and uncountable, plural porphyroids)

(mineralogy) A crystalline and schistose rock containing porphyritic crystals of feldspar.


phthanite

phthanite (countable and uncountable, plural phthanites)

From Ancient Greek φθάνω (phthánō, “to come first”).


cornubianite

en-noun

cornubianite (countable and uncountable, plural cornubianites)

→ Catalan: cornubianita

→ Italian: cornubianite

Thus Dr. Boase (1) proposed the terms cornubianite and proteolite for certain varieties of rock occurring near the junctions of the sedimentary rocks and the granite.

1888, Jethro Justinian Harms Teall, British Petrography: With Special Reference to the Igneous Rocks:

(mineralogy) A dark-blue laminated rock found in Cornwall with granite.


saccharite

(mineralogy) A fine granular variety of feldspar.


ittnerite

(mineralogy) A dark blue or grey mineral, consisting chiefly of silica, alumina, potash, and soda.


nordmarkite

nordmarkite (countable and uncountable, plural nordmarkites)

(mineralogy) A variety of syenite with quartz, mostly composed of microperthite.


akerite

(mineralogy) Various varieties of calcialkalic microsyenite and micromonzonite.


microsyenite

(mineralogy) syenite with grain size under 5 millimeters.


microperthite

microperthite (countable and uncountable, plural microperthites)

(mineralogy) perthite in which the intergrowths are on a microscopic scale


micromonzonite

(mineralogy) monzonite with grain size under 5 millimeters


bronzitite

bronzitite (countable and uncountable, plural bronzitites)

(mineralogy) A form of orthopyroxenite composed mostly of the mineral hypersthene


bröggerite

bröggerite (countable and uncountable, plural bröggerites)

Named in 1884 by Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand to honor Waldemar Christofer Brøgger + -ite.

(mineralogy) A form of uraninite that contains significant amounts of thorium


chamoisite

(mineralogy) Alternative form of chamosite


clinoamphibole

(mineralogy) Any monoclinic form of an amphibole


sipylite

From Sipylos + -ite, after one of the children of Niobe.


dahllite

(mineralogy) A form of calcium phosphate that has a structure similar to that of the mineral part of bones and teeth


durapatite

(mineralogy) A form of hydroxyapatite found in bone


erythrine

erythrine (countable and uncountable, plural erythrines)


talcite

talcite (countable and uncountable, plural talcites)


wehrlite

wehrlite (countable and uncountable, plural wehrlites)

From Wehrle + -ite, after the Czech professor Alois Wehrle.

While tetradymite has been recorded in shallow settings (e.g., Boulder County belt), this mineral along with other bismuth tellurides like wehrlite, tellurbismuth, and so forth (see Thompson, 1949) seem to be most common in mesothermal and even more intense settings.

1969, William C. Kelly, Edwin N. Goddard, Telluride Ores of Boulder County, Colorado, Boulder, Colorado: The Geological Society of America, Inc., page 186:

(mineralogy) A naturally-occurring alloy of bismuth and tellurium, primarily Bi₂Te₃.


cheralite

cheralite (countable and uncountable, plural cheralites)

The rotation pattern in the small interplanar region was somewhat diffuse in the cheralites and Travancore monazites, but not in the Yediyoor specimens, indicating the existence of partial disorder in the former.

1960, Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences of India:

Even at the thin-section scale, the cheralite mole fraction may vary over a range of more than 50%, expressing that only part of the monazites is actually in equilibrium with the host-granite REE composition.

1995, Michael Brown, Philip M. Piccoli, The Origin of Granites and Related Rocks:

Small-sized cheralite is disseminated in cavities of lateritic soil particles (e.g., of sericitized orthoclase) of the Morro do Ferro deposit, Minas Gerais, southeaster Brazil.

2013, Reiner Ditz, Wolfgang Töpper, Bärbel Sarbas, Th Thorium: Natural Occurrence. Minerals (Excluding Silicates), →ISBN:

(mineralogy) Any of a range of yellowish-brown to green minerals that are mixed phosphates of (primarily) calcium and thorium, associated with uraniferous deposits.


kenyte

kenyte (countable and uncountable, plural kenytes)

(dated, mineralogy) A form of trachydolerite lava from Mount Kenya.


ramazzoite

Named after Mt. Ramazzo Mine, Genova, Italy where it was found.
Ramazzo + -ite.

(mineralogy) A polyoxometallate mineral containing copper, oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, phosphorus and sulphur.


ranciéite

Named after its discovered location, Le Rancié Mine, Occitanie, France
Rancié + -ite

(mineralogy) A trigonal black or brown mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and manganese.


ricolite

ricolite (usually uncountable, plural ricolites)

From Rico + -lite, after the place in New Mexico.

(mineralogy) A stratified ornamental stone, a form of serpentine.


ramikite-(Y)

From Ramik + -ite, named after the mineralogist at the Department of Natural History at the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada Robert A.J. Ramik (1951–).

named-after

(mineralogy) A triclinic yellowish-white mineral containing calcium, carbon, sodium, fluorine, phosphorus, lithium, hydrogen, oxygen, yttrium, and zirconium.


ralphcannonite

Named after Ralph Cannon, Technical Head of the Lengenbach Research Community
Ralph Cannon + -ite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal black mineral containing silver, astatine, sulphur, zinc, and tellurium.


rauchite

Named after Luděk Rauch (1951-1983), Czech mineral collector
Rauch + -ite

(mineralogy) A triclinic yellowish-green mineral containing astatine, hydrogen, nickel, uranium, and oxygen.


raygrantite

Named after Dr. Raymond W. Grant (born 1939), retired professor of geology and former President of the Mineralogical Society of Arizona.
Ray Grant + -ite

(mineralogy) A colourles triclinic mineral containing lead, hydrogen, oxygen, zinc, silicon, and sulphur.


redcanyonite

Named after its type locality, Blue Lizard Mine, Red Canyon, Utah, USA.
Red Canyon + -ite

"Redcanyonite is one of the rarest uranyl minerals known because it can only grow within narrow constraints"

2017, “Geologists Uncover Three New Uranyl Minerals”, in Science News:

(mineralogy) A monoclinic yellow mineral containing nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, sulphur, uranium, and manganese.


ramsdellite

en-noun

ramsdellite (countable and uncountable, plural ramsdellites)

Named in honour of Lewis Stephen Ramsdell (1895-1975), Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Michigan, who first discovered the mineral
From Ramsdell + -ite.

(mineralogy) A black or gray orthorhombic mineral form of manganese dioxide


renardite

Named in honour of Alphonse François Renard (1842-1903), geologist and petrographer at the University of Ghent, Belgium.
Renard + -ite

(mineralogy) A yellow orthorhombic mineral containing lead, hydrogen, uranium, phosphorus, and oxygen.


reynoldsite

Named in 2011 by Anthony R. Kampf, Stuart J. Mills, R. M. Housley, Robert S. Bottrill and Uwe Kolitsch in honour of Robert E. Reynolds (born 1943), former Curator of Earth Sciences at the San Bernardino County Museum.
From Reynolds + ite.

(mineralogy) A triclinic mineral containing chromium, manganese, oxygen, and lead.


rheniite

So called because of its rhenium content.
Rheni- + -ite

(mineralogy) A triclinic mineral containing sulphur and rhenium.


riotintoite

Named after the type locality: Rio Tinto Mine, Antofagasta Region, Atacama desert, Chile
Rio Tinto + -ite

(mineralogy) A colourless triclinic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen and sulphur.


rickturnerite

Named after Rick Turner, former President of the Russell Society and discoverer of the mineral in 2005.
Rick Turner + -ite

(mineralogy) A white or pale green orthorhombic mineral containing chlorine, magnesium, hydrogen, oxygen and lead.


rietveldite

Named in honour of Hugo M. Rietveld (1932-2016), Dutch crystallographer
Rietveld + -ite

(mineralogy) A orthorhomic mineral containing iron, sulphur, hydrogen, oxygen, and uranium.


magnesioriebeckite

Named in 1957 by Akiho Miashiro for its relationship to riebeckite and its magnesium content.
magnesio- + riebeckite

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


richardsollyite

Named in honour of Richard Harrison Solly (1851-1925), British autodidact who described eight new mineral species between 1901 and 1912.
Richard Solly + -ite

(mineralogy) A grey-black monoclinic mineral containing astatine, lead, sulphur and thallium.


rhönite

Named after the type locality in the Rhön Mountains, Hesse, Germany.
Rhön + -ite

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


chalcedonyx

(mineralogy) An agate formed of a white opaque chalcedony alternating with a greyish translucent chalcedony.


rhyacolite

From Ancient Greek ῥύαξ (rhúax, “stream”) (compare Greek ρυάκι (ryáki)) + -lite.

(mineralogy) A glassy feldspar found at Mount Somma in Italy.


schalenblende

schalenblende (usually uncountable, plural schalenblendes)

(mineralogy) A variety of native zinc sulfide.


romanorlovite

Named in honour of Roman Yu. Orlov (1929-2005), Russian mineralogist and physicist, Department of Mineralogy, Moscow State University.
Roman Orlov + -ite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal yellow to dark brown coloured copper and potassium hydroxychloride.


rogermitchellite

Named in honour of Dr. Roger Howard Mitchell (born 1941), Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geology at Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada.
Roger Mitchell + -ite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal mineral that is a complex barium, zirconium, strontium, and sodium basic borosilicate


rollandite

Named in honour of Pierre Rolland (born 1940), a mineral collector of the Roua mines in France
Rolland + -ite

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


rokühnite

Named after Robert Kühn (born 1911), German mineralogist and professor at Kaliforschungs-Institut der Kali und Salz AG, Hanover, Germany.
Kühn + -ite

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


römerite

German Römer + -ite. Named in honour of Friedrich Adolph Römer (1809-1869), German geologist and Director of the School of Mines at Clausthal, Germany, for his work in northern Germany.

(mineralogy) A yellow-brown triclinic mineral containing iron, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulphur.


wülfingite

Named by K. Schmetzer, G. Schnorrer-Köhler and O. Medenbach in honour of Ernst Anton Wülfing (1860-1930), mineralogist and petrographer, known for his work on the optical properties of minerals and meteorites.
Wülfing + -ite

(mineralogy) A colourless orthorhombic mineral containing zinc, hydrogen and oxygen.


yttropyrochlore

Named after the mineral's supposed yttrium content and resemblance to pyrochlore group minerals
Yttrium + o + pyrochlore

(mineralogy) A discredited pyrochlore mineral containing niobium, hydrogen, and oxygen.


guérinite

Named by Yevgeny I Nefedov in 1961 in honour of Henri Guérin (born 1906), chemist at Paris-Sud University, France, who first synthesized the compound.
Guérin + -ite

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


bluelizardite

From blue + lizard + -ite, named after the type locality: Blue Lizard mine, San Juan Co., Utah, USA.

(mineralogy) A pale yellow monoclinic sulfate chloride mineral with the chemical formula Na₇(UO₂)(SO₄)₄Cl(H₂O)₂.


kamarizaite

Named in 1893 by Karl H. E. G. Busz after the type locality: Kamariza Mines, Lavrion District, Attika Prefecture, Greece
Kamariza + -ite

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


huanzalaite

Named after the type locality: Huanzala mine, Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Peru
Huanzala + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing magnesium, oxygen, and tungsten.


jaszczakite

Named in honour of Dr. John A. Jaszczak, professor of Physics and adjunct curator of the A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan
Jaszczak + -ite

(mineralogy) A orthorhombic mineral containing gold, bismuth, and sulphur.


dzierżanowskite

Named after Piotr Dzierżanowski (died 2016), head of the microprobe laboratory at the University of Warsaw.
Dzierżanowski + -ite

(mineralogy) A dark orange trigonal mineral containing sulphur, calcium, and copper.


byzantievite

Named by Leonid Pautov, Atali Agakhanov, Elena Sokolova, Frank Hawthorne and Vladimir Karpenko after the Byzantine empire to reflect the complexity and chemical diversity of the mineral, seemingly reminiscent of the complex organisation and racial diversity of the Byzantines.
Byzanti- + -ev- + -ite

(mineralogy) A brown trigonal mineral containing boron, barium, calcium, flourine, hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, phosphorus, silicon, titanium, and yttrium.


kazanskyite

Named in honour of Professor Vadim Ivanovich Kazansky (born 1926), a prominent Russian ore geologist and expert on the topic of Precambrian metallogeny
Kazansky + -ite

(mineralogy) A triclinic mineral containing barium, hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, sodium, silicon and titanium.


shimazakiite

Named in honour of Dr. Hidehiko Shimazaki (born 1939), professor emeritus of Tokyo University, in recognition of his contributions to skarn mineralogy
Shimazaki + -ite

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


vymazalováite

Named in honour of Anna Vymazalová, the Head of the Department of Rock Geochemistry at the Czech Geological Survey, Prague.
Vymazalová + -ite

(mineralogy) An isometric mineral containing bismuth, sulphur, and palladium.


nizamoffite

Named in honour of James W. Nizamoff (born 1971), researcher of the mineralogy of the Palermo pegmatites at North Groton, New Hampshire, who discovered the mineral.
Nizamoff + -ite

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


lazaridisite

Named after Stathis Lazaridis (1953-2010), mineral collector who significantly contributed to the understanding of the mineral deposits around Laviron
Lazaridis + -ite

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


zaccariniite

Named in honour of Dr. Frederica Zaccarini of the University of Leoben, Austria for her work on chromitites and ultrabasic rocks.
Zaccarini + -ite

(mineralogy) A grey tetragonal mineral containing rhodium, nickel, and astatine.


zadovite

Named in honour of Alexandr Efimovich Zadov (1958-2012), Russian mineralogist and mineral collecter.
Zadov + -ite

(mineralogy) A colourless trigonal mineral containing barium, calcium, flourine, oxygen, phosphorus and silicon.


żabińskiite

Named in honour of Professor Witold Żabiński (1929-2007), an eminent Polish mineralogist and co-founder and later President of the Mineralogical Society of Poland.
Żabiński + -ite

(mineralogy) A brownish triclinic mineral containing aluminium, calcium, niobium, oxygen, silicon, and tantalum.


zagamiite

Named after the meteorite in which it was found: Zagami Martian meteorite, Katsina State, Nigeria.
Zagami + -ite

(mineralogy) A mineral of previously unknown structure containing aluminium, silicon, calcium, and oxygen.


zavalíaite

Named in honour of María Florencia de Fátima Márquez-Zavalía (born 1955), researcher and Head of the Department of Mineralogy at the National Research Council of Argentina, for her contributions to Argentinian mineralogy.
Zavalía + -ite

(mineralogy) A colourless monoclinic mineral containing oxygen, phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, and iron.


zangboite

Named after the Yarlong Zangbo River, which flows near the type locality.
Zangbo + -ite

(mineralogy) A grey orthorhombic mineral containing silicon, titanium, and iron.


carbapatite

carbapatite (countable and uncountable, plural carbapatites)

(mineralogy) A carbonated form of apatite


argentobaumhauerite

Originally named Baumhauerite-2a after its similarity to baumhauerite. Renamed argentobaumhauerite by the IMA.
argento- + baumhauerite

(mineralogy) A brown trigonal mineral containing silver, astatine, lead, and sulphur.


allochalcoselite

Derived from the Greek άλλος allos meaning different, χαλκός chalkos meaning copper and the element selenium, reflecting the different valences and the behavior of copper in this mineral.
allo + chalco + selenium + -ite

(mineralogy) A brown monoclinic mineral containing chlorine, copper, oxygen, selenium, and lead.


achalaite

After the type locality: Achala granite batholith, Córdoba, Argentina
Achala + -ite

(mineralogy) A black monoclinic mineral containing iron, magnesium, niobium, oxygen, titanium, and tantalum.


achávalite

Named achavalite in 1939 after Luis Achával (1870-1938), civil engineer and Professor at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Renamed achávalite by the IMA in 2015.
Achával + -ite

(mineralogy) A dark grey hexagonal mineral containing iron and selenium.


aleksandrovite

Named in honour of Stanislav Mikhailovich Aleksandrov (1932-2012), a Russian geochemist, geologist and mineralogist
Aleksandrov + -ite

(mineralogy) A colourless monoclinic mineral containing calcium, lithium, silicon, potassium, oxygen, tin, and flourine.


calcio-olivine

After the mineral's high calcium content and its similarity to the olivine series.
calcio- + olivine

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


alexkhomyakovite

From Alex + Khomyakov + -ite. Named in honour of Russian mineralogist Alexander Petrovich Khomyakov (1933–2012).

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


evdokimovite

Named in honour of Professor Mikhail Dmitrievich Evdokimov (1940-2010), Professor of Mineralogy at St Petersburg State University, for his contributions to mineralogy and petrology.
Evdokimov + -ite

(mineralogy) An monoclinic mineral containing hydrogen, thallium, vanadium, sulphur, and oxygen.


faizievite

Named after Faiziev Abdulkhak Radzhabovitch (b.1938), professor of the Academy of Sciences in Tajikistan.
Faiziev + -ite

(mineralogy) A triclinic mineral containing calcium, flourine, potassium, lithium, sodium, oxygen, silicon and titanium


hyttsjöite

Named after Lake Hytssjön, a lake west of the type locality in the Langban mines of Sweden
Hytssjön + -ite

(mineralogy) A trigonal mineral containing barium, calcium, chlorine, iron, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, lead and silicon.


oppenheimerite

oppenheimerite (countable and uncountable, plural oppenheimerites)

Named in 2015 by Anthony R. Kampf et al. in honour of Dr. Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), physicist on the Manhattan Project.
Oppenheimer + -ite

(mineralogy) A triclinic mineral that is a mixed hydrated sodium sulfate and uranate


joanneumite

joanneumite (countable and uncountable, plural joanneumites)

Named after the Universalmuseum Joanneum which had its bicentenary in 2011, the year the mineral was discovered
Joanneum + -ite

(mineralogy) A triclinic mineral that is an ammoniacal copper isocyanurate


poppiite

poppiite (countable and uncountable, plural poppiites)

Named in honour of Luciano Poppi, Professor of Mineralogy at Modena and Reggio Emilia University
Poppi + -ite

(mineralogy) A greenish-brown monoclinic mineral that is a basic silicate of calcium, vanadium, iron, magnesium and aluminium


anthracoxene

(mineralogy) A mixture of anthracoxenite and schlanite.


axelite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal mineral containing arsenic, chlorine, copper, fluorine, sodium and oxygen


schlanite

(mineralogy) The part of anthracoxene that is soluble in ether.


apexite

Named after the type locality: Apex mine, Nevada.
Apex + -ite

(mineralogy) A colourless triclinic mineral containing hydrogen, magnesium, sodium, oxygen and phosphorus.


alexjejewite

(mineralogy) A wax-like hydrocarbon discovered in the Kaluga Oblast, Russia.


anthracoxenite

(mineralogy) The part of anthracoxene that is insoluble in ether.


blue beryl

(mineralogy) A pleochroic, light-sensitive variety of the mineral beryl containing aluminium, beryllium, oxygen and silicon


tanteuxenite-(Y)

Named because of the mineral's high tantalum content and its similarity to euxenite-(Y)
tantalum + euxenite-(Y)

(mineralogy) A brown or black orthorhombic mineral containing hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, tantalum, titanium and yttrium.


euxenite-(Y)

From euxenite and the chemical symbol Y.

(mineralogy) A dark orthorhombic mineral containing calcium, cerium, niobium, oxygen, tantalum, thallium, titanium, uranium and yttrium


berzeline

Named in 1831 by Louis Albert Necker de Saussiere in honour of Jöns Jakob Berzelius
Berzelius + -ine

(mineralogy) A white variety of the mineral haüyne.


binnite

Named after its type locality: the Legenbach deposit, Binn Valley, Switzerland.
Binn + -ite

(mineralogy) A multi-faceted variety of the mineral tennantite, found in the Binn Valley, Switzerland


menezesite

Named in 2006 by Daniel Atencio et al in honour of Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes Filho (1950-2014), Brazilian mineralogist and geologist who first found the mineral.
Menezes + -ite

(mineralogy) A reddish-brown isometric mineral containing barium, hydrogen, magnesium, niobium, oxygen and zirconium


laachite

Named after the type locality: den Dellen quarries, Mendig, Laach Lake volcanic complex, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Laach + -ite

(mineralogy) A brown monoclinic mineral containing calcium, iron, manganese, niobium, oxygen, titanium and zirconium


aquaprase

(mineralogy) A bluish-green variety of chalcedony, coloured by chromium and nickel.


aluminocoquimbite

aluminocoquimbite (countable and uncountable, plural aluminocoquimbites)

Named after the mineral's relation to coquimbite and its elevated aluminium levels.
From alumino- + coquimbite.

(mineralogy) A trigonal mineral that is a hydrated aluminium, iron sulphate


bario-orthojoaquinite

In allusion to its composition (containing barium), its structure (having orthorhombic symmetry) and its membership of the joaquinite group.

(mineralogy) A yellow-brown orthorhombic mineral containing barium, iron, hydrogen, oxygen, silicon and titanium.


aqualite

From aqua + -lite, referring to high content of water in the mineral.

(mineralogy) A pink trigonal mineral containing calcium, chlorine, hydrogen, potassium, sodium, oxygen, silicon, strontium and zirconium.


pyreneite

pyreneite (usually uncountable, plural pyreneites)


rubicel

(mineralogy) Alternative form of rubicelle


oxykinoshitalite

From the composition of the mineral and its similarity with kinoshitalite.
oxy- + kinoshitalite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing aluminium, barium, magnesium, oxygen, silicon and titanium.


anomalite

(mineralogy, obsolete) A dark brown variety of jeffersonite.


hypersthenite

hypersthenite (countable and uncountable, plural hypersthenites)

(mineralogy) A more or less coarsely crystalline igneous rock, allied to gabbro; an aggregate of labradorite (feldspar) and hypersthene, of plutonic origin.


heavy spar

heavy spar (usually uncountable, plural heavy spars)

(mineralogy) Native barium sulphate; barite.


abramovite

Named after Russian mineralogist Dmitry Vadimovich Abramov + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A very rare mineral with chemical formula Pb₂SnInBiS₇, found in tiny elongated lamellar crystals.


abellaite

Named after Catalan gemologist Joan Abella i Creus + -ite.

(mineralogy) A hydrous carbonate mineral whose ideal chemical formula is NaPb₂(CO₃)₂(OH).


hazenite

blue-green algae
blue-green algae#English

(mineralogy) A water-soluble crystalline phosphate mineral, found in Mono Lake, made by Lyngbya cyanobacteria (“blue-green algae”)


ichnusaite

en-noun

ichnusaite (countable and uncountable, plural ichnusaites)

From Latin Ichnūsa (“Sardinia”, from Ancient Greek Ἰχνοῦσα (Ikhnoûsa)) + -ite.

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from Ancient Greek <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">Ἰχνοῦσα</i> (Ikhnoûsa)

(mineralogy) A radioactive thorium molybdate mineral found in Sardinia.


jaspellite

en-noun

jaspellite (usually uncountable, plural jaspellites)


epidosite

epidosite (countable and uncountable, plural epidosites)

(mineralogy) A highly altered epidote- and quartz-bearing rock.


sulfospinel

(mineralogy) Any mineral having the form of a spinel in which some or all of the oxygen atoms have been replaced by sulfur.


ramsayite

Named after Wilhelm Ramsay (1865-1928), + -ite.


violane

(mineralogy) A variant of diopside rich in manganese and violet to light blue in color.


goshenite

From Goshen + -ite, named after the town of Goshen, Massachusetts where it was first discovered.

(mineralogy) A colourless variety of beryl.


specularite

(mineralogy) A form of hematite that contains specular, silvery crystals


mariposite

mariposite (countable and uncountable, plural mariposites)

(mineralogy) A chromium-rich variety of mica, giving a green color to the generally white dolomitic marble in which it is commonly found.


virginite

A number of the smaller of these lenses occur as an attractive mottled green rock, known as virginite, which is widely used for ornamental display.

1986 December 14, “Polydymite and chrome-rich fuchsite in virginite from Baie Verte, Newfoundland”, in Mineralogical Magazine, volume 50, number 358, →DOI, pages 723–724:

(Newfoundland, mineralogy) The mottled green rock and mineral mariposite.


smithonite

smithonite (countable and uncountable, plural smithonites)

(mineralogy) Alternative form of smithsonite


junckerite

(mineralogy, obsolete) A supposed iron aragonite mineral, later determined not to exist.


devitoite

Named after Alfred (Fred) DeVito who lived from 1937–2004, a California micromounter and mineral collector. + -ite.

(mineralogy) A triclinic mineral containing barium, iron, phosphate, carbonate and silicate.


chabournéite

(mineralogy) A black triclinic mineral composed of thallium, lead, antimony, arsenic and sulfur Tl₄Pb₂(Sb,As)₂₀S₃₄.


swimming stone

(mineralogy) A cellular variety of flint floatstone.


ferribeidellite

(mineralogy) A form of beidellite containing iron


fritzscheite

Named after a chemist: Carl Julius Fritzsche by A. Breithaupt in 1865 + -ite

(mineralogy) A red tetragonal mineral containing manganese and uranium with phosphate and vanadate.


hellandite

Named after Amund Theodor Helland born 11 October 1846 in Bergen, Norway, who was a geology professor at Royal Frederick University. + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic borosilicate mineral containing rare earths, aluminium and calcium.


fuxiaotuite

Named after Fu Xiaotu, a Chinese name for Jeffrey de Fourestier, + -ite.

(mineralogy) An unapproved name for tangdanite.


tangdanite

Named after the Tangdan Mine where the mineral was first discovered, in Dongchuan District, Kunming, Yunnan, China. + -ite

(mineralogy) A light blue monoclinic calcium copper basic arsenate sulfate mineral.


leydetite

Named after Jean-Claude Leydet born 18 April 1961, an amateur uranium mineral enthusiast + -ite

(mineralogy) A yellowish-green monoclinic mineral which is a hydrated iron uranyl sulfate.


mboziite

Named after the Mbozi Complex, located on the side of the Tunduma branch of the Rukwa Rift Valley, + -ite.

(mineralogy) a sodium containing amphibole.


lingunite

Named after Lin-gun Liu who first synthesized the material in 1978 at the Australian National University + -ite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal high pressure form of albite, a tektosilicate mineral found in meteorites with formula NaAlSi₃O₈ although calcium may substitute for sodium.


natroautunite

natroautunite (countable and uncountable, plural natroautunites)

From natro- + autunite meaning containing autunite containing sodium. Named in 1957 by A. A. Chernikov, O. V. Krutetskaya, and N. I. Organova.

(mineralogy) A lemon-yellow tetragonal mineral, which is a hydrated sodium uranyl phosphate

sodium autunite used for this mineral for part of 1957

meta-natroautunite renamed to this officially in 1994


okanoganite

From Okanogan + -ite; named after Okanogan County, Washington State.

(mineralogy) a trigonal rare earth fluoro borosilicate mineral.


labuntsovite

Named after Aleksander Nikolaevich Labuntsov and Ekaterina Eutiikkieva Labuntsov-Kostyleva who were Russian mineralogists + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral which is a complex niobate silicate of potassium, barium, sodium and transition metals.


högbomite

Named after Arvid Gustav Högbom born January 11, 1857, by Axel Olof Gavelin in 1916; + -ite.

(mineralogy) A black hexagonal iron magnesium titanate mineral.


welinite

Named after Swedish mineralogist Eric Welin born 1923 + -ite

(mineralogy) A red trigonal mineral which is a manganese, tungsten silicate.


ardennite

ardennite (countable and uncountable, plural ardennites)

Named after the Ardennes Mountains in Belgium + -ite

(mineralogy) A yellowish orthorhombic mineral that is a mixed silicate and vanadate, and may also have arsenate.


argentobismutite

(mineralogy) matildite a silver bismuth sulfide.


argentoroméite

(mineralogy) Alternative spelling of argentoromeite


argentoromeite

(mineralogy) A silver-containing antimonite mineral


tundrite

tundrite (usually uncountable, plural tundrites)

Named after Lovozero tundra by E. I. Semenov in 1963 + -ite

(mineralogy) A triclinic mineral containing sodium, rare earths, titanium, silicate, carbonate and oxygen.


tsilaisite

Named after Tsilaizina in Madagascar + -ite

(mineralogy) A triclinic mineral containing sodium, manganese, aluminium, borate, silicate, and hydroxide.


tohdite

(mineralogy) An artificial aluminium oxide hydrate the same as natural akdalaite.


uhligite

Named in honour of Alfred Louis Uhlig (1883 - 1919), a German geologist who led the expedition on which the mineral was found.
Uhlig + -ite

(mineralogy) A black isometric mineral containing aluminium, calcium, oxygen, titanium and zirconium.


uakitite

Named after the type locality, the Uakit meteorite deposit, Baunt District, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia
Uakit + -ite

(mineralogy) An isometric mineral containing vanadium and nitrogen.


ultramelilitolite

(mineralogy) A melilitolite with more than 65% melilite.


kyanoxalite

Ancient Greek κυανός (kuanós, “blue”) + oxalate

(mineralogy) A pale blue hexagonal mineral containing aluminium, hydrogen, sodium, carbon, oxygen and silicon.


rosolite

(mineralogy) A rose pink variety of grossular; rose garnet.


khorixasite

Named after Khorixas District, Namibia, where the type locality can be found.
Khorixas + -ite

(mineralogy) A yellow-green monoclinic mineral that contains bismuth, copper, hydrogen, oxygen and vanadium.


pendletonite

Named after Norman Pendleton (1901-1995), a mineral collector in Santa Cruz. Name invented by Joseph Murdoch in 1967.

(mineralogy) Name for a coronene mineral, later called carpathite.


stibotantalite

Columbite from Topsham, Maine, and tantalite from Grizzly Bear Gulch, Black Hills, S. D. were used for the experiment. Also other insoluble columbite-tantalites such as yttrotantalite, bismuthotantalite, stibotantalite, etc. will be decomposed […]

1960, Scientific Papers of the College of Arts and Sciences:

The densest of all gem minerals is stibotantalite […]

1975, Alan Ross McWhirter, Guinness Book of World Records, page 178:

(mineralogy) A form of tantalite in which tantalum is wholly or partially replaced by antimony


hydrogarnet

(mineralogy) Any mineral based on a garnet in which one or more silicate anions are replaced by hydroxyls


pietersite

a rare dark-gray or reddish breccia aggregate (rock made up of fragments embedded in a matrix), comprised mostly of hawk's eye and tiger's eye


monheimite

From Monheim + -ite. Named after German chemist Johann Peter Joseph Monheim (1786–1855).

named-after

(mineralogy) A ferroan variety of smithsonite.


lincolnite

en-noun

lincolnite (countable and uncountable, plural lincolnites)


shungite

shungite (countable and uncountable, plural shungites)

First described from a deposit near Shunga village in Karelia, Russia, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A black, lustrous, non-crystalline mineraloid consisting mostly of carbon, used as a pigment in art and an antibacterial water treatment.


leuchtenbergite

leuchtenbergite (countable and uncountable, plural leuchtenbergites)

From German Leuchtenbergit, equal to Leuchtenberg + -ite. Named after Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817–1852).

(mineralogy) A variety of clinochlore that contains little or no iron.


manganomelane

manganomelane (countable and uncountable, plural manganomelanes)

(mineralogy) Any of a group of colloidal hydrated manganese oxide minerals.


fluorohydroxyapatite

(mineralogy) Alternative form of fluorhydroxyapatite


cobaltocalcite

(mineralogy) A form of calcite containing small amounts of cobalt


pholerite

From French pholérite, equivalent to Ancient Greek φολίς (pholís) + -ite.

(mineralogy, obsolete) Synonym of kaolinite


karenwebberite

From Karen + Webber + -ite, named after American geologist Karen L. Webber.

(mineralogy) A mineral with the chemical formula Na(Fe²⁺,Mn²⁺)PO₄.


meyrowitzite

From Meyrowitz + -ite, named after Robert Meyrowitz (1916-2013), American analytical chemist.

(mineralogy) A rare carbonate mineral with formula Ca(UO₂)(CO₃)₂·5H₂O.


falsterite

(mineralogy) A rare pegmatitic phosphate mineral with the formula Ca₂MgMn²⁺₂(Fe²⁺_(0.5)Fe³⁺_(0.5))₄Zn₄(PO₄)₈(OH)₄(H₂O)₁₄.


agricolaite

From Agricola + -ite, named after German scholar Georgius Agricola (1494–1555).

(mineralogy) A mineral with the chemical formula K₄(UO₂)(CO₃)₃.


bobdownsite

From Bob + Downs + -ite, named after Robert Terrace Downs.

(mineralogy) A fluorine-bearing phosphate mineral of the whitlockite group.


lavinskyite

From Lavinsky + -ite, named after mineral photographer Robert Lavinsky.

(mineralogy) A phosphate mineral with the chemical formula K(Li,Cu,Mg,Na)₂Cu₆(Si₄O₁₁)₂(OH)₄.


kochsandorite

Named after Hungarian mineralogist Koch Sándor, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A mineral with the chemical formula CaAl₂(CO₃)₂(OH)₄H₂O.


erikapohlite

Named after German mineral collector Erika Pohl-Ströher, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A mineral, the calcium-dominant analog of keyite.


bettertonite

From Betterton + -ite, named after John Betterton.

(mineralogy) A white monoclinic arsenate mineral with the formula [Al₆(AsO₄)₃(OH)₉(H₂O)₅]・11H₂O.


yangite

From Yang + -ite, named after researcher Hexiong Yang.

(mineralogy) A chain-silicate mineral with the formula PbMnSi₃O₈•H₂O.


zinclipscombite

(mineralogy) A dark-green to brown zinc iron phosphate mineral with the formula Zn(Fe³⁺)₂(PO₄)₂(OH)₂.


georgerobinsonite

From George + Robinson + -ite, named after George Willard Robinson.

(mineralogy) A bright orange-red lead chromate mineral with the chemical formula Pb₄(CrO₄)₂(OH)₂FCl.


paulscherrerite

From Paul + Scherrer + -ite, named after Swiss physicist Paul Scherrer.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic schoepite mineral with chemical formula UO₂(OH)₂.


ernstburkeite

From Ernst + Burke + -ite, named after mineralogist Ernst A. J. Burke.

(mineralogy) A mineral with chemical formula Mg(CH₃SO₃)₂·12H₂O.


rruffite

Named after RRUFF (Raman Research Used For Fun), a project creating a complete set of high-quality spectral data from well-characterized minerals, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A mineral with the chemical formula Ca₂Cu(AsO₄)₂·2H₂.


lucabindiite

Named after mineralogist Luca Bindi, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A hexagonal mineral with the chemical formula (K,NH₄)As₄O₆(Cl,Br).


zigrasite

From Zigras + -ite, named after its discoverer, James Zigras.

(mineralogy) A phosphate mineral with the chemical formula MgZr(PO₄)₂(H₂O)₄.


ferraioloite

From Ferraiolo + -ite, named after James A. Ferraiolo.

(mineralogy) A rare mineral with formula MgMn²⁺₄(Fe²⁺_(0.5)Al_(0.5))₄Zn₄(PO₄)₈(OH)₄(H₂O)₂₀, related to falsterite.


lavoisierite

From Lavoisier + -ite, named after French chemist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier.

(mineralogy) A mineral with the chemical formula Mn²⁺₈[Al₁₀(Mn³⁺Mg)][Si₁₁P]O₄₄(OH)₁₂.


buseckite

From Buseck + -ite, named after American geologist Peter Buseck.

(mineralogy) A mineral with the chemical formula (Fe,Zn,Mn)S.


krotite

From Krot + -ite, named after the cosmochemist Alexander N. Krot.

(mineralogy) A natural mineral composed of calcium, aluminium and oxygen, with the molecular formula CaAl₂O₄.


malhmoodite

From Malhmood + -ite, named after Bertha K. Malhmood.

(mineralogy) A phosphate mineral with the chemical formula FeZr(PO₄)·4H₂O.


atencioite

From Atencio + -ite, named after mineralogist Daniel Atencio.

(mineralogy) A calcium iron phosphate mineral with the chemical formula Ca₂Fe²⁺₃Mg₂Be₄(PO₄)₆(OH)₄·6H₂O.


kleberite

From Kleber + -ite, named after German professor Will Kleber.

(mineralogy) A mineral with the chemical formula FeTi₆O₁₃.


cernyite

(mineralogy) A cadmium analog of stannite, with chemical formula Cu₂CdSnS₄.


shulamitite

From Shulamit + -ite, named after Israeli mineralogist and geologist Shulamit Gross.

(mineralogy) A barium copper silicate mineral with the formula Ca₃TiFe³⁺AlO₈.


saleeite

From Salée + -ite, named after Belgian mineralogist Achille Salée (1883-1932).

(mineralogy) A secondary uranium mineral with the chemical formula Mg(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10(H₂O).


backite

From Back + -ite, named after Malcolm E. Back.

(mineralogy) A tellurate mineral with the chemical formula Pb₂Al(TeO₆)Cl.


armbrusterite

From Armbruster + -ite, named after Swiss crystallographer Thomas Armbruster (born 1950).

(mineralogy) A mineral with the chemical formula K₅Na₃Mn³⁺Mn²⁺₁₄[Si₉O₂₂]₄(OH)₁₀·4H₂O.


wulffite

From Wulff + -ite, named after Russian crystallographer Georgiy Viktorovich Wulff.

(mineralogy) An alkali copper sulfate mineral with chemical formula K₃NaCu₄O₂(SO₄)₄.


argandite

From Argand + -ite, named after Swiss geologist Émile Argand (1879–1940).

(mineralogy) A mineral with the chemical formula Mn₇(VO₄)₂(OH)₈.


cámaraite

From Cámara + -ite, named after the mineralogist Fernando Cámara (born 1967).

(mineralogy) A mineral with the chemical formula Ba₃NaTi₄(Fe²⁺,Mn)₈(Si₂O₇)₄O₄(OH,F)₇.


alloriite

From Allori + -ite, named after Italian mineralogist Roberto Allori.

(mineralogy) A rare silicate mineral of the cancrinite group, found in Italy, with the chemical formula Na₅K_(1.5)(Al₆Si₆O₂₄)(SO₄)(OH)_(0.5) * H₂O.


scottyite

From Scotty + -ite, named after Michael Scott, first CEO of Apple Computer.

(mineralogy) A barium copper silicate mineral.


emmerichite

(mineralogy) A vitreous brown mineral with chemical formula Ba₂Na(Na,Fe²⁺)₂(Fe³⁺,Mg)Ti₂(Si₂O₇)₂O₂F₂.


acanticone

acanticone (countable and uncountable, plural acanticones)

(mineralogy) Alternative form of epidote


alvikite

(mineralogy) A fine-grained form of sovite


absarokite

Absaroka Range, sub-range of Rocky Mountains, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A basaltic-trachyandesite rock containing phenocrysts of olivine and augite


aegyrine

aegyrine (countable and uncountable, plural aegyrines)

(mineralogy) Alternative form of aegirine


camptonite

camptonite (countable and uncountable, plural camptonites)

(mineralogy) A lamprophyre containing plagioclase and feldspar.


borolanite

(mineralogy) A pyroxene-melanite containing nepheline syenite


cleusonite

(mineralogy) A crichtonite composed of basic titanates


fenite

fenite (countable and uncountable, plural fenites)

There Strauss & Truter record a gradual transition from the white umptekite (fenite) to a pulaskitic rock with nepheline.

1956, The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, page 210:

(mineralogy) A metasomatic rock often containing carbonatite intrusions


ilmenitite

(mineralogy) A hypabyssal igneous rock composed of ilmenite with some pyrite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, hypersthene and labradorite


glimmerite

(geology) An igneous rock consisting almost entirely of dark mica


jotunite

(mineralogy) A charnockitic monzodiorite


monzodiorite

monzodiorite (countable and uncountable, plural monzodiorites)

(mineralogy) A type of diorite that has less than 5% quartz


kamafugite

(mineralogy) Any a series of ultrapotassic igneous rocks, between kalsilitite and leucitite


ledmorite

(mineralogy) A coarse-grained nepheline syenite characteristic of the Ledmore river in Scotland


offretite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal prismatic form of zeolite


opdalite

(mineralogy) A charnockitic form of granodiorite


schorlite

(mineralogy) A black variety of tourmaline; Synonym of schorl


rontgenite

(mineralogy) A mixed carbonate and fluoride of calcium and a lanthanide, typically cerium or lanthanum


achroite

achroite (countable and uncountable, plural achroites)

From Ancient Greek ἄχροος (ákhroos), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + χρώς (khrṓs, “color”), + -ite.

(mineralogy) A colourless form of tourmaline


cappelenite

cappelenite (countable and uncountable, plural cappelenites)

(mineralogy) A rare mineral that is a mixed borosilicate and fluoride of yttrium, cerium and barium


carbocer

(mineralogy) Any of a group of poorly-defined minerals containing rare earth elements


carnegieite

(mineralogy) An (often synthetic) feldspar similar to nepheline


carphosiderite

(mineralogy) A basic, hydrated form of ferric sulfate


caswellite

From American mineralogist Henry Caswell.


chiviatite

(mineralogy) A mixed sulphide of lead and bismuth found near Chiviato in Peru


chladnite

chladnite (countable and uncountable, plural chladnites)

(mineralogy) A form of enstatite present in some meteorites


chloanthite

(mineralogy) A skutterudite relatively rich in nickel


chloromagnesite

(mineralogy) A volcanic mineral, anhydrous magnesium chloride, found on Vesuvius


churchite

(mineralogy) A hydrated cerium/calcium phosphate.


cirrolite

(mineralogy) A basic phosphate of calcium and aluminium


cliftonite

From Clifton + -ite. Named after English physicist Robert B. Clifton (1836-1921).

(mineralogy) A form of graphite present in some meteorites


clinoclasite

clinoclasite (countable and uncountable, plural clinoclasites)


clinochlorite

clinochlorite (countable and uncountable, plural clinochlorites)


clinoedrite

clinoedrite (countable and uncountable, plural clinoedrites)


clinohypersthene

(mineralogy) A monoclinic magnesium-iron silicate present in some basalts


edscottite

From Ed + Scott + -ite, after Edward R. D. Scott of the University of Hawaii, a pioneering cosmochemist.

(mineralogy) An iron carbide mineral with the formula Fe₅C₂.


coccinite

(mineralogy) A form of mercuric iodide (HgI₂) mined in parts of Australia and Mexico


cocinerite

(mineralogy) A form of chalcocite containing silver sulfide


mizzonite

mizzonite (countable and uncountable, plural mizzonites)

Coordinate term: wernerite


zircite

(mineralogy) A baddeleyite-zircon mixture.


zobtenite

(mineralogy) Any rock produced from gabbros by pressure.


yamaskite

yamaskite (countable and uncountable, plural yamaskites)

From Yamaska + -ite, after Mount Yamaska.


yatalite

(mineralogy) A form of coarse-grained pegmatite composed of uralitic actinolite.


kuskite

(mineralogy, obsolete) A supposed form of scapolite, later found to be quartz.


yttrogummite

(mineralogy) An yttrium-bearing variety of gummite.


nordenskioldine

(mineralogy) A stanniferous borate mineral.


bagrationite

Discovered by Georgian Prince Peter Bagrationi in 1847 and named in his honour, + -ite.


coking coal

All grades of coal, deepmined and opencast, are produced, and Durham coking coal is unsurpassed for iron and steel making and is world-famous.

1959 May, R. A. Savill, “The coal traffic of the North Eastern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 272:

Among the numerous types of vehicles required are special 33½-ton vacuum-braked hopper wagons for iron ore imported at Newport docks, 21-ton vacuum-braked wagons for coking-coal and 56-ton vehicles for slabs and coils.

1962 December, “Railways and the Spencer Steelworks”, in Modern Railways, page 410:

Bituminous coal which is suitable for making into coke, for example for use in steel manufacture.


kainosite

kainosite (countable and uncountable, plural kainosites)


cenosite

cenosite (usually uncountable, plural cenosites)

(mineralogy) A hydrated carbonate/silicate of rare earth elements and calcium present in Scandinavia.


kaliborite

kaliborite (countable and uncountable, plural kaliborites)

(mineralogy) A hydrous borate of potassium and magnesium


kallilite

(mineralogy) A mixed sulphide of nickel and bismuth.


kaluszite

(obsolete, mineralogy) Synonym of syngenite


kamarezite

(mineralogy) A basic form of copper sulphate


karpinskyite

(mineralogy) A hydrated aluminosilicate of sodium, beryllium, zinc and magnesium


megabasite

megabasite (countable and uncountable, plural megabasites)

(obsolete, mineralogy) Synonym of wolframite


rockallite

(mineralogy) A relatively dark, iron-rich peralkaline granite forming part of the islet of Rockall.


rosieresite

(mineralogy) An amorphous hydrous phosphate of aluminium with lead and copper.


monradite

(mineralogy) a type of pyroxene composed of an iron and magnesium silicate


kehoeite

From Kehoe + -ite, from a Henry Kehoe, its discoverer.

(mineralogy) A soft, microcrystalline, hydrated phosphate of aluminium, zinc and calcium.


kentallenite

kentallenite (countable and uncountable, plural kentallenites)

(mineralogy) A monzonite containing olivine.


kerrite

kerrite (countable and uncountable, plural kerrites)


kjerulfin

(mineralogy) A Norwegian form of wagnerite


kirwanite

(mineralogy) A form of chlorite associated with basalt in the north of Ireland


klaprothite

klaprothite (countable and uncountable, plural klaprothites)


knopite

knopite (countable and uncountable, plural knopites)

(mineralogy) A variety of perofskite containing cerium in place of calcium.


klipsteinite

(mineralogy) A hydrated silicate of manganese and iron


knoxvillite

(mineralogy) A hydrous sulphate of chromium, iron and aluminium.


kobeite

kobeite (usually uncountable, plural kobeites)

(mineralogy) A hydrated oxide of a mixture of lanthanides and transition metals


koppite

koppite (countable and uncountable, plural koppites)

alkaline earth metal
alkaline earth metal

(mineralogy) A columbate of alkali metal and alkaline earth metals.


kilbrickenite

(mineralogy) A mixed sulphide and antimonide of lead.


vaalite

From Vaal (“South African river”) + -ite.


varlamoffite

varlamoffite (usually uncountable, plural varlamoffites)


lahnsteinite

(mineralogy) A very rare colorless hydroxysulfate mineral.


johnstrupite

(mineralogy) A particular titanium silicate mineral.


valbellite

(mineralogy, obsolete) A variety of peridotite with bronzite, olivine, hornblende, etc.


venanzite

(mineralogy) An olivine melilitite mineral from San Venanzo in Italy.


zvyaginite

(mineralogy) A colorless mineral found in Russia.


minjiangite

(mineralogy) A white mineral found in China.


kakortokite

(mineralogy) A eudialytic nepheline syenite mineral.


ijussite

(mineralogy) A kind of mafic teschenite mineral.


vignite

(mineralogy) A form of magnetite from Vignes in France


viseite

(mineralogy) A mixed, hydrated silicate, phosphate and fluoride of calcium and aluminium.


lujavrite

lujavrite (countable and uncountable, plural lujavrites)

(mineralogy) A dark agpaitic nepheline syenite mineral.


flajolotite

(mineralogy) An iron antimonate mineral.


walpurgite

walpurgite (countable and uncountable, plural walpurgites)

(mineralogy) A hydrated arsenate/oxide of bismuth and uranium.


wittingite

(mineralogy) A form of neotocite from Norway


guejarite

From Guejar + -ite, after the district of the Sierra Nevada, Andalusia, where it was found.


guadalcazarite

(mineralogy) A variety of metacinnabar containing zinc.


pentahydrocalcite

(mineralogy) A pentahydrated form of calcite


dechenite

(mineralogy) A reddish vanadate of lead and/or zinc


isoclasite

(mineralogy) A hydrated basic calcium phosphate


isopyre

(mineralogy) A form of opal that has iron oxide impurities


neurolite

(mineralogy) A fibrous form of clay resembling pinite


heintzite

Named after Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz, + -ite.


huantajayite

From Huantajaya + -ite, after the district in Tarapacá, Chile where it was found.

(mineralogy) An argentian halite mineral.


khagiarite

(mineralogy) A black vitreous variety of pantellerite.


keffekilite

(mineralogy) A form of lithomarge from Crimea.


kersanton

kersanton (usually uncountable, plural kersantons)


levinsonite

From Levinson + -ite, after Alfred Abraham Levinson.

(mineralogy) A colorless mineral found in Tennessee, USA.


alsakharovite

From Aleksey + -ite, after Aleksey Sergeyevich Sakharov.

(mineralogy) A very rare mineral found in Murmansk, Russia.


phoxite

From ph (for phosphate) + ox (for oxalate) + -ite, named by Anthony R. Kampf, Aaron J. Celestian, Barbara P. Nash and Joe Marty in 2019.

(mineralogy) A mineral containing ammonium, magnesium, phosphate and oxalate


klaprotholite

klaprotholite (countable and uncountable, plural klaprotholites)


klaprothine

(mineralogy) A basic aluminophosphate of magnesium and ferrous iron


liebenerite

(mineralogy) A form of muscovite with chemical formula KAl₂(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂.


steenstrupine

It is a remarkable fact that the most fresh steenstrupine in lujavrites and veins is found in rocks carrying albite (and ussingite).

1963, Bent Eske Koch, E. I. Hamilton, William E Davies, Meddelelser Om Grønland, page 31:

In most of the Ilímaussaq rocks, Th and U are concentrated in eudialyte, but in the final lujavrites they are largely held by steenstrupine.

1979, Rapport, numbers 95-103, page 110:

(mineralogy) A rare dark brown mineral, (La,Ca,Na)(Al,Fe,Mn)(Si,P)(O,OH,F)₄, found in Greenland, occurring in rhombohedral crystals or massive formations.


onkilonite

(mineralogy) A nepheline basalt mineral.


backstromite

(mineralogy) Synonym of hydrohausmannite


courtzilite

Such forms as gilsonite, elaterite, uintaite, grahamite, courtzilite, etc., are hard and brittle at ordinary temperatures, […]

1896, United States, Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior, Department of the Interior, page 752:

(mineralogy) A type of asphalt allied to uintahite and gilsonite.


weibyeite

From Weibye + -ite, after Norwegian mineralogist P. C. Weibye.

(mineralogy, obsolete) A supposed mineral from Norway, later identified as bastnaesite or ancylite.


pyrrholite

(mineralogy) An aluminosilicate pinite of calcium and potassium


pyrrhoarsenite

(mineralogy) A form of berzeliite containing some antimony


zuktamrurite

(mineralogy) An iron phosphide mineral found around the Dead Sea


trisulfoaluminate

(mineralogy) Any mineral composed of three sulfate groups for each aluminate group


weiselbergite

weiselbergite (countable and uncountable, plural weiselbergites)

From Weiselberg + -ite, after the hill in Saarland, Germany, where it is found.

(mineralogy) A deep black and light blue magmatic rock with isolated pieces of feldspar.


barrandite

barrandite (countable and uncountable, plural barrandites)

(mineralogy) The mineral (Al,Fe³⁺)PO₄⋅2H₂O, related to taranakite.


bahiaite

bahiaite (countable and uncountable, plural bahiaites)

(mineralogy) A hornblende hypersthenite mineral.


dufrenoysite

(mineralogy) A sartorite mineral with chemical formula Pb₂As₂S₅.


pyrostilpnite

(mineralogy) A certain monoclinic form of pyrargyrite.


krisuvigite

Swedish name, in reference to Krýsuvík (volcanic system), + -ite


forbesite

(mineralogy) A hydrated arsenate of nickel and cobalt found in the Atacama desert


anabohitsite

From Anabohitsy + -ite, from the place in Madagascar where it was found.

(mineralogy) An olivine- and hornblende-bearing pyroxenite mineral.


polzenite

polzenite (countable and uncountable, plural polzenites)

(mineralogy) A melilitite that contains haüyne.


stassfurtite

Named after the German town of Staßfurt, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A fibrous variety of boracite.


xylochlore

(mineralogy) An altered form of apophyllite.


xylotile

(mineralogy) An altered form of asbestos.


carmeltazite

Named after where it was discovered (Mount Carmel) and the major elements that comprise it (titanium, aluminium, and zirconium).

(mineralogy) A rare oxide mineral discovered in 2019, with the chemical formula ZrAl₂Ti₄O₁₁.


rezbanyite

From Rézbánya (site of a mine formerly in Hungary, now Romania) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A mineral consisting of lead, copper, and bismuth sulfide.


varnsingite

(mineralogy) A coarse-grained whitish igneous dyke rock consisting of albite, pyroxene, titanite, magnetite and apatite with secondary epidote, prehnite and muscovite.


vessonite

vessonite (countable and uncountable, plural vessonites)

Thread the bead in the following pattern or create your own unique pattern: (Pinks) garnet, rose, garnet, fuchsia, garnet, rose, garnet; (Greens) vessonite, lime, olive, lime. Repeat greens 2 times, add 1 vessonite.

2008, Sara Schwittek, Anita Lin, Perfect Match: Earring Designs For Every Occasion:


davemaoite

From Dave + Mao + -ite, after Chinese-American geophysicist Ho-Kwang (Dave) Mao, who first described it from theory.

A high-pressure calcium silicate perovskite mineral with chemical formula CaSiO₃.


breyite

From Brey + -ite, after the German mineralogist Gerhard Peter Brey.

A walstromite-structured CaSiO₃ mineral.


andrewsite

From Andrews + -ite, after the English chemist Thomas Andrews.

(mineralogy, historical) A now-discredited mineral, reported in Cornwall and later shown to be a mixture of hentschelite and rockbridgeite, with minor chalcosiderite.


uncompahgrite

uncompahgrite (countable and uncountable, plural uncompahgrites)

(mineralogy) A coarse-grained melilitic rock containing more than 10% pyroxene.


kusuite

After the Kusu deposit near Kinshasa, Zaire, + -ite.

(mineralogy) Original name given to the mineral group later renamed wakefieldite.


wiikite

wiikite (countable and uncountable, plural wiikites)

(mineralogy) A mineral, likely consisting of samarskite, betafite, and allanite.