tectosilicate

(mineralogy) Any of various silicate minerals, mostly aluminosilicates, with a three-dimensional framework of silicate tetrahedra with SiO₂ or a 1:2 ratio, making up the greater part of Earth's crust.


magnesiochromite

(mineralogy) A chromite species with the formula MgCr₂O₄.


rostite

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


nitrobarite

(mineralogy) A mineral consisting of barium nitrate.


studtite

From Studt + -ite.
From Franz Edward Studt, English prospector and geologist.

(mineralogy) A secondary uranium mineral containing peroxide formed by the alpha-radiolysis of water during formation; it occurs as white yellow needlelike crystals often in acicular sprays.


posnjakite

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


xanthoconite

Proustite, always 10 to 20 times more abundant than xanthoconite, formed clusters attached to the lining of the bomb. Xanthoconite occurred in single unattached crystals which were concentrated in the upper part of the solids left in the bomb […]

1948, Economic Geology, Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists:

(mineralogy) A mineral containing silver, arsenic, and sulphur.


pinite

en-noun

pinite (usually uncountable, plural pinites)

From Pini + -ite, after a mine in Saxony.

(mineralogy) A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the alteration of other minerals, such as iolite.


gehlenite

gehlenite (usually uncountable, plural gehlenites)

(mineralogy) A particular kind of sorosilicate.


tenorite

tenorite (usually uncountable, plural tenorites)

(mineralogy) A mineral form of cupric oxide


copper sulfide

(mineralogy, inorganic chemistry) A family of chemical compounds and minerals with the chemical formula CuₓS_y.


digenite

digenite (usually uncountable, plural digenites)

(mineralogy) A black to dark blue opaque copper sulfide mineral with chemical formula Cu₉S₅.


enargite

enargite (usually uncountable, plural enargites)

(mineralogy) A steel gray, blackish gray, to violet black copper arsenic sulfosalt mineral with a metallic luster.


zincblende

zincblende (usually uncountable, plural zincblendes)


bjarebyite

(mineralogy) A green mineral comprising mostly barium, phosphorus, and oxygen.


chvaleticeite

(mineralogy) A soft monoclinic mineral with chemical formula (Mn,Mg)SO₄·6H₂O.


nitrocalcite

(mineralogy) A hydrated calcium nitrate mineral that forms as an efflorescence where manure contacts concrete or limestone in a dry environment, as in stables or caverns.


smrkovecite

(mineralogy) A particular monoclinic white or light yellow mineral.


sussexite

sussexite (usually uncountable, plural sussexites)

From Sussex + -ite, after Sussex County, New Jersey, where it was first discovered in 1868.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic manganese borate mineral with the chemical formula MnBO₂(OH).


pyroxferroite

pyroxferroite (usually uncountable, plural pyroxferroites)

(mineralogy) A yellowish silicate of the pyroxene group with a triclinic crystal structure.


mbobomkulite

Named for type locality Mbobo Mkulu (cave in South Africa where it was found) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral of the chalcoalumite group.


ximengite

Named after the discovery locality: Ximeng tin mining district, Yunnan Province, China
Ximeng + -ite

Ximengite was analyzed for chemical composition on a JSM-35CF scanning electron microscope and an ED AX PV 9100 energy spectrometer using the following standards: […]

1989, Chinese Journal of Geochemistry, volume 8, page 386:

(mineralogy) A trigonal mineral with chemical formula BiPO₄.


sapphirine

sapphirine (countable and uncountable, plural sapphirines)

(mineralogy) A rare silicate of magnesium and aluminium (with iron as a major impurity), named for its sapphirelike colour.


turneaureite

(mineralogy) A brown mineral that is a mixed arsenate, phosphate and chloride of calcium


sassolite

(mineralogy) A volcanic mineral form of boric acid originally found in Sasso, near Volterra in Italy


marmolite

From Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros, “marble”) + -lite.


lazulite

en-noun

lazulite (countable and uncountable, plural lazulites)

(mineralogy) A semi-precious gemstone that is a basic phosphate of magnesium, iron and aluminium


hyalite

From Ancient Greek ὕαλος (húalos, “glass”) + -ite.


cooperite

(mineralogy) A grey mineral consisting mostly of platinum sulfide (PtS).


forsterite

From Forster + -ite, named for German mineral dealer Adolarius Jacob Forster.

(mineralogy) A white variety of olivine that is mostly magnesium silicate, Mg₂SiO₄.


billitonite

en-noun

billitonite (countable and uncountable, plural billitonites)

(mineralogy) A form of tektite from Southeast Asia.


aethiops

(obsolete, mineralogy) Any of various dark oxides or sulfides of metals


kotoite

(mineralogy) A mineral form of magnesium borate that is isostructural with jimboite


gilbertite

From Gilbert + -ite, after Davies Gilbert, British philosopher.

The mass of gilbertite in the specimens in my possession, is mixed with dark purple fluor spar, and with specks of another mineral, which has the aspect of apatite.

1836, Thomas Thomson, Outlines of Mineralogy, Geology, and Mineral Analysis, page 235:

A yellowish or greenish micaceous mineral, observed originally at Stenna Gwynn and since found in several china-stone districts in Cornwall, as at St. Austell and Breage, has been distinguished by the name of Gilbertite—a name given by Dr. Thomas Thomson, in compliment to Davies Gilbert, the "Cornish philosopher," who was, at one time President of the Royal Society (b. 1767, d. 1839.)

1905, Frederick William Rudler, A Handbook to a Collection of the Minerals of the British Islands, page 27:

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

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

(mineralogy) A particular kind of muscovite.


duftite

(mineralogy) A particular kind of vitreous or dull, olive-green to grey-green orthorhombic mineral.


chenite

(mineralogy) A particular kind of sky blue mineral found on galena and chalcopyrite with the chemical formula Pb₄Cu(SO₄)₂(OH)₆.


arctite

(mineralogy) A colourless mineral made of a trigonal crystal system and found in northern Russia.


fluorspar

fluorspar (usually uncountable, plural fluorspars)

Blend of fluorite + spar (“mineral, crystal”).

(mineralogy) A halide mineral composed of calcium fluoride.


fluorohectorite

(mineralogy) A clay mineral that is a mixed silicate / oxide / fluoride of lithium and magnesium.


tetradymite

(mineralogy) a grey mineral that is mostly a mixed sulfide of bismuth and tellurium


lillianite

(mineralogy) A grey mineral that is a mixed sulfide of lead and bismuth


boehmite

Named for Johann Böhm, German chemist, + -ite

(mineralogy) A mixed oxide and hydroxide of aluminium.


alunogen

(mineralogy) An aluminium sulfate mineral often found on the walls of mines and quarries.


tuite

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


griphite

From Ancient Greek γρῖφος (grîphos, “puzzle”), + -ite. The compound has a puzzling composition.

der

(inorganic chemistry, mineralogy) A vitreous, resinous, yellow or dark-brown, molecular compound that is both diploidal and isometric.


kelyphite

Relationships shown in Fig. 3, B and C demonstrate that formation of the symplectite predated development of glassy kelyphite veins which formed by decompression melting during rapid ascent of the host alnöite.

2000 May 19, Kenneth D. Collerson with et al., “Rocks from the Mantle Transition Zone: Majorite-Bearing Xenoliths from Malaita, Southwest Pacific”, in Science, volume 288, number 5469, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1215–1223:

Kelyphite is a fine grained, fibrous and radially oriented mineral assembly surrounding partially retrogressed garnet.

2009, M. Obata, K. Ozawa, D. Spengler, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #V44A-02:

(mineralogy) A substitution mineral found surrounding garnet in peridotites.


diallage

en-noun

diallage (countable and uncountable, plural diallages)

From New Latin diallagē, from Ancient Greek διαλλαγή (diallagḗ, “interchange”).


marokite

(mineralogy) A dark brown mineral, a mixed oxide of calcium and manganese, found in hydrothermal deposits


cotunnite

(mineralogy) A mineral form of lead chloride (PbCl₂) formed by alteration of galena.


cuproscheelite

(mineralogy) A mineral (CuWO₄) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.


acapulcoite

(mineralogy) A primitive achondrite composed of fine-grained olivine, orthopyroxene, plagioclase and troilite.


alluaudite

(mineralogy) A metasomatic mineral that is an alkaline manganese iron phosphate.


gobbinsite

From Gobbins + -ite, from "Gobbins" in Islandmagee in Antrim.

(mineralogy) A tektosilicate of sodium, calcium, magnesium and potassium


chesterite

From the town of Chester in Vermont, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A basic inosilicate of magnesium and iron.


celadonite

From French celadon (“sea-green”) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A blueish-green form of mica.


aluminoceladonite

(mineralogy) A bluish-green mineral that is a basic silicate of potassium, aluminium, magnesium and ferrous iron.


anthoinite

(mineralogy) A white mineral that is a hydrated aluminium tungstate.


tektosilicate

(mineralogy) Any silicate, of formula (SiO₂)ₙ in which each tetrahedral group shares all of its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups.


antigorite

After its locality in Valle Antigorio, Italy, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A brownish-green variety of serpentine.


hausmannite

en-noun

hausmannite (countable and uncountable, plural hausmannites)

From Hausmann + -ite, named for J. F. L. Hausmann, German mineralogist.

(mineralogy) A dark mineral composed of manganese tetroxide, sometimes used as an ore of manganese.


liversidgeite

(mineralogy) A mineral composed of a hydrated zinc phosphate


lovozerite

(mineralogy) A mineral composed of a hydrated silicate of sodium, potassium, manganese, calcium, and zirconium


paraspurrite

(mineralogy) A polysynthetically twinned spurrite


natrite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral form of sodium carbonate containing carbon, oxygen, and sodium.


pseudorutile

(mineralogy) A mineral form of ferric titanate


manganocolumbite

(mineralogy) A variety of columbite in which manganese replaces iron


spurrite

(mineralogy) A granular mineral composed of a mixed silicate and carbonate of calcium


jimthompsonite

From Jim Thompson + -ite, in reference to Harvard petrologist James Burleigh Thompson, Jr..

(mineralogy) An inosilicate mineral containing iron and magnesium.


sarcopside

(mineralogy) A phosphate mineral of manganese, magnesium, and iron


wadalite

From Wada + -lite; named in 1993 after Japanese geologist Tsunashiro Wada (1856-1920).

(mineralogy) A vitreous nesosilicate of calcium, aluminium and magnesium


sideronatrite

(mineralogy) A yellow, fibrous mineral composed of a basic, hydrous sulfate of sodium and iron


aliettite

Alietti + -ite, after mineralogist Andrea Alietti.

(mineralogy) A basic magnesium aluminosilicate.


britholite

(mineralogy) A basic phosphate / silicate mineral of sodium, calcium and cerium found in parts of Russia.


aurichalcite

From an ancient term for brass. Compare orichalcum.

(mineralogy) A basic carbonate mineral of copper and zinc.


belovite

For Nikolai Vassilievich Belov, Russian mineralogist, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A basic phosphate / fluoride mineral of strontium and lanthanum.


arsenolite

(mineralogy) A mineral form of arsenic trioxide.


birnessite

From Birness + -ite, after Birness, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where it was first described.

(mineralogy) A soft mineral, mostly containing manganese oxides, that occurs in manganese nodules.


crichtonite

(mineralogy) A mixed oxide mineral containing several different lanthanides as well as titanium, iron and manganese.


clinoenstatite

(mineralogy) A form of pyroxene, consisting of magnesium silicate, found in some meteorites.


ceriopyrochlore

(mineralogy) A basic fluoride mineral similar to pyrochlore but containing cerium.


ancylite

(mineralogy) A basic carbonate mineral of cerium and strontium.


caledonite

(mineralogy) A basic carbonate / sulfate mineral of copper and lead


strontian

(mineralogy) A mineral containing strontium.


richterite

Named in 1865 by Johann Friedrich August Breithaupt in honour of Hieronymous Theodor Richter (1824-1898), professor of chemistry at Freiberg University of Mining and Technology and the co-discoverer of indium.
Richter + -ite

(mineralogy) A basic silicate mineral of sodium, potassium, magnesium, manganese, and calcium belonging to the amphibole group


halophosphate

(mineralogy) Any phosphate mineral that also contains halide ions.


hilgardite

(mineralogy) A vitreous mixed borate and chloride mineral of calcium.


marmatite

(mineralogy) A dark form of sphalerite that is rich in iron


riebeckite

From Riebeck + -ite, named after German explorer Emil Riebeck.

(mineralogy) A form of amphibole rich in sodium, the fibrous form of which, crocidolite, is a type of asbestos.


magnesiohornblende

(mineralogy) Any hornblende mineral that is rich in magnesium


umbite

Named after Lake Umb, in Russia, + -ite.

(mineralogy) An inosilicate mineral of potassium, zirconium and titanium


rhodizite

From the Greek, rhodizein = to be rose-coloured, in allusion to its property of turning a blowpipe flame rose-red.
rhodiz- + -ite

(mineralogy) A basic borate mineral of cesium, aluminum and beryllium


strahlstein

strahlstein (countable and uncountable, plural strahlsteins)


fluorapatite

fluorapatite (countable and uncountable, plural fluorapatites)

(mineralogy) A calcium halophosphate mineral, in which fluoride replaces the hydroxide of apatite, that is mined as a phosphate ore, and occurs in the enamel of teeth.


cameronite

From Cameron + -ite after Eugene Cameron, an American geologist.

(mineralogy) A telluride mineral of copper and silver, AgCu₇Te₁₀.


taaffeite

Taaffe + -ite, after Edward Charles Richard Taaffe (1898-1967), Irish gemmologist, who discovered it in a sample set of spinel from whence it was miscategorized

(mineralogy) A rare mauve gemstone with a hexagonal crystal structure.


leonardite

(mineralogy) A dark, vitreous mineraloid produced by surface oxidation of lignite


erionite

erionite (countable and uncountable, plural erionites)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔριον (érion, “wool”) + -ite.

1997, R. P. Nolan, A. M. Langer, Physico-chemical Properties of Inorganic Particles Controlling Biological Activity, J. H. Duffus (chief editor), Carcinogenicity of Inorganic Substances, Royal Society of Chemistry, page 49,
The dust clouds for both the erionite and crocidolite exposures containing 10mg/ m⁻³ of dust, which produce fibre levels of 354 fibre cm⁻³ and 1630 fibre cm⁻³ > 5 µm in length, respectively. The erionite cloud contained fewer fibres and more equant particles.

Moreover, Timblin et al. (1998) reported that while both erionites and crocidolite exposure induced genetic damage, as supported by increased unscheduled DNA synthesis, crocidolite was much faster and more effective than erionite at inducing apoptosis.

2015, Ali K. Hamade, Christopher M. Long, Peter A. Valberg, “Naturally Occurring Mineral Fibers”, in Raymond D. Harbison, Marie M. Bourgeois, Giffe T. Johnson, editors, Hamilton and Hardy's Industrial Toxicology, Wiley, page 1013:

Erionite is one of a large group of silicate minerals called zeolites, microporous aluminosilicates, commonly found in altered volcanic tuffs, volcanic ash and muds derived from them.

2017, Ann G. Wylie, “2: Asbestos and Fibrous Erionite”, in Joseph R. Testa, editor, Asbestos and Mesothelioma, Springer,, page 33:

(mineralogy) A zeolite mineral with a molecular structure similar to chabazite, usually found in weathered volcanic ash.


tungstenite

(archaic) The mineral now known as scheelite


antifluorite

(mineralogy) A mineral crystal structure identical with that of fluorite but with the positions of the cations and anions reversed.


faujasite

faujasite (countable and uncountable, plural faujasites)

Borrowed from French faujasite, named after Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741–1819), French geologist, by Alexis Damour, French mineralogist in 1842.

named-after

(mineralogy) A zeolite mineral consisting of sodalite cages connected through hexagonal prisms.


adipocire

A mineral hydrocarbon, mainly octatriacontane, found in some coal seams


amosite

(mineralogy) A variety of grunerite asbestos, once used in insulation.


saltern

From Old English sealtærn, from sealt (“salt”) + ærn (“place, building”).

(archaeology) An area used for saltmaking, especially in the East Anglian fenlands.


margarite

en-noun

margarite (countable and uncountable, plural margarites)

From Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs, “a pearl”) + -ite.

cog

(mineralogy) A calcium-rich member of the mica group of phyllosilicates, forming white to pinkish or yellowish-gray masses or thin laminae.


stilbite

en-noun

stilbite (countable and uncountable, plural stilbites)

From Ancient Greek στίλβω (stílbō, “shine”) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A tectosilicate zeolite mineral consisting of hydrated calcium aluminium silicate, common in volcanic rocks.


delafossite

delafossite (countable and uncountable, plural delafossites)

From Delafosse + -ite, after French mineralogist Gabriel Delafosse.

(mineralogy) A mixed oxide mineral of copper and iron.


iddingsite

iddingsite (countable and uncountable, plural iddingsites)

(mineralogy) A mixture of clay minerals and iron oxides formed by alteration of olivine


hiddenite

hiddenite (countable and uncountable, plural hiddenites)

From Hidden + -ite, named after W. E. Hidden.

(mineralogy) A pale green form of spodumene that is sometimes used as a gemstone.


topazolite

(mineralogy) A yellowish form of andradite


tungstite

tungstite (usually uncountable, plural tungstites)

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic hydrous tungsten oxide mineral formed by the weathering of other tungsten-containing minerals.


piemontite

piemontite (usually uncountable, plural piemontites)

(mineralogy) A monoclinic sorosilicate mineral of the epidote group, reddish in colour.


latiumite

(mineralogy) A rare phyllosilicate mineral.


melanite

melanite (countable and uncountable, plural melanites)

(mineralogy) A black variety of andradite.


argutite

(mineralogy) A germanium dioxide mineral.


asisite

Asis, a farm in Namibia where it was mined + -ite.

(mineralogy) A yellow tetragonal mineral.


andersonite

From Anderson + -ite, after Charles Alfred Anderson (1902-1990) of the United States Geological Survey.

(mineralogy) A rare uranium carbonate mineral found in sandstone-hosted uranium.


antimonselite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic sulfosalt mineral containing antimony and selenium.


ameghinite

From Ameghino + -ite, after the Argentine geologist brothers Carlos Ameghino (1865–1936) and Florentino Ameghino (1854–1911).

(mineralogy) A soft monoclinic mineral found in Argentina.


johannite

After Archduke John of Austria (1782-1859), the founder of the Landesmuseum Joanneum in Styria, Austria + -ite.

(mineralogy) A rare green uranium sulfate mineral.


arcubisite

(mineralogy) A sulfosalt mineral occurring with cryolite in Greenland.


aurostibite

(mineralogy) A rare isometric gold antimonide mineral of the pyrite group.


alforsite

John T. Alfors (1930-2005) of the California Geological Survey + -ite.

(mineralogy) A hexagonal phosphate mineral of the apatite group, composed of barium, phosphorus, chlorine, and oxygen.


akatoreite

Named after its type locality: Akatore Creek, Otago Region, New Zealand
From Akatore + -ite.

(mineralogy) A yellow-orange triclinic mineral found in New Zealand and containing aluminium, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen and silicon.


atheneite

(mineralogy) A rare metallic compound usually associated with palladium–gold deposits, chemically similar to graphite.


artroeite

Art Roe (American chemist Arthur Roe) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A lead-aluminium-fluorine mineral found in Arizona.


aguilarite

Aguilar + -ite, after mine superintendent Ponciano Aguilar.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic sulfosalt mineral found in Mexico.


alamosite

From Álamos + -ite, after the locality in Mexico where it was first found, which is in turn from Spanish álamo (“poplar”).

(mineralogy) A lead-silicon mineral found in Mexico.


alloclasite

allo- (“different”) + Ancient Greek κλάω (kláō, “break”) + -ite, due to its cleavage pattern distinct from that of marcasite.

(mineralogy) A brittle monoclinic sulfosalt mineral of the arsenopyrite group.


altaite

Altai Mountains, where it was discovered + -ite.

(mineralogy) Lead telluride, an isometric yellowish-white mineral of the galena group.


arthurite

From Arthur + -ite, after mineralogists Sir Arthur Russell and Arthur W. G. Kingsbury.

(mineralogy) An apple-green monoclinic mineral.


anandite

Named in 1967 by D. B. Pattiaratchi, Esko Saari, and Thure Georg Sahama in honor of Ananda Coomaraswamy + -ite.

(mineralogy) A usually monoclinic mineral of the mica group.


algodonite

Named after the Algodones silver mine in Chile + -ite; the name of the mine comes from Spanish algodones (“cottons”).

(mineralogy) A hexagonal copper arsenide mineral.


antlerite

(mineralogy) A greenish hydrous copper sulfate mineral.

antleriitti

a greenish hydrous copper sulfate mineral


auricupride

(mineralogy) A natural alloy of copper and gold, found as a cubic reddish-yellow mineral.


archerite

(mineralogy) A phosphate mineral found in guano caves.


artinite

Ettore Artini (1866-1928), Italian mineralogist, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A hydrated magnesium carbonate mineral that forms white silky monoclinic prismatic crystals.


ahlfeldite

From Ahlfeld + -ite, after the engineer Friedrich Ahlfeld.

(mineralogy) A secondary selenite mineral found in Bolivia.


mgriite

From MGRI + -ite, from an initialism used for the Moscow Institute of Geological Exploration.

Dimorpheous minerals like bellidoite and berzelianite are as much indistinguishable like intergrowths of the minerals berzelianite, mgriite and lollingite using backscattered and secondary electron images. Optical microscopy is the key to overcome these problems.

2007, T. Schlothauer, A. D. Renno, G. Heide, Keeping Track of the Selenide Zoo:

(mineralogy) A copper-arsenic-selenium mineral.


alstonite

After German Alstonit, from Alston Moor where it was discovered.

(mineralogy) An aragonite mineral consisting of an isomorphous mixture of calcium and barium carbonates.


aikinite

From Aikin + -ite, after Arthur Aikin (1773-1854), English geologist.

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


atacamite

atacamite (countable and uncountable, plural atacamites)

(mineralogy) A green copper(II) chloride hydroxide mineral, polymorphous with botallackite.


agrinierite

From Agrinier + -ite, after Henry Agrinier, engineer for the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique.

(mineralogy) A mineral often found in the oxidation zone of uranium deposits.

Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique
agrinierite


allophane

allophane (countable and uncountable, plural allophanes)

(mineralogy) An amorphous hydrous aluminium silicate clay mineral

allofaani

an amorphous hydrous aluminium silicate clay mineral


astrophyllite

astrophyllite (countable and uncountable, plural astrophyllites)

From Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”) + φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A rare, brown to golden-yellow hydrous potassium iron titanium silicate mineral, visually identical to kupletskite.


armalcolite

From the names of astronauts (ARM)strong, (AL)drin, and (COL)lins + -ite; it was discovered by the Apollo 11 crew.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral first discovered on the Moon.

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armalcolite

armalkoliitti

an orthorhombic mineral first discovered on the Moon


sylvine

(mineralogy, uncommon) Synonym of sylvite


metacinnabar

(mineralogy) A isometric-hextetrahedral form of the mineral, cinnabar, containing mercury and sulfur and ranging from black to grayish white.


uralite

uralite (countable and uncountable, plural uralites)

(mineralogy) A dark green variety of hornblende or actinolite.


zenzenite

(mineralogy) A mineral containing lead and manganese.


zincsilite

(mineralogy) A mineral containing zinc and silicon.


lopezite

From López + -ite, after Chilean mining engineer Emiliano López Saa (1871-1959).

(mineralogy) A rare red triclinic chromate mineral.


uranophane

uranophane (usually uncountable, plural uranophanes)

(mineralogy) A rare yellow radioactive calcium uranium silicate hydrate mineral that forms from the oxidation of uranium-bearing minerals.


langasite

(mineralogy) A mineral form of lanthanum gallium silicate; it may be grown artificially


thortveitite

thortveitite (usually uncountable, plural thortveitites)

From Thortveit + -ite, after Norwegian engineer Olaus Thortveit.

(mineralogy) A scandium yttrium silicate mineral, greyish-green, black or grey in colour, the primary source of scandium.


novaculite

From Latin novācula (“dagger”) plus the suffix -ite.

(geology, mineralogy) A variety of chert, very rich in quartz, that has been used to make whetstones


kalicine

potassium bicarbonate
potassium bicarbonate

(mineralogy) A mineral form of potassium bicarbonate.


fullerite

(chemistry, mineralogy) The solid form of a fullerene.


pistacite

(mineralogy) A green variety of epidote that is rich in iron


tennantite

Originally named "gray sulphuret of copper in dodecahedral crystals" in 1817 by mineralogist James Sowerby.
Renamed in 1819 by William Phillips in honour of Smithson Tennant (1761-1815), an English chemist who discovered the elements iridium and osmium.
Tennant + -ite

(mineralogy) A sulfide mineral of iron, copper and arsenic that is an ore of copper


aphrodite

From stem of Ancient Greek ἀφρός (aphrós, “sea foam, froth”) (for its supposed resemblance) + -ite. This coining matches not only the name of the goddess, but also the popular folk etymology for her by the Ancient Greeks.

der

(mineralogy) A soft and earthy mineral of a white or yellowish color, and with a waxy lustre, found at Langbanshytta in Sweden. It is a hydrated silicate of magnesia, and resembles meerschaum.


wiluite

(mineralogy) A dark green, brownish, or black blocky silicate mineral.


fichtelite

Named for type locality Fichtelgebirge (contracted) (in Germany)) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A rare white monoclinic organic mineral, 7-isopropyl-1,4a-dimethyl-dodecahydro-1H-phenanthrene, found in fossilized wood from Bavaria.


margaritasite

From Margaritas (“uranium deposit in Mexico”) + -ite.

affix

(mineralogy) A yellow monoclinic caesium-bearing mineral in the carnotite group.


natroalunite

en-noun

natroalunite (usually uncountable, plural natroalunites)

(mineralogy) A relatively rare mineral, a sodium-rich form of alunite.


erubescite

From Latin ērubēscō (“I redden”) + -ite.

(obsolete, mineralogy) Synonym of bornite


przhevalskite

(mineralogy) A vitreous, orthorhombic yellow or green phosphate mineral.


hardystonite

From Hardystone + -ite, after Hardyston Township, New Jersey.

(mineralogy) A rare purple fluorescent silicate mineral.

Hardyston Township, New Jersey
hardystonite


schwertmannite

schwertmannite (usually uncountable, plural schwertmannites)

From Schwertmann + -ite, after Udo Schwertmann (born 1927), German soil scientist.

(mineralogy) An opaque tetragonal iron-oxyhydroxysulfate mineral.


svanbergite

From Svanberg + -ite, named after Swedish chemist Lars Fredrik Svanberg (1805–1878).

named-after

(mineralogy) A rhombohedral mineral with the chemical formula SrAl₃(PO₄)(SO₄)(OH)₆.


upalite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing aluminium, uranium, oxygen, phosphorus, and hydrogen.


bowieite

From Bowie + -ite, after Scottish geologist Stanley Bowie (1917–2008).

(mineralogy) A rhodium-iridium-platinum sulfide mineral.


brammallite

Named after British geologist and mineralogist Alfred Brammall (1879–1954), + -ite.

(mineralogy) A sodium-rich analogue of illite.


bromellite

Named after Swedish chemist Magnus von Bromell (1670–1731) + -ite

(mineralogy) A white oxide mineral containing beryllium.


braunite

en-noun

braunite (countable and uncountable, plural braunites)

From Braun + -ite after alderman Braun of Gotha, Thuringia, Germany.

(mineralogy) A silicate mineral containing divalent and trivalent manganese and forming grey-black tetragonal crystals.


briartite

(mineralogy) An opaque iron-grey metallic sulfide mineral.


brushite

From Brush + -ite after American mineralogist George Jarvis Brush (1831-1912).

(mineralogy) A mineral formed by the interaction of guano with calcite and clay at a low pH, believed to be a precursor of apatite.


brianite

From Brian + -ite after Brian Harold Mason, a pioneer in meteoritics.

(mineralogy) A phosphate mineral with the chemical formula Na₂CaMg(PO₄)₂, first identified in an iron meteorite.


brewsterite

From Brewster + -ite after Sir David Brewster, who described it in 1822.

(mineralogy) Any of a series of hydrothermal tectosilicate minerals of the zeolite group.


bismuthite

bismuthite (countable and uncountable, plural bismuthites)

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic bismuth carbonate mineral.


bromargyrite

(mineralogy) A natural mineral form of silver bromide.


bournonite

bournonite (countable and uncountable, plural bournonites)

From Bournon + -ite after French crystallographer and mineralogist Jacques Louis de Bournon (1751–1825).

(mineralogy) A sulfosalt mineral, a sulfantimonite of lead and copper.


brazilianite

(mineralogy) A typically yellow-green phosphate mineral and precious stone, most commonly found in phosphate-rich pegmatites.


blossite

From Bloss + -ite, after Donald Bloss (born 1920).

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic copper vanadate mineral related to ziesite.


bismite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral, bismuth trioxide.


bismuthinite

bismuthinite (countable and uncountable, plural bismuthinites)

(mineralogy) A soft bismuth sulfide mineral, an important ore for bismuth.


barstowite

From Barstow + -ite after Richard W. Barstow, Cornish mineral collector.

(mineralogy) A transparent to white monoclinic halide mineral.


dickite

dickite (countable and uncountable, plural dickites)

From Dick + -ite after Allan Brugh Dick (1833-1926), Scottish metallurgical chemist.

(mineralogy) A phyllosilicate clay mineral chemically composed of aluminium, silicon, hydrogen and oxygen.


otavite

(mineralogy) A rare trigonal cadmium carbonate mineral.


otwayite

(mineralogy) A green orthorhombic hydrated nickel carbonate mineral.


oregonite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal nickel iron arsenide mineral.


ussingite

From Ussing + -ite, after Niels Viggo Ussing (1864-1911).

(mineralogy) A white or reddish-pink silicate mineral with chemical formula Na₂AlSi₃O₈(OH).


ulrichite

From Ulrich + -ite, after G. H. F. Ulrich.

(mineralogy) A rare green uranium phosphate mineral.


drysdallite

Named after director of the Geological Survey of Zambia Alan Roy Drysdall + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A rare, opaque molybdenum selenium sulfide mineral.


diadochite

(mineralogy) A phosphosulfate mineral with a greenish-yellow to brown colour.


ordonezite

From Ordóñez + -ite, after Mexican geologist Ezequiel Ordóñez (1867-1950).

(mineralogy) A tetragonal pyramidal mineral found in rhyolite fractures.


domeykite

en-noun

domeykite (countable and uncountable, plural domeykites)

From Domeyko + -ite, after Polish mineralogist Ignacy Domeyko.

(mineralogy) An isometric copper arsenide mineral, Cu₃As.


ottrelite

ottrelite (countable and uncountable, plural ottrelites)

Named for type locality Ottré (in Vielsalm, Belgium) + -lite.

(mineralogy) A form of the mineral chloritoid.


uvarovite

uvarovite (countable and uncountable, plural uvarovites)

From Uvarov + -ite, after Count Sergei Semenovitch Uvarov (1765-1855).

(mineralogy) A rare chromium-bearing garnet mineral with a vivid emerald-green colour.


uranopilite

From uranium + Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos, “felt”) + -ite, alluding to its composition and habit (containing uranium) and felt-like appearance.

(mineralogy) A fluorescent radioactive mineral, hydrated uranyl sulfate hydroxide.


libethenite

From German Libethen (“Ľubietová, Slovakia, where it was discovered”).

uder

(mineralogy) A rare copper phosphate hydroxide mineral that forms striking dark green orthorhombic crystals.


gregoryite

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


miserite

From Miser (“a surname”) + -ite, named for Dr. Hugh D. Miser, a geologist of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Miserite is rare at Mont Saint-Hilaire, but may be locally abundant.

1989, Joseph Anthony Mandarino, Violet Anderson, Monteregian Treasures: The Minerals of Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, page 141:

(mineralogy) A lilac-pink or red triclinic-pinacoidal rare-earth mineral of interest also for cleaning up radioactive and other wastes and for ceramics.


domite

From Puy-de-Dôme, where it is found, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A greyish variety of trachyte.


amicite

From Amici + -ite, after physicist Giovan Battista Amici (1786–1863).

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


glaucodot

(mineralogy) A cobalt iron arsenic sulfide mineral; with formula (Co,Fe)AsS.


masuyite

From Masuy + -ite, after Belgian geologist Gustave Masuy (1905–1945).

(mineralogy) A uranium/lead oxide mineral.


whewellite

en-noun

whewellite (usually uncountable, plural whewellites)

Named after English naturalist William Whewell (1794–1866), + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A mineral, hydrated calcium oxalate.


chlorargyrite

(mineralogy) The mineral form of silver chloride.


moraesite

(mineralogy) A beryllium-phosphorus mineral.


noonkanbahite

(mineralogy) A potassic batisite mineral.


shcherbakovite

(mineralogy) A particular batisite mineral.


siderazote

(mineralogy) A rare iron-nitrogen mineral, Fe₅N₂, associated with lava.


gersdorffite

en-noun

gersdorffite (usually uncountable, plural gersdorffites)

From Gersdorff + -ite, after Johann von Gersdorff (1781–1849), owner of the nickel mine at Schladming, Austria (the type locality).

(mineralogy) An isometric nickel arsenic sulfide mineral.


glaucochroite

glaucochroite (usually uncountable, plural glaucochroites)

From Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-gray”) + Ancient Greek χρώς (khrṓs, “color”) + -ite.

af

(mineralogy) A calcium manganese nesosilicate mineral occurring in metamorphosed limestones.


paracelsian

(mineralogy) A natural polymorph of celsian.


polycrase

en-noun

polycrase (usually uncountable, plural polycrases)

(mineralogy) A black or brown amorphous metallic complex uranium yttrium oxide mineral, found in granitic pegmatites.


pararealgar

(mineralogy) A crumbly arsenic sulfide material that forms gradually from realgar under exposure to light.


weloganite

W E Logan (Canadian geologist Sir William Edmond Logan) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A rare triclinic carbonate mineral, usually white, lemon yellow, or amber, and sometimes translucent.


petzite

petzite (countable and uncountable, plural petzites)

From Petz + -ite, after chemist W. Petz.

(mineralogy) A soft, steel-gray isometric telluride mineral generally deposited by hydrothermal activity and usually associated with rare tellurium and gold minerals.


ekanite

ekanite (usually uncountable, plural ekanites)

From the name of F. L. D. Ekanayake, who first described it, + -ite.

(mineralogy) An uncommon mineral, one of very few gemstones that are naturally radioactive. (It contains thorium.)


gymnite

gymnite (usually uncountable, plural gymnites)

(mineralogy) An amorphous form of antigorite.


celsian

(mineralogy) An uncommon monoclinic feldspar mineral, barium aluminosilicate, found in contact metamorphic rocks with significant barium content.


clintonite

clintonite (countable and uncountable, plural clintonites)

From Clinton + -ite. From DeWitt Clinton, the politician for whom it is named in honor of.

(mineralogy) A calcium magnesium aluminium phyllosilicate mineral of the margarite group of micas.


xanthophyllite

xanthophyllite (usually uncountable, plural xanthophyllites)

From Ancient Greek ξανθός (xanthós, “yellow”) and φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”), for its color and micaceous appearance, + -ite.

uder

(mineralogy, outdated) A synonym of clintonite. The International Mineralogical Association's Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) recommends using clintonite as a replacement in all cases.


clinoatacamite

(mineralogy) A basic chloride of copper, Cu₂(OH)₃Cl related to azurite.


paratacamite

(mineralogy) A rhombohedral form of basic copper chloride that is dimorphous with tacamite


spangolite

en-noun

spangolite (countable and uncountable, plural spangolites)

Named after Norman Spang of Pittsburg, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A dark green, basic aluminosilicate mineral of copper with the chemical formula Cu₆Al(SO₄)(OH)₁₂Cl · 3H₂O.


kunzite

kunzite (countable and uncountable, plural kunzites)

(mineralogy) A pink- to lilac-colored gemstone, a variety of spodumene.


crednerite

(mineralogy) A dark grey mineral that is a mixed oxide of copper and manganese.


portlandite

portlandite (countable and uncountable, plural portlandites)

(mineralogy) A rare oxide mineral, the naturally-occurring form of calcium hydroxide.


paragonite

paragonite (countable and uncountable, plural paragonites)

(mineralogy) A mineral related to muscovite.


linnaeite

linnaeite (countable and uncountable, plural linnaeites)

Named in honour of Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A cobalt sulfide mineral that forms a series with polydymite.


clausthalite

clausthalite (usually uncountable, plural clausthalites)


gmelinite

gmelinite (countable and uncountable, plural gmelinites)

From Gmelin + -ite, after Christian Gottlob Gmelin (1792–1860).

(mineralogy) A rare zeolite mineral related to chabazite.


bakhchisaraitsevite

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


chaoite

(mineralogy) A supposed allotrope of carbon whose existence is disputed.


cadmoselite

(mineralogy) A rare hexagonal cadmium selenide mineral, black to grey in colour.


calderite

calderite (usually uncountable, plural calderites)

From Calder + -ite, after geologist James Calder.


barbertonite

From Barberton + -ite, after Barberton district, Transvaal, South Africa.

(mineralogy) A magnesium chromium carbonate mineral, a hexagonal polymorph of stichtite.


weissite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal copper telluride mineral.


kitaibelite

(mineralogy) A particular pavonite mineral.


sztrokayite

(mineralogy) A bismuth-sulphur-tellurium mineral.


chalcophyllite

(mineralogy) A rare secondary copper arsenate mineral occurring in the oxidized zones of some arsenic-bearing copper deposits.


yttrotitanite

yttrotitanite (usually uncountable, plural yttrotitanites)

(mineralogy) A brownish-black variety of titanite.


zajacite

From Zajac + -ite, after Dr. Ihor S. Zajac.

(mineralogy) A rare radioactive fluoride mineral.


polydymite

polydymite (usually uncountable, plural polydymites)

(mineralogy) An isometric supergene sulfide mineral, dark violet gray to copper-red, associated with the weathering of primary pentlandite nickel sulfide.


galaxite

galaxite (usually uncountable, plural galaxites)

From Galax + -ite after the town of Galax, Virginia, USA.

(mineralogy) A brownish-red spinel mineral found in carbonate-rich metamorphosed manganese ore deposits.


vantasselite

Named after Belgian mineralogist René Van Tassel (1916–2013), + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A rare, white, orthorhombic aluminium phosphate mineral.


zhonghuacerite

From Zhonghua, the toneless pinyin transcription for Chinese 中華／中华 + cerite.

(mineralogy) A cerium-bearing mineral found in China, now generally believed to be a form of kukharenkoite or huanghoite.


mottramite

mǒʹ trə mītˈ

1875-80 Named after Mottram, England, where it was first identified

(mineralogy) A mineral composed of a lead and copper vanadate.


prasine

From Middle English [Term?], from a combination of Middle French prame (inherited from Late Latin prasinus) and Middle French prasine (borrowed from Late Latin prasinum), both ultimately from Latin prasinus (“leek-green”), from Ancient Greek πράσινος (prásinos), from πράσον (práson, “leek”).

It is possible that just as chrysocolla is silicated malachite, so prasine is phosphated malachite; the physical appearance of these minerals strongly confirms this view.

1864 November 5, William Crookes, editor, The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science: […] , volume 10, number 257, London: J. H. Dutton, […] , →OCLC, Revision of the Mineral Phosphates, page 217, column 1:


fougerite

From Fougères + -ite, after a commune in France where it was found.

Typical fougèrite crystals are small enough to become embedded in protocell membranes, which turns these crystals into natural channels, transporting and concentrating a chemical called pyrophosphate within these membranes.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 233:

(mineralogy) A trigonal clay mineral that is chemically and structurally related to green rust.


hair stone

en-noun

hair stone (countable and uncountable, plural hair stones)

(mineralogy) Clear quartz crystal containing coloured filaments caused by impurities. Particular kinds are sometimes known as Venus’s hair stone or Thetis’s hair stone.


zietrisikite

zietrisikite (usually uncountable, plural zietrisikites)

(mineralogy) A mineral wax resembling ozocerite.


wasite

(mineralogy) A variety of allanite from Sweden supposed to contain wasium.


warwickite

warwickite (countable and uncountable, plural warwickites)

From Warwick + -ite, from Warwick, Orange County, New York, USA.

(mineralogy) An iron magnesium titanium borate mineral occurring as brown to black prismatic orthorhombic crystals.


yttrocerite

(mineralogy) A violet-blue mineral, a hydrous fluoride of cerium, yttrium, and calcium.


coquimbite

From Coquimbo + -ite, after the province of Chile where it was found.

(mineralogy) The nonahydrate of iron(III) sulfate.


yttrotantalite

yttrotantalite (usually uncountable, plural yttrotantalites)

(mineralogy) A brown or black tantalate of uranium, yttrium, and calcium.


pargasite

pargasite (countable and uncountable, plural pargasites)

From Pargas + -ite, after its locality in Finland.

(mineralogy) A complex inosilicate mineral of the amphibole group.


simonkolleite

From Simon + Kolle + -ite. Named after mineral collectors Werner Simon and Kurt Kolle.

(mineralogy) A rare zinc chloride mineral.


gladite

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


ekebergite

(archaic, mineralogy) Wernerite, a scapolite mineral.


bariopyrochlore

(mineralogy) A basic fluoride mineral similar to pyrochlore but containing barium.


strontiopyrochlore

(mineralogy) A basic fluoride mineral similar to pyrochlore but containing strontium


jenite

(mineralogy, archaic) The mineral ilvaite.


kotschubeite

(mineralogy) A chromium chlorite mineral.


kobellite

Named after German mineralogist Wolfgang Xavier Franz Ritter von Kobell (1803–1882), + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A grey, fibrous, metallic mineral, a sulfide of antimony, bismuth, and lead.


campylite

en-noun

campylite (countable and uncountable, plural campylites)

Ancient Greek καμπούρα (kampoúra, “bent”), on account of the barrel-shaped bend of its crystals.


mimetite

en-noun

mimetite (countable and uncountable, plural mimetites)

Ancient Greek Μιμητής (Mimētḗs), "imitator", from its similarity to pyromorphite.

(mineralogy) An arsenate mineral which forms in lead deposits, usually by the oxidation of galena and arsenopyrite.


kabook

(mineralogy) A clay ironstone found in Sri Lanka.


liparite

liparite (countable and uncountable, plural liparites)


jacupirangite

jacupirangite (countable and uncountable, plural jacupirangites)

(mineralogy) Any of a melanocratic series of igneous rocks of varying composition, the characteristic minerals being purple titanaugite, nepheline, and magnetite or titanoferrite.


melinite

melinite (countable and uncountable, plural melinites)

Borrowed from French mélinite, from Ancient Greek μήλινος (mḗlinos, “quince-yellow”).

der

(mineralogy) A yellow clay mineral from Bavaria.


hampshirite

(mineralogy) A particular steatic pseudomorph, found in New Hampshire.


nacrite

(mineralogy) A basic aluminium silicate clay that is a polymorph of kaolinite


agpaite

(mineralogy) Any of various peralkaline igneous rocks, typically nepheline syenite or phonolite.


villiaumite

(mineralogy) A rare toxic halide mineral composed of sodium fluoride.


isolueshite

(mineralogy) A brownish-black mineral comprising mostly niobium and lanthanum.


quetzalcoatlite

Named after Quetzalcoatl + -ite, the Toltec/Aztec god of the sea, for its blue-green color.

(mineralogy) A blue mineral containing zinc, tellurium, and copper.


zlatogorite

(mineralogy) A silvery-white mineral containing copper, nickel, and antimony.


vyuntspakhkite

From Vyuntspakh + -ite, after a mountain in Russia.

(mineralogy) A mineral comprising mostly aluminosilicates of yttrium, ytterbium and various lanthanides


abenakiite

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


loparite

en-noun

loparite (countable and uncountable, plural loparites)

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


wardite

(mineralogy) A hydrous sodium aluminium phosphate hydroxide mineral, of interest for its rare tetragonal trapezohedral crystallography.


howlite

(mineralogy) A calcium borosilicate hydroxide found in evaporite deposits.


triplite

triplite (countable and uncountable, plural triplites)

(mineralogy) A rare manganese-bearing phosphate mineral.


eudialyte

eudialyte (countable and uncountable, plural eudialytes)

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

uder

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


kukharenkoite

From Kukharenko + -ite, after Russian mineralogist Alexander A. Kukharenko.

(mineralogy) A radioactive mineral containing barium, cerium, and fluorine.


vishnevite

en-noun

vishnevite (usually uncountable, plural vishnevites)


kinoshitalite

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


violarite

(mineralogy) A red-violet supergene sulfide mineral associated with the weathering and oxidation of primary pentlandite nickel sulfide ore minerals.


tvalchrelidzeite

Named after A.A. Tvalchrelidze (born 1915), academic at the Georgia Academy of Science.
Tvalchrelidze + -ite

(mineralogy) A grey mineral containing mercury, antimony, arsenic, and sulfur.


bayerite

bayerite (countable and uncountable, plural bayerites)


weilite

From Weil + -ite, after René Weil (born 1901), professor of mineralogy at the University of Strasbourg.

(mineralogy) A rare white triclinic arsenate mineral with waxy lustre.


krutovite

(mineralogy) A cubic nickel diarsenide mineral.


metatorbernite

(mineralogy) A radioactive phosphate mineral, a dehydration pseudomorph of torbernite.


painite

From Pain + -ite, after British mineralogist Arthur C. D. Pain.

(mineralogy) A very rare orange-red borate mineral consisting mostly of calcium, zirconium, boron, aluminium, and oxygen.


lansfordite

From Lansford + -ite, after the place in Pennsylvania where it was discovered.

(mineralogy) A soft monoclinic hydrated magnesium carbonate mineral.


schreyerite

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


barrerite

From Barrer + -ite, after British teacher Richard Maling Barrer.

(mineralogy) A white to pinkish tectosilicate zeolite mineral.


trevorite

From Trevor + -ite, after South African mining inspector Major Tudor Gruffydd Trevor.

(mineralogy) A very rare black nickeliferous mineral of the spinel group.


baotite

baotite (usually uncountable, plural baotites)

(mineralogy) A rare tetragonal mineral with a unique fourfold silicate ring.


euchroite

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

(mineralogy) A green hydrated copper arsenate hydroxide mineral.


daqingshanite

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


lanthanite

lanthanite (countable and uncountable, plural lanthanites)

(mineralogy) A radioactive mineral, a carbonate of the rare earth elements lanthanum, cerium, and neodymium.


zugshunstite

(mineralogy) A mineral comprising mostly cerium and oxygen.


zemkorite

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


jimboite

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

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


zdenekite

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

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


scorzalite

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

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


tusionite

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

(mineralogy) A rare trigonal borate mineral.


triploidite

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

(mineralogy) An uncommon monoclinic manganese iron phosphate mineral.


johnsomervilleite

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


vaesite

vaesite (usually uncountable, plural vaesites)

From Vaes + -ite, after Belgian mineralologist Johannes F. Vaes.

(mineralogy) A nickel-sulfur mineral found with cattierite.


valentinite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic antimony oxide mineral.


naujakasite

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


zincowoodwardite

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


zeophyllite

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


zircosulfate

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


schreibersite

schreibersite (countable and uncountable, plural schreibersites)

From Schreibers + -ite, after Austrian scientist Karl Franz Anton von Schreibers (1775-1852).

(mineralogy) A tetragonal iron nickel phosphide mineral most commonly found in meteorites.


zavaritskite

From Zavaritskii + -ite, after Aleksandr Zavaritskii.

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


zincolibethenite

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


zwieselite

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

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


zodacite

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


vauxite

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

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


viitaniemiite

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


tuperssuatsiaite

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


rosenbergite

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

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


quadridavyne

(mineralogy) A mineral found in volcanic ash.


fukalite

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

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


zoubekite

From Zoubek + -ite, after Vladimír Zoubek.

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


evenkite

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

(mineralogy) A rare hydrocarbon mineral.


nadorite

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

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


iraqite

(mineralogy) A greenish-yellow radioactive mineral.


mccrillisite

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


taseqite

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


cornwallite

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

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


ferrokinoshitalite

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


yvonite

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


wagnerite

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

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


tsnigriite

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


welshite

(mineralogy) A complex mineral containing magnesium and antimony.


samsonite

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

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


zeuxite

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

der

(mineralogy, obsolete) A form of green tourmaline.


o'danielite

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

named-after

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


hawleyite

From Hawley + -ite, after James Edwin Hawley.

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


ettringite

en-noun

ettringite (countable and uncountable, plural ettringites)

(mineralogy) A trigonal hydrous calcium aluminium sulfate mineral.


wodginite

wodginite (countable and uncountable, plural wodginites)

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


hedenbergite

hedenbergite (countable and uncountable, plural hedenbergites)

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

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


hapkeite

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

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


melonite

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

(mineralogy) A nickel telluride mineral.


mendozite

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


canfieldite

canfieldite (usually uncountable, plural canfieldites)

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

(mineralogy) A rare silver tin sulfide mineral.


meneghinite

meneghinite (countable and uncountable, plural meneghinites)

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

(mineralogy) A blackish-grey orthorhombic sulfosalt mineral.


meionite

meionite (countable and uncountable, plural meionites)

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

af

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


sanbornite

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

(mineralogy) A rare orthorhombic barium phyllosilicate mineral.


argyrodite

en-noun

argyrodite (countable and uncountable, plural argyrodites)

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


struvite

struvite (countable and uncountable, plural struvites)

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

named-after

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


weddellite

Named for type locality Weddell Sea in Antarctica, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A tetragonal mineral form of calcium oxalate.


hauerite

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

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


mcbirneyite

From McBirney + -ite, after Alexander Robert McBirney.

(mineralogy) A copper-oxygen-vanadium mineral.


zellerite

(mineralogy) A soft mineral containing calcium and uranium.


tincalconite

(mineralogy) A hydrous sodium borate mineral closely related to borax.


miargyrite

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

(mineralogy) A sulfide of silver and antimony.


veatchite

(mineralogy) A strontium borate mineral.


saponite

en-noun

saponite (countable and uncountable, plural saponites)

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

coin

(mineralogy) A trioctahedral smectite mineral.


zemannite

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


zincroselite

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


yofortierite

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


zincaluminite

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


zincospiroffite

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


yuanjiangite

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


zirsinalite

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


zapatalite

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

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


yoshiokaite

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


zincovoltaite

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


yixunite

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


yoderite

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


zairite

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


yuanfuliite

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


zirklerite

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


yugawaralite

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


zincgartrellite

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


yeatmanite

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


zincostaurolite

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


yarrowite

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


yavapaiite

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


yecoraite

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


yagiite

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


yushkinite

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

named-after

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


yedlinite

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


yingjiangite

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


yaroslavite

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


voglite

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


yafsoanite

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


yakhontovite

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


woodwardite

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


wyllieite

After Peter John Wyllie, American geologist, + -ite

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


vistepite

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


wicksite

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


wheatleyite

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

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


yimengite

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


vochtenite

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


wycheproofite

After Wycheproof, northwestern Victoria, Australia, + -ite

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


waylandite

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


vladimirite

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


woodallite

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


willemseite

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


virgilite

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


wilcoxite

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

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


voltaite

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


vismirnovite

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


osarsite

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


norrishite

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


nefedovite

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


wilhelmvierlingite

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


wallkilldellite

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


wakabayashilite

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


westerveldite

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


natalyite

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


oenite

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


wattevillite

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


volynskite

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


bearsite

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

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


wickenburgite

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


palladoarsenide

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


nisbite

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


apjohnite

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

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


baghdadite

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


aminoffite

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

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


baricite

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


avogadrite

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


behoite

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


baylissite

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


vlasovite

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

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


stottite

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


bayleyite

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


srilankite

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


anorthominasragrite

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

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


yoshimuraite

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


beaverite

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

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


arsenogorceixite

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


serendibite

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


taimyrite

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


springcreekite

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

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


tavorite

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


neltnerite

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


stanleyite

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

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


threadgoldite

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

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


anthonyite

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

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


szymanskiite

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

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


tsumcorite

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


tinsleyite

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


szaibelyite

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

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


szenicsite

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


tilleyite

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


uralolite

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


tsumgallite

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


utahite

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


zincrosasite

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


tengchongite

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


ushkovite

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


thorutite

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


thorogummite

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


tellurohauchecornite

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


uvanite

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


tiptopite

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


ternesite

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


vimsite

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


quenselite

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

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


telyushenkoite

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


tegengrenite

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


tilasite

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


turkestanite

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


tooeleite

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


vinogradovite

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


tuliokite

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


uranpyrochlore

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


altisite

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

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


tsumoite

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


vanuralite

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


trabzonite

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


villyaellenite

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


tuzlaite

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


wroewolfeite

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


walfordite

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


vergasovaite

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


umbozerite

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

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


wilkinsonite

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


vikingite

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


vanmeersscheite

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


ungemachite

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


vyacheslavite

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

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


vanalite

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


tvedalite

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


tsaregorodtsevite

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


uytenbogaardtite

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


tyretskite

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


tristramite

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


wilhelmramsayite

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


vandenbrandeite

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


trogtalite

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


trigonite

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


vandendriesscheite

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


tschernichite

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


satpaevite

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


trilithionite

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


telluropalladinite

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


telargpalite

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

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


trolleite

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


truscottite

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

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


uranotungstite

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


turanite

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


symplesite

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

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


queitite

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


vanoxite

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


uranopolycrase

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


sclarite

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


ursilite

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


schneebergite

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


kalipyrochlore

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


sarcolite

en-noun

sarcolite (usually uncountable, plural sarcolites)

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

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


cuprostibite

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


varulite

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


edgarbaileyite

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


quadratite

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


sadanagaite

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

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


dietzeite

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

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


cuprosklodowskite

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


johnbaumite

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


izoklakeite

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


collinsite

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


kryzhanovskite

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


kupcikite

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


carbokentbrooksite

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


senegalite

From Senegal + -ite, from the type locality.

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


cattiite

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

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


jeromite

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


cesanite

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


joesmithite

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


kuranakhite

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


kamchatkite

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


cuprospinel

cuprospinel (usually uncountable, plural cuprospinels)

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


johannsenite

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


bazirite

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


khanneshite

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


kanonaite

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


ktenasite

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


korzhinskite

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


kanonerovite

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


urancalcarite

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


kornelite

Borrowed from Hungarian kornelit, after its discoverer Kornel Hlavacsek.

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


jixianite

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


keyite

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


kampfite

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


vanthoffite

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

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

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

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

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

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


althausite

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

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


kupletskite

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

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


ixiolite

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

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


kurchatovite

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


johninnesite

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


klyuchevskite

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


kentbrooksite

Named for geologist C. Kent Brooks + -ite

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


khinite

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

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


johntomaite

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


jonesite

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


kolovratite

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

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


smithite

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


manandonite

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


kuznetsovite

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


jolliffeite

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


jinshajiangite

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


liskeardite

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


mammothite

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


kieftite

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


kasolite

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

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


kinichilite

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

named-after

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


laurionite

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


landesite

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


koenenite

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


kribergite

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


jeppeite

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

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


kashinite

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


johillerite

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


kristiansenite

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


landauite

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


kornite

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


iwakiite

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


keckite

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


lawrencite

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


liebauite

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


kazakhstanite

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

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


mandarinoite

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


liebenbergite

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


metavandendriesscheite

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


lawsonbauerite

Named for chemist Lawson H. Bauer + -ite.

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


lourenswalsite

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


mcguinnessite

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


lazarenkoite

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

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


johachidolite

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

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


jianshuiite

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


makovickyite

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


mcgillite

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

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


jeremejevite

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

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


laurelite

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

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


mpororoite

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


mallestigite

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


magnesiokatophorite

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


manganbelyankinite

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


mcauslanite

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


vlodavetsite

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


magnesiosadanagaite

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


pararammelsbergite

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


nickellotharmeyerite

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


metavanmeersscheite

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


potassicpargasite

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


mcallisterite

Named after geologist James Franklin McAllister + -ite

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


magnesiodumortierite

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


mathewrogersite

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


phosphoellenbergerite

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


proudite

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


kegelite

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

named-after

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


petscheckite

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


piypite

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

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


potassicsadanagaite

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


metatyuyamunite

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


pellyite

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


penkvilksite

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


mcgovernite

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

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


paracoquimbite

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


penfieldite

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

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


magnesiostaurolite

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


phaunouxite

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


orthominasragrite

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


voggite

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


lamprophyllite

en-noun

lamprophyllite (countable and uncountable, plural lamprophyllites)

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

uder

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


parasibirskite

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


thoreaulite

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


yanomamite

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


potassicleakeite

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


mcalpineite

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

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


mcnearite

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


phosphowalpurgite

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