ikranite

en-noun

ikranite (usually uncountable, plural ikranites)

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


eakerite

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


ingersonite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-trapezohedral brownish yellow mineral containing antimony, calcium, fluorine, iron, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.


ecdemite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal mineral containing arsenic, chlorine, lead, and oxygen.


iltisite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-trapezohedral mineral containing bromine, chlorine, mercury, silver, and sulfur.


ourayite

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


inderite

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


oneillite

Named after Canadian geologist with the Geological Survey of Canada, John Johnston O'Neill (1886–1966), + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A trigonal-pyramidal yellowish brown mineral containing calcium, chlorine, hydrogen, iron, manganese, niobium, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and zirconium.


iranite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pedial mineral containing chromium, copper, fluorine, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and silicon.


oosterboschite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic black mineral containing copper, palladium, and selenium.


intersilite

From inter- + silite, because it is an intermediate between layered and banded silicates.

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


inderborite

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


mendozavilite

Named after Mexican geologist Heriberto Mendoza Avila (1924–), who discovered the mineral, + -ite. The mineral was given the suffix of -NaFe in 2010 when more related species were discovered to differentiate it from other species of alternate element dominance.

(mineralogy, outdated) A monoclinic mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, molybdenum, oxygen, phosphorus, sodium, and strontium.

(mineralogy) A group of said minerals with a common chemical base.


ottemannite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal reddish gray mineral containing sulfur and tin.


eastonite

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


ikunolite

en-noun

ikunolite (usually uncountable, plural ikunolites)

Named for type locality Ikuno Mine in Hyogo, Japan, + -lite.

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


ilsemannite

ilsemannite (usually uncountable, plural ilsemannites)

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


ilesite

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


eskolaite

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


innelite

Named for type locality, from Yakut inneli, the Inagli river in Yakutia, Russia, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pedial mineral containing barium, calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, sulfur, and titanium.


ephesite

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


cowlesite

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


eugenite

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


huntite

From the name of Walter Frederick Hunt (1882–1975), US mineralogist, + -ite.

[A] good white is also very precious. It is valued partly because […] the best of it – a clay called huntite – is believed to be the faeces of the Rainbow Snake.

2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, page 49:

(mineralogy) A trigonal-trapezohedral mineral containing calcium, carbon, magnesium, and oxygen.


epistilbite

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


ellisite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal dark gray mineral containing arsenic, sulfur, and thallium.


nahpoite

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


orcelite

Named after French professor of mineralogy Jean Orcel (1896–1978),
curator of Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal pyramidal orange white mineral containing arsenic and nickel.

National Museum of Natural History (France)


epididymite

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


eggletonite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic golden brown mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


eskebornite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-scalenohedral bronze mineral containing copper, iron, and selenium.


eudidymite

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


eucairite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing copper, selenium, and silver.


ercitite

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


eriochalcite

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


erlianite

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


eglestonite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing chlorine, hydrogen, mercury, and oxygen.


ernstite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic yellow brown mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.


ershovite

For Vadim Viktorovich Ershov (1939-1989) + -ite

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


yftisite

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

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


versiliaite

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


vozhminite

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


srebrodolskite

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


rankinite

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


vincentite

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

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


elyite

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


blixite

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


veenite

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


vitimite

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


vernadite

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


vertumnite

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


vaughnite

(mineralogy) Alternative spelling of vaughanite


shcherbinaite

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


berdesinskiite

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


stannopalladinite

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


stannoidite

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


epistolite

From Ancient Greek ἐπιστολή (epistolḗ, “letter, message”), because of its flat, white appearance, + -ite.

uder

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


sosedkoite

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


vasilyevite

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


maxwellite

Named after American geologist Charles Henry Maxwell (1923–) (who studied the mineral's type locality) + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A monoclinic dark red mineral containing arsenic, fluorine, iron, oxygen, and sodium.


elpidite

en-noun

elpidite (usually uncountable, plural elpidites)

From Ancient Greek ἐλπίς (elpís, “hope”) + -ite.

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


edgarite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-trapezohedral similar to molybdenite mineral containing iron, niobium, and sulfur.


spertiniite

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


spionkopite

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


bismutomicrolite

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


bityite

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


fredrikssonite

fredrikssonite (usually uncountable, plural fredrikssonites)

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


switzerite

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


soucekite

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


bismutocolumbite

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


museumite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic dark silver gray mineral containing antimony, gold, lead, sulfur, and tellurium.


bismutopyrochlore

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


swamboite

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


berezanskite

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

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


vasilite

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

named-after

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


bismutostibiconite

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


amarillite

Named after type locality Terra Amarilla in Chile + -ite

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


spencerite

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


sopcheite

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


biehlite

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

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


bismutotantalite

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


stanfieldite

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


taneyamalite

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

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


tantalcarbide

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


tokkoite

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


sorbyite

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


aravaipaite

After the Aravaipa region in Arizona, + -ite.

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


sterryite

From Sterry + -ite, after Thomas Sterry Hunt.

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


swinefordite

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


ardealite

en-noun

ardealite (usually uncountable, plural ardealites)

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

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


stepanovite

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


stalderite

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


tuscanite

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


solongoite

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


ferroglaucophane

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


steigerite

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


spheniscidite

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

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


stranskiite

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


straczekite

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


starkeyite

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


loseyite

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


souzalite

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

named-after

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


strakhovite

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


stistaite

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


sodicgedrite

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


treasurite

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


sterlinghillite

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

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


sturtite

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


oxammite

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


titantaramellite

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


stokesite

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


teepleite

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


tamaite

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


sphaerobismoite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal mineral containing bismuth and oxygen.


strelkinite

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


stenhuggarite

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


stannomicrolite

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

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

(mineralogy) A variety of the generalized microlite subgroup.


sodicanthophyllite

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

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


stoiberite

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


stibiomicrolite

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


stibiotantalite

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


liberite

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


takovite

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


strengite

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


tucekite

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


litidionite

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


stillwaterite

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


stibiocolumbite

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


stibiobetafite

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


fillowite

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


stringhamite

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


danbaite

(mineralogy) An isometric mineral containing copper and zinc.


metahewettite

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


stetefeldtite

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


tancoite

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


messelite

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

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


stanekite

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


jankovicite

After Serbian geologist Slobodan Janković + -ite.

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


dypingite

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


sonolite

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

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


metacalciouranoite

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


mroseite

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

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


taikanite

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


stewartite

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


metaborite

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


stibivanite

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


dyscrasite

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


faheyite

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


suredaite

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


stoppaniite

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

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


kovdorskite

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

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


ferrilotharmeyerite

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


stibarsen

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


fervanite

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


duttonite

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


majakite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal gray white mineral containing arsenic, nickel, and palladium.


takanelite

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

named-after

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


joliotite

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


georgbokiite

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


bilibinskite

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


arsenuranospathite

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


tacharanite

en-noun

tacharanite (usually uncountable, plural tacharanites)

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

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


bicchulite

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

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


deliensite

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


atlasovite

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


aurivilliusite

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


aramayoite

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


beraunite

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


bararite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral white mineral containing fluorine, hydrogen, nitrogen, and silicon.


swartzite

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

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


barberiite

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


arsenocrandallite

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


averievite

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


bergslagite

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


brianroulstonite

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


delhayelite

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

named-after

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


brackebuschite

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


bellingerite

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


bradaczekite

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


belyankinite

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


benavidesite

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


takedaite

en-noun

takedaite (usually uncountable, plural takedaites)

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

named-after

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


konyaite

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


bayldonite

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


koritnigite

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


leucosphenite

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


aeschynite

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


kotulskite

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


boromuscovite

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


brianyoungite

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


junoite

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


bellbergite

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


borodaevite

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


kimrobinsonite

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


krasnovite

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


stibiocolusite

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


sincosite

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


berzeliite

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


kettnerite

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


berzelianite

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

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


kuksite

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

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


braggite

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

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


bakerite

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

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


kostylevite

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


leiteite

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


banalsite

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


keystoneite

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


berthierine

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


eclarite

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


bonaccordite

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

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


brinrobertsite

After Brin Roberts, British mineralogist, + -ite

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


bariosincosite

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


bandylite

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

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


beryllite

For its composition of beryllium, + -ite.

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


benyacarite

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


bannermanite

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


derriksite

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


lemanskiite

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

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


brannockite

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


foshagite

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


bertossaite

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


barbosalite

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

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


fedorovskite

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


filatovite

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


buergerite

en-noun

buergerite (usually uncountable, plural buergerites)

(mineralogy) A cyclosilicate mineral related to tourmaline.


brassite

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


kidwellite

kidwellite (usually uncountable, plural kidwellites)

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

named-after

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


ferropargasite

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


danalite

en-noun

danalite (usually uncountable, plural danalites)

From Dana + -lite, after James Dwight Dana.

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


strashimirite

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

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


eckermannite

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


kudriavite

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

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


damaraite

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


eugsterite

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


cyclosilicate

Any of several classes of silicate mineral having rings of silicate anions.


spriggite

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


boleite

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


kombatite

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

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

1986, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, page 520:

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

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

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

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

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


lautenthalite

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

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


bariomicrolite

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


bleasdaleite

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


bannisterite

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

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


hastite

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


lithiophosphate

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


ravatite

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

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


marshite

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

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


carlinite

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


maldonite

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

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


gupeiite

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


cryptomelane

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


kolymite

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


tobelite

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


pellouxite

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


bunsenite

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


chernykhite

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


phosphofibrite

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


seifertite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing oxygen and silicon.


geerite

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


mitscherlichite

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


metastibnite

(mineralogy) An amorphous mineral containing antimony and sulfur.


nickelphosphide

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


lithiomarsturite

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


petarasite

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


tolbachite

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


metaschoderite

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


niobocarbide

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


metadelrioite

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


athabascaite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing copper and selenium.


perroudite

Named after Swiss mineralogist Pierre Perroud + -ite.

named-after

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


krutaite

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

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


nimite

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


humboldtine

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

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


palarstanide

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

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


christite

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


apuanite

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


anduoite

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

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


ankangite

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


arsenoclasite

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


argentopyrite

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


artsmithite

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


arseniosiderite

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


baksanite

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


arupite

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


arsenopalladinite

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


arsenpolybasite

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


arzakite

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


arsentsumebite

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


asbecasite

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


arseniopleite

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


ashoverite

From the village and parish of Ashover + -ite.

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


avicennite

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


armangite

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


apachite

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


asselbornite

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


bambollaite

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


bamfordite

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

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


baratovite

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


barringerite

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


balkanite

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

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


baumstarkite

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


arsenuranylite

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

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


barroisite

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


bauranoite

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


baumhauerite

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

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


belkovite

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


anapaite

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

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


andorite

en-noun

andorite (countable and uncountable, plural andorites)

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

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


bartelkeite

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


bellidoite

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


balangeroite

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

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


aurorite

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

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


benauite

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


belloite

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


beudantite

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


bermanite

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


bartonite

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

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


benstonite

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


aspidolite

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

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


bergenite

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

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


ashburtonite

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

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


bernardite

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


attakolite

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

uder

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


bilinite

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


barylite

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

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


blatterite

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


billietite

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


blatonite

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


bismoclite

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

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


bobierrite

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


beusite

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


bostwickite

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


boldyrevite

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


bismutoferrite

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


bornhardtite

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


bernalite

Named after British crystallographer John Desmond Bernal + -ite

named-after

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


boltwoodite

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


bonattite

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


boralsilite

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

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


brannerite

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


bradleyite

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


brandholzite

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


armenite

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

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

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

All reported armenites are of nearly end-member composition.

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

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

2012, Robin K. Harris, NMR Crystallography:

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


bredigite

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


bottinoite

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


boyleite

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


berlinite

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

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


brunogeierite

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


brenkite

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


barysilite

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

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


benleonardite

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

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


brockite

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


brezinaite

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


buckhornite

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


borcarite

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


bolivarite

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


bulachite

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


brindleyite

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


burnsite

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


burckhardtite

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


buryatite

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


calumetite

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


brandtite

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


bukovite

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


bustamite

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


bornemanite

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


burangaite

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


bushmakinite

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


buttgenbachite

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


burtite

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


borovskite

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

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


calderonite

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


brendelite

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

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


calciotantite

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


camgasite

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


bracewellite

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

named-after

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


calcioburbankite

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


camerolaite

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


calzirtite

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


callaghanite

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


calciocopiapite

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


cannonite

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


caminite

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


calcurmolite

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

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


butlerite

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


bystrite

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


canavesite

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


calciohilairite

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


campigliaite

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


calcjarlite

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

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


cancrisilite

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

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


calciobetafite

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


calcioaravaipaite

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


calciouranoite

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


calcioferrite

en-noun

calcioferrite (usually uncountable, plural calcioferrites)

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


canasite

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


bussenite

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


capgaronnite

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


caoxite

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


caresite

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


carboborite

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


caracolite

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

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


carlhintzeite

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


carlosruizite

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


carlsbergite

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


cannizzarite

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

named-after

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


carlosturanite

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


cascandite

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


carraraite

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


carlfriesite

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


caryinite

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


carminite

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


cassidyite

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


cassedanneite

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


catalanoite

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


carmichaelite

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

named-after

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


caswellsilverite

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


amstallite

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

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


catamarcaite

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


cattierite

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


cervelleite

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


cesstibtantite

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


cavoite

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


cechite

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


chaidamuite

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


cerchiaraite

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


catapleiite

en-noun

catapleiite (countable and uncountable, plural catapleiites)

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


chelkarite

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


cebollite

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

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


chambersite

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


chalcoalumite

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


cesplumtantite

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


cetineite

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


chalcosiderite

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


chalcomenite

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


chloraluminite

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


chiavennite

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


chadwickite

From Chadwick + -ite, after Sir James Chadwick.

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


chalconatronite

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


chursinite

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


chestermanite

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


chlorartinite

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


chelyabinskite

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


charlesite

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


cesarolite

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

named-after

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


chayesite

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


bariandite

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


chernikovite

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


spodiosite

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

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

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

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


chekhovichite

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

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


chlorophoenicite

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


chlorothionite

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


curite

en-noun

curite (usually uncountable, plural curites)

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

The color is lighter than that of curite.

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

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

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

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

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


clearcreekite

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


chengdeite

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


changbaiite

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


cherepanovite

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


chrisstanleyite

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

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


carrboydite

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


chatkalite

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

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


chrombismite

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


carpholite

carpholite (countable and uncountable, plural carpholites)

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

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


chiluite

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


chromatite

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


chalcophanite

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


chromferide

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


caryopilite

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

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


chlorbartonite

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


chromdravite

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


chudobaite

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


chenevixite

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

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


clerite

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


changchengite

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


claraite

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


cliffordite

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


chromceladonite

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


changoite

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


cianciulliite

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

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


chamosite

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

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


brochantite

brochantite (countable and uncountable, plural brochantites)

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

(mineralogy) A basic copper sulfate mineral


clinomimetite

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


chantalite

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

named-after

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


balipholite

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, barium, fluorine, hydrogen, lithium, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon.


ciprianiite

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


clinokurchatovite

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


clinochalcomenite

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


chalcothallite

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

uder

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


barnesite

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


clinocervantite

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


choloalite

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

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


clairite

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

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


clinotobermorite

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


comancheite

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


clinosafflorite

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


conichalcite

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


coalingite

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


clinophosinaite

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


chromphyllite

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

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


claringbullite

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

named-after

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


chalcocyanite

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


cobaltomenite

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


clinobisvanite

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

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


coronadite

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


cobaltaustinite

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


cochromite

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


crawfordite

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


coutinhoite

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


corrensite

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


chloroxiphite

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

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


corvusite

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


cuprocopiapite

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


chloromenite

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


coulsonite

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


cobaltkieserite

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


costibite

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


cuprorhodsite

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


cupropavonite

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


cornubite

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

suffix

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


clinobehoite

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

affix

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


chervetite

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

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


comblainite

After Gordon Comblain, mineralogist, + -ite

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


darapskite

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


clinoferrosilite

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

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


cuprorivaite

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


cubanite

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


cuproiridsite

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


cosalite

en-noun

cosalite (countable and uncountable, plural cosalites)

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

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


cuboargyrite

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


cryolithionite

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


crerarite

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

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


bavenite

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


clinoholmquistite

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


creaseyite

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


denningite

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


dietrichite

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


curienite

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


cuprotungstite

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


denisovite

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


delindeite

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


clinochlore

clinochlore (countable and uncountable, plural clinochlores)

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

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


barentsite

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


doloresite

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


darapiosite

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


donharrisite

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


chiolite

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

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

kioliitti

a mineral of aluminum, fluorine and sodium


deloryite

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


dimorphite

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


dienerite

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

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


dorfmanite

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


ferchromide

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


diaphorite

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


cyanochroite

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

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


dorrite

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


dickinsonite

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


fairchildite

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


fedorite

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


donpeacorite

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


fahleite

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


cyanophyllite

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

uder

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


fairbankite

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


delrioite

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


dervillite

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

named-after

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


buchwaldite

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


fencooperite

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


fairfieldite

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


feitknechtite

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


criddleite

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


dumontite

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


fermorite

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


fernandinite

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


dukeite

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


fenaksite

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

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


feinglosite

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


dugganite

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

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


ferritungstite

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


derbylite

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

named-after

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


ferrorichterite

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


dusmatovite

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


cornetite

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


burbankite

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


ferrisymplesite

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


ferristrunzite

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


fedotovite

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


ferruccite

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


finnemanite

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


ferrogedrite

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ferrogedrite (usually uncountable, plural ferrogedrites)

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


ferrinatrite

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


ferrobustamite

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

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


crandallite

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

named-after

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


ferrohornblende

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ferrohornblende (countable and uncountable, plural ferrohornblendes)

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


ferrisurite

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


feruvite

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


florenskyite

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

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


ferroceladonite

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


ferrarisite

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


canaphite

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


ferrotychite

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


curetonite

Translingual: Cut

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

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


ferrorhodsite

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


fersmanite

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


fianelite

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

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


foshallasite

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


ferrowodginite

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


fluornatromicrolite

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

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


fluoborite

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


formicaite

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


fourmarierite

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


florensovite

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


francisite

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


franconite

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


dundasite

From Dundas + -ite, after Dundas, Tasmania.

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


fletcherite

fletcherite (usually uncountable, plural fletcherites)

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


fluorocannilloite

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


galkhaite

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


frankamenite

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


garronite

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


freboldite

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


franzinite

After Marco Franzini, Italian mineralogist, + -ite.

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


gallite

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

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


fransoletite

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


fraipontite

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


galeite

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


gebhardite

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


francevillite

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

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


geversite

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


gatumbaite

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


genkinite

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


gaudefroyite

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


georgiadesite

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


ganterite

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


genthelvite

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


gianellaite

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


gerstleyite

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


georgechaoite

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


georgeite

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


gerstmannite

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


friedelite

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

named-after

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


gerhardtite

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

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


garyansellite

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

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


fluellite

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

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


giniite

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


garavellite

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

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


gilmarite

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


girdite

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


giessenite

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


giraudite

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


francoanellite

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

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


gaultite

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


ginorite

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


ganomalite

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

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


goedkenite

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


germanocolusite

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