merwinite

After Herbert Eugene Merwin, American mineralogist, + -ite.

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


metaheinrichite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal yellowish green mineral containing arsenic, barium, hydrogen, oxygen, and uranium.


metahohmannite

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


metakahlerite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal sulfur yellow mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and uranium.


metakirchheimerite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal light pink mineral containing arsenic, cobalt, hydrogen, oxygen, and uranium.


metalodevite

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


metamunirite

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


metarossite

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


metaschoepite

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


metasideronatrite

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


metastudtite

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


metaswitzerite

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


metavanuralite

From meta- + vanuralite. Named because it is a dehydrated form of vanuralite; mineralogical naming convention uses Ancient Greek μετά (metá, “above”) for minerals whose only difference is the hydration level.

(mineralogy) A triclinic lemon mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, uranium, and vanadium.


metavariscite

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


metavauxite

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


metavivianite

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


metavoltine

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


metazellerite

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


metazeunerite

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


meymacite

(mineralogy) An amorphous yellow brown mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.


miassite

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


micheelsenite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, carbon, dysprosium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and yttrium.


michenerite

(mineralogy) An isometric-tetartoidal silver white mineral containing bismuth, palladium, platinum, and tellurium.


microsommite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-trapezohedral mineral containing aluminum, calcium, chlorine, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and sulfur.


miersite

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


miharaite

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


mikasaite

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


milarite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, and silicon.


millisite

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


minamiite

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


minasragrite

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


minehillite

Named for type locality Mine Hill (an area in the mineralogical hotspot in Franklin, New Jersey) + -ite.

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


minguzzite

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


minrecordite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral mineral containing calcium, carbon, oxygen, and zinc.


minyulite

Named for type locality Minyulo Well in Western Australia, + -ite.

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


misenite

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


mitridatite

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


mitryaevaite

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


moctezumite

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


moluranite

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


molybdofornacite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic light green mineral containing arsenic, chromium, copper, hydrogen, lead, molybdenum, oxygen, and phosphorus.


modderite

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


mohrite

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


molybdomenite

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


molybdophyllite

For its composition, Ancient Greek μόλυβδος (mólubdos, “lead”) and crystal habit φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”), + -ite. Note that the prefix molybdo- + here does NOT denote molybdenum; the element is named after the same Greek root.

uder

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-trapezohedral mineral containing hydrogen, lead, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon.


moncheite

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


monetite

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


mongolite

Named for type locality Mongolia, + -ite.

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


monimolite

From Ancient Greek μόνιμος (mónimos, “stable, permanent”) + -lite because it is a mineral that resists chemical decomposition.

der

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing antimony, calcium, lead, and oxygen.


montanite

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


montbrayite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing antimony, gold, and tellurium.


monteponite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral black mineral containing cadmium and oxygen.


montesommaite

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


montgomeryite

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


montroseite

From Montrose + -ite after Montrose County, Colorado, USA.

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


mooreite

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


mopungite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal mineral containing antimony, hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium.


morenosite

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


morimotoite

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


moschelite

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

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing iodine and mercury.


motukoreaite

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


mounanaite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal brownish red mineral containing hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, and vanadium.


mountainite

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


mountkeithite

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


mourite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic violet mineral containing hydrogen, molybdenum, oxygen, and uranium.


mozartite

Named after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), a prolific composer of the Classical era, as the mineral was discovered 200 years after his death.
Mozart + -ite

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


mozgovaite

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


muirite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing barium, calcium, chlorine, fluorine, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and titanium.


mukhinite

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


mummeite

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


mundrabillaite

From Mundrabilla Station (Australia) + -ite.

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


munirite

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


murataite

From Murata + -ite, named after American geochemist Kiguma Jack Murata.

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral black mineral that is a basic oxide and fluoride of yttrium, sodium, zinc, iron, titanium and niobium


murmanite

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


murunskite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal grayish orange cream mineral containing copper, iron, potassium, and sulfur.


mushistonite

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


muthmannite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing gold, silver, and tellurium.


mutinaite

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


nabaphite

(mineralogy) An isometric-tetartoidal colorless mineral containing barium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.


nabiasite

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal dark red mineral containing arsenic, barium, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and vanadium.


nabokoite

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


nacaphite

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


nafertisite

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


nagashimalite

Named after Japanese amateur mineralogist Otokichi Nagashima (1890–1969), + -lite

named-after

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal greenish black mineral containing barium, boron, chlorine, hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, titanium, and vanadium.


nagelschmidtite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal mineral containing calcium, oxygen, phosphorus, and silicon.


nalipoite

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


namansilite

Named for its composition of (NA)trium, (MAN)ganese, and (SIL)icon, + -ite.

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


nambulite

Named after Japanese mineralogist at Tohoku University, Matsuo Nambu (1917–), + -lite.

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal reddish orange brown mineral containing hydrogen, lithium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


namibite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic dark green mineral containing bismuth, copper, oxygen, and vanadium.


namuwite

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


nanlingite

(mineralogy) A trigonal mineral containing arsenic, calcium, fluorine, magnesium, and oxygen.


nantokite

From Nantoko + -ite, named after Nantoko in Chile, where it was found.

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


narsarsukite

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


nasinite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal white mineral containing boron, hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium.


nasledovite

(mineralogy) A triclinic snow white mineral containing aluminum, carbon, hydrogen, lead, manganese, oxygen, and sulfur.


nasonite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dipyramidal white mineral containing calcium, chlorine, lead, oxygen, and silicon.


nastrophite

Clipping of three of its component elements: sodium (Na), strontium, and phosphorus + -ite

(mineralogy) An isometric-tetartoidal colorless mineral containing barium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sodium, and strontium.


natisite

From the chemical symbols Na, Ti and Si, + -ite.

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


natrobistantite

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


natrochalcite

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


natrodufrenite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic light blue green mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.


natrofairchildite

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


natroglaucocerinite

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


natrojarosite

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


natrolemoynite

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


natromontebrasite

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


natronambulite

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natronambulite (usually uncountable, plural natronambulites)

From natro- + nambulite, from the dominance of sodium (natrium).

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


natroniobite

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


natrophosphate

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.


natrosilite

Named for its composition of (NATR)ium and (SIL)icon, + -ite.

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


natrotantite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral colorless mineral containing oxygen, sodium, and tantalum.


neighborite

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


neotocite

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


nepskoeite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic yellowish white mineral containing chlorine, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.


nevadaite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal mineral containing aluminum, copper, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, vanadium, and zinc.


nevskite

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


nichromite

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


nickelalumite

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


nickelaustinite

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


nickelbischofite

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


nickenichite

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


niobokupletskite

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


niobophyllite

For its composition of niobium, and Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”) for its foliated crystal habit, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A triclinic brown mineral containing fluorine, hydrogen, iron, manganese, niobium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and titanium.


niocalite

Named for its composition of (NIO)bium and (CAL)cium, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic light yellow mineral containing calcium, fluorine, niobium, oxygen, and silicon.


nolanite

From Nolan + -ite; named after American geologist Thomas Brennan Nolan (1901–1992).

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal pyramidal black mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, titanium, and vanadium.


norbergite

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


nordstrandite

Nordstrand + -ite after Robert A. Van Nordstrand (1918-2000)

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


norsethite

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


novakite

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


nowackiite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-pyramidal mineral containing arsenic, copper, sulfur, and zinc.


paarite

After W. Paar (a scientist from Salzburg, Austria) + -ite.

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


paceite

Named after its discoverer, Frank L. Pace, + -ite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal dark blue mineral containing calcium, carbon, copper, hydrogen, and oxygen.


pachnolite

From Ancient Greek πάχνη (pákhnē, “frost”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”), for being a mineral close in appearance to ice crystals.

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


paderaite

After K. Padera (Czech scientist) + -ite.

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


padmaite

(mineralogy) An isometric-tetartoidal yellow mineral containing bismuth, palladium, and selenium.


paganoite

After Renato & Adriana Pagano (Italian mineralogists) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal gray mineral containing arsenic, bismuth, cobalt, nickel, and oxygen.


pahasapaite

From Lakota Ȟe Sápa (“Black Hills”) + -ite.

(mineralogy) An isometric-tetartoidal mineral containing beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, lithium, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, and sodium.


palenzonaite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral wine red mineral containing arsenic, calcium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and vanadium.


palermoite

After Palermo (a mine in New Hampshire, USA) + -ite.

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


palladodymite

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


palladseite

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


palmierite

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


paolovite

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


parabrandtite

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


parabutlerite

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


paracostibite

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


paradamite

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


paradocrasite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal silver white mineral containing antimony and arsenic.


parafransoletite

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


parahopeite

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


parajamesonite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic gray mineral containing antimony, iron, lead, and sulfur.


parakeldyshite

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


parakhinite

From para- + khinite, in allusion to its dimorphous relationship to khinite.

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-trapezohedral dark green mineral containing copper, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and tellurium.


paralaurionite

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


paralstonite

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


paramelaconite

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


paramontroseite

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


paranatisite

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


paranatrolite

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


paraotwayite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic emerald green mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, nickel, oxygen, and sulfur.


parapierrotite

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


pararobertsite

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


pararsenolamprite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic lead gray mineral containing antimony and arsenic.


paraschachnerite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal tin white mineral containing mercury and silver.


paraschoepite

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


parascholzite

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


parascorodite

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


paraumbite

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


paravauxite

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


paravinogradovite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pedial white mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and titanium.


parkerite

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


parkinsonite

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


parnauite

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


parsettensite

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


parsonsite

Named after mineralogist Arthur Leonard Parsons + -ite

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


partzite

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


parvowinchite

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


parwelite

Named after Swedish chemist Dr. Alexander Parwel (1906–1978), who analyzed the mineral, + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic yellow brown mineral containing antimony, arsenic, calcium, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


pascoite

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


paulkellerite

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


paulkerrite

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


paulmooreite

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


pautovite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal dark steel gray mineral containing cesium, iron, potassium, rubidium, sulfur, and thallium.


pavonite

From Latin pavo (“peacock”) + -ite, as it was described by Canadian scientist Martin Peacock.

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


pearceite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral black mineral containing antimony, arsenic, copper, silver, and sulfur.


pecoraite

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


peisleyite

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


pekovite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal colorless mineral containing boron, oxygen, silicon, and strontium.


penikisite

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


pennantite

After Thomas Pennant (a Welsh scientist) + -ite.

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


penzhinite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-trapezohedral grayish white mineral containing copper, gold, selenium, silver, and sulfur.


peretaite

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


perhamite

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


perlialite

Named after Russian instructor of mineralogy Lily Alekseevna Perekrest, + -ite. The word is an acronym of her name, last name first.

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal pearl white mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and thallium.


perloffite

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


permingeatite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-scalenohedral pink brown mineral containing antimony, copper, and selenium.


perraultite

From Perrault (“Canadian geologist Guy Perrault (1927-2002”) + -ite.

suffix

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


perryite

From Perry + -ite, named after American newspaperman and leading private collector of meteorites Stuart Hoffman Perry (1874–1957).

named-after

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal gray white mineral containing iron, nickel, phosphorus, and silicon.


pertsevite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal colorless mineral containing boron, calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


petedunnite

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


peterbaylissite

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


petewilliamsite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal mineral containing arsenic, calcium, cobalt, copper, iron, nickel, and oxygen.


petitjeanite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pedial mineral containing bismuth, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.


petrovicite

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


petrovskaite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing gold, selenium, silver, and sulfur.


petrukite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing copper, indium, iron, silver, sulfur, tin, and zinc.


petterdite

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


pharmacolite

en-noun

pharmacolite (usually uncountable, plural pharmacolites)

From Ancient Greek φάρμακον (phármakon, “drug, medicine, poison”) and λίθος (líthos, “stone”), for being an arsenic-bearing mineral.

uder

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


philipsbornite

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


philipsburgite

From Philipsburg + -ite, after Philipsburg, Montana.

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


philolithite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral with the chemical formula Pb₁₂O₆Mn₇(SO₄)(CO₃)₄Cl₄(OH)₁₂.


phosphammite

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


phosphoferrite

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


phosphosiderite

en-noun

phosphosiderite (usually uncountable, plural phosphosiderites)

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


phosphuranylite

For its composition, a phosphorus-bearing mineral with a uranyl anion base, + -ite.

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


phuralumite

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


phurcalite

For its composition of (PH)osphorus, (UR)anium and (CAL)cium, + -ite.

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


phyllotungstite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic yellow mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and tungsten.


pickeringite

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


picotpaulite

Named after French mineralogist Paul Picot (1931–), + -ite.

named-after

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


picropharmacolite

For its composition: from Ancient Greek πικρός (pikrós, “bitter”) in allusion to its magnesium content and φάρμακον (phármakon, “drug, medicine, poison”) for its arsenic content, with the mineral suffix from λίθος (líthos, “stone”). It is similar but not closely related to pharmacolite.

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


pierrotite

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


pillaite

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


pilsenite

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


pimelite

From Ancient Greek πιμελή (pimelḗ, “fat”) for being a mineral with a greasy appearance, + -ite.

(mineralogy, outdated) A hexagonal mineral containing hydrogen, nickel, oxygen, and silicon.


pinakiolite

From Ancient Greek πινάκιον (pinákion, “tablet”) and λίθος (líthos, “stone”) because of the thin, tabular appearance of the crystals.

uder

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


pinalite

Named for type locality Pinal County, Arizona + -ite.

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


pinchite

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


pingguite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic yellowish green mineral containing bismuth, oxygen, and tellurium.


pintadoite

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


piretite

From Piret + -ite, in honour of Paul Piret, Belgian crystallographer.

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


pirquitasite

Pirquitas (a mine in South America) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-scalenohedral gray mineral containing silver, sulfur, tin, and zinc.


plagionite

From Ancient Greek πλάγιος (plágios, “slanted, oblique”) + -ite.

bor

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


planerite

D. I. Planer (a Soviet mining official) + -ite.

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


platarsite

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal gray mineral containing arsenic, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, and sulfur.


plattnerite

K. F. Plattner (a German metallurgist) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing lead and oxygen.


playfairite

From Playfair + -ite. Named after Scottish Professor of Natural Philosophy John Playfair (1748-1819), from Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.


plumbobetafite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, lead, niobium, oxygen, sodium, titanium, tungsten, and uranium.


plumboferrite

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


plumbogummite

en-noun

plumbogummite (usually uncountable, plural plumbogummites)

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


plumbojarosite

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


plumbomicrolite

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


plumbonacrite

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


plumbopalladinite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal white mineral containing lead and palladium.


plumbopyrochlore

plumbopyrochlore (usually uncountable, plural plumbopyrochlores)

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


plumbotellurite

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


plumbotsumite

From Latin plumbum (“lead”), in the mineral's composition, and the locality, Tsumeb, Namibia, + -ite.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal colorless mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and silicon.


poitevinite

poitevinite (countable and uncountable, plural poitevinites)

Named after Canadian mineralogist Théophile Eugène Poitevin (1888–1978) + -ite. The surname is of French origin, see Poitevin.

named-after

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


pokrovskite

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


polhemusite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal black mineral containing mercury, sulfur, and zinc.


polkanovite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dipyramidal gray mineral containing arsenic and rhodium.


polkovicite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral brownish gray mineral containing germanium, iron, lead, and sulfur.


ponomarevite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic orange red mineral containing chlorine, copper, oxygen, and potassium.


potarite

Named after the Potaro River area in Guyana, + -ite

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


potosiite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal white mineral containing antimony, iron, lead, sulfur, and tin.


pottsite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-trapezohedral bright yellow mineral containing bismuth, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and vanadium.


poubaite

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


poudretteite

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


poughite

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


povondraite

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


poyarkovite

Borrowed from Russian Поя́рков (Pojárkov) + -ite. Named in honor of Vladimir Erastovich Poyarkov (1907‒1975).

bor+

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


preisingerite

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


preiswerkite

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


pretulite

Named for type locality Pretul Mountain in the Fischbacher Alpine mountains (in Styria, Austria) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal pale pink mineral containing oxygen, phosphorus, and scandium.


priceite

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


priderite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, barium, iron, oxygen, potassium, sodium, and titanium.


pringleite

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


prismatine

en-noun

prismatine (usually uncountable, plural prismatines)

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


probertite

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


prosperite

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


protasite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic light orange mineral containing barium, hydrogen, oxygen, and uranium.


protoanthophyllite

Named for being a protoamphibole polymorph of anthophyllite.

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


pseudoboleite

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


pseudobrookite

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


pseudocotunnite

From pseudo- + cotunnite, a mineral it resembles in some respects.

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


pseudograndreefite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal colorless mineral containing fluorine, lead, oxygen, and sulfur.


pseudolaueite

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


pseudomalachite

pseudomalachite (countable and uncountable, plural pseudomalachites)

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

pseudomalakiitti

a mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus


pseudosinhalite

From pseudo- + sinhalite, alluding to the optical, chemical, and structural similarity to sinhalite.

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


pushcharovskite

Named after Dmitry Pushcharovsky (born in 1944), Russian geologist and mineralogist at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

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


putoranite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral brass yellow mineral containing copper, iron, and sulfur.


putzite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral iron black mineral containing copper, germanium, silver, and sulfur.


pyroaurite

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


pyrobelonite

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


pyrochroite

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

af

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


pyrophanite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral mineral containing manganese, oxygen, and titanium.


raadeite

From Raade + -ite; named after Dr. Gunnar Raade (1944-), in recognition of his contribution to the mineralogy of magnesium phosphates.

(mineralogy) A colorless mineral, heptamagnesium diphosphate octahydroxy: Mg₇(PO₄)₂(OH)₈.


rabbittite

Named after John Charles Rabbitt of the USGS
Rabbitt + -ite

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


rabejacite

Named after its location of discovery: Rabejac, Occitanie, France
Rabejac + -ite

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


radovanite

Named after Professor Radovan Cerny (born 1957), eminent crystallographer at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, + -ite.

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


radtkeite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing chlorine, iodine, mercury, and sulfur.


raguinite

Named in honour of Eugene Raguin (1900-2001), Professor of Mining Geology at the National School of Mines in Paris, France, + -ite.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic bronze mineral containing iron, sulfur, and thallium.


rajite

Named in honour of Dr. Robert Allen Jenkins (born 1944), discoverer of the mineral in his role as mineralogist with the Phelps Dodge Corporation; initials R.A.J. + -ite.

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


ralstonite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing aluminum, fluorine, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and sodium.


ramdohrite

Named after Paul Ramdohr (1890-1985), mineralogist at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Ramdohr + -ite

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


rameauite

Named after Jacques Rameau, the French prospector who discovered the deposit where the mineral was found
Rameau + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic orange mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, and uranium.


ramsbeckite

Named after its discovered location, Bastenberg Mine, Ramsbeck, Germany
Ramsbeck + -ite

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


rankachite

Named after the Rankach valley in which the Clara mine, the place of discovery, is located
Rankach + -ite

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


rankamaite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, lead, lithium, niobium, oxygen, potassium, sodium, and tantalum.


ransomite

Named after Frederick Leslie Ransome (1868 - 1935), American Professor of mining geology
Ransome + -ite

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


ranunculite

From Latin ranunculus (“buttercup”) + -ite for its golden yellow color.

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


rapidcreekite

Named after the Rapid Creek area, Yukon, Canada, the type locality
Rapid Creek + -ite

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


rappoldite

Named after its discovery locality: Rappold Mine, Neustädtel, Saxony, Germany
Rappold + -ite

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


raslakite

Named after a Raslak Valley, a valley southwest of the type locality at Mt. Karnasurt, Northern Region, Russia
Raslak + -ite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal brownish red mineral containing calcium, chlorine, hydrogen, iron, niobium, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and zirconium.


raspite

Named after Mr. Charles Rasp (1846-1907), a German-Australian prospector and the discoverer of the Broken Hill deposit, where raspite was first found
Rasp + -ite

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


rasvumite

Named after the type locality: Mt. Rasvumchorr, Kola Peninsula, Russia.
Rasvum- + -ite

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


rathite

Named after Gerhard vom Rath (1830-1888), Professor of Mineralogy, Bonn, Germany
Rath + -ite

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


rauenthalite

From Rauenthal + -ite, after a location near the type locality, the Rauenthal Valley in France.

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


rauvite

Named by Frank L. Hess in 1922 from the elemental symbols of its presumed contents: RAdium, Uranium and Vanadium
RA + U + V + -ite

(mineralogy) An amorphous mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, uranium, and vanadium.


rayite

Named after Professor Santosh Kumar Ray (1908-1976), Indian petrologist at President College, Calcutta, India
Ray + -ite

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


rebulite

Named after a Slovenian geologist or mining engineer named Rebula, who discovered the mineral, + -ite.

named-after

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


rectorite

Named in 1891 by Richard Newman Brackett and John Francis Williams in honour of Colonel Elias William Rector (1847-1917), politician and attorney in Hot Springs, Arkansas who supported the formation of the Arkansas Geological Survey.
Rector + -ite

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


reddingite

From Redding + -ite after Redding, Connecticut.

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


redgillite

Named for a mine near the type locality Red Gill Mine (in Cumbria, England) + -ite.

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


redingtonite

Named after its discovery locality, Redington mercury mine, Knoxville, Napa Co., California, USA
Redington + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing aluminum, chromium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, nickel, oxygen, and sulfur.


redledgeite

Named after its discovery locality: Red Ledge Mine, Washington, Nevada Co., California, USA
Red Ledge + -ite

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


reedmergnerite

Named after Frank S. Reed and John L. Mergner, technicians at the USGS.
Reed + Mergner + -ite

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


reevesite

Named in 1967 by John S. White Jr., E.P. Henderson and Brian Mason in honour of Dr. Frank Reeves (1886-1986), exploration geologist who found the Wolf Creek meteorite in 1947.
Reeves + -ite

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


refikite

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


reichenbachite

Named after its discovered locality: Reichenbach, Odenwald, Hesse, Germany
Reichenbach + -ite

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


reinerite

Named in 1958 by Bruno H. Geier and K. Weber in honour of Willy Reiner (1895-1965), Senior Chemist at the Tsumeb Corporation, Namibia, who analyzed the type material
Reiner + -ite

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


reinhardbraunsite

Named after Reinhard Brauns (1867-1937), prolific author of mineralogical works and expert on the volcanic minerals of the Rheinland
Reinhard Brauns + -ite

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


rengeite

Named after Mt. Renge, where the jaeitite deposits are found.
Renge + -ite

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


reppiaite

Named after its discovered location: Valgraveglia Mine, Reppia, Genova Province, Italy
Reppia + -ite

(mineralogy) An orange red mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and vanadium.


retgersite

Named after Jan Willem Retgers (1856-1896), Dutch crystallographer.
Retgers + -ite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-trapezohedral dark green mineral containing hydrogen, nickel, oxygen, and sulfur.


revdite

Named after the mining town of Revda, Murmansk District, Russia, near to the discovery locality.
Revda + -ite

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


reyerite

Named in honour of Eduard Reyer (1849-1914), Austrian geologist
Reyer + -ite

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


rhodarsenide

Named after its chemical composition of rhodium and arsenic.
From rhodo- + arsenide.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic brown mineral containing arsenic, palladium, and rhodium.


rhodesite

Named after Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902), British colonial statesman.
From Rhodes + -ite.

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


rhodostannite

The name reflects both the colour, Greek rhodos = red, and its similarity to the mineral stannite.
rhodo + stannite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal reddish gray mineral containing copper, iron, sulfur, and tin.


ribbeite

Named in 1987 by Donald R. Peacor, Pete J. Dunn, S. C. Su and J. Innes in honour of Paul Hubert Ribbe (1935-2017), professor of mineralogy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
Ribbe + -ite

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


richellite

Named for type locality Richelle (in Belgium) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-pyramidal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and phosphorus.


richelsdorfite

Named after its discovery locality, Wilhelm Mine in the Richelsdorf District of Hesse, Germany.
Richelsdorf + -ite

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


richetite

Named after Emile Richet (1884-1938), Chief Geologist at Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga
Richet + -ite

(mineralogy) A triclinic black mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and uranium.


rilandite

Named after James L. Riland (1857-1936), newspaper publisher from Meeker, Colorado, USA and owner of the claims on which the mineral was discovered
Riland + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic black mineral containing aluminum, chromium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.


rimkorolgite

Named in honour of Olga Mikhailovna Rimskaya-Korsakov (1914-1987), Russian mineralogist at St. Petersburg University
Rimskaya-Korsakov, Olga + -ite

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


rinkite

Named in 1884 by Johannes Theodor Lorenzen in honour of Henrik Johannes Rink (1819-1893), Director of the Royal Greenland Board of Trade at the time.
Rink + -ite
In 2016, the IMA renamed rinkite to rinkite-(Ce), as opposed to rinkite-(Y).

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


rinmanite

Named in honour of Sven Rinman (1720-1792), chemist, mineralogist, author of two mining engineering books and discoverer of the pigment Rinman's green.
Rinman + -ite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, antimony, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and zinc.


riomarinaite

Named after the type locality: Rio Marina Mine, Elba Island, Tuscany, Italy
Rio Marina + -ite

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


rittmannite

Named after Alfred Rittman, Swiss volcanologist.
Rittman + -ite

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


rivadavite

Named after Argentine president Bernardino Rivadavia (1780-1845)
Rivadav- + -ite
There is no connection to the Rivadavia borate mine

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


riversideite

Named after its discovery locality: Crestmore quarries, Riverside Co., California, USA
Riverside + -ite

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


roaldite

From Roald + -ite, after Roald Norbach Nielsen.

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral tin white mineral containing iron, nickel, and nitrogen.


robinsonite

Named in 1951 by Leonard Gascoigne Beryy, Joseph John Fahey and Edgar Herbert Bailey in honour of Stephen Clive Robinson (1911-1981), Canadian mineralogist with the Geological Survey of Canada who synthesized the mineral before it was found naturally.
Robinson + -ite

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


rockbridgeite

From Rockbridge (“Rockbridge County”) + -ite.

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


rodalquilarite

Named after the type locality: Rodalquilar, Níjar, Andalusia, Spain
Rodalquilar + -ite

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


rodolicoite

Named after Francesco Rodolico (1905-1988), Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Florence in Italy, a specialist of the history of geology.
Rodolico + -ite

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


roeblingite

Named in 1897 by Samuel Lewis Penfield and Harry Ward Foote in honour of Colonel Washington A. Roebling (1837-1926), engineer, founder of the Mineralogical Society of America, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge and avid mineral collector.
Roebling + -ite

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


roedderite

Named after Edwin Woods Roedder (1919-2006), winner of the 1986 Roebling Medal and the 1988 Penrose Gold Medal, the president of the Mineralogical Society of America and the geologist who earlier discovered the synthetic compound with the United States Geological Survey.
Roedder + -ite

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


roggianite

Named in honour of Aldo Giuseppe Roggiani (1914-1986), Italian science teacher who found the first specimen and an expert on the mineralogy of the Ossola region
Roggiani + -ite

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


rohaite

Named after John Rose-Hansen (1937-2015), professor of mineralogy at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Rose-Hansen + -ite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal steel gray mineral containing antimony, copper, sulfur, and thallium.


romarchite

Named from the acronym for the Royal Ontario Museum where the mineral was first studied.
Royal Ontario Museum + Archaeology + -ite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal black mineral containing oxygen and tin.


rondorfite

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, chlorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and titanium.


ronneburgite

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


rooseveltite

From Roosevelt + -ite. Named after American politician Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945).

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


roquesite

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


rorisite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal colorless mineral containing calcium, chlorine, fluorine, and magnesium.


roscherite

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


rosemaryite

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


rosenbuschite

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


rosenhahnite

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


roshchinite

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


rosiaite

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


rosickyite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing sulfur.


rossite

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


rossmanite

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


rouaite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal dark emerald green mineral containing copper, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen.


roubaultite

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


rouseite

(mineralogy) A triclinic yellow orange mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, lead, manganese, and oxygen.


rouvilleite

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


rouxelite

Named after French chemist Jean Rouxel (1935–1998), + -ite.

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


roweite

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


roxbyite

roxby + -ite, named after its type locality Roxby Downs Olympic Dam Mine

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic bluish black mineral containing copper and sulfur.


ruarsite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic grayish white mineral containing arsenic, ruthenium, and sulfur.


rubicline

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


rucklidgeite

Named for John Christopher Rucklidge (1938-1921), Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Toronto who first discovered the mineral + -ite

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


rudenkoite

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


ruitenbergite

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


ruizite

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


rusakovite

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


rustenburgite

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


rustumite

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


ruthenarsenite

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


rutheniridosmine

en-noun

rutheniridosmine (usually uncountable, plural rutheniridosmines)

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal white mineral containing iridium, osmium, and ruthenium.


sabelliite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral emerald green mineral containing antimony, arsenic, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and zinc.


sabugalite

Named for type locality Sabugal (Portugal) + -ite.

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


sacrofanite

After the Sacrafano volcano, in Italy, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal colorless mineral containing aluminum, calcium, carbon, chlorine, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and sulfur.


saddlebackite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal grayish white mineral containing bismuth, lead, sulfur, and tellurium.


sailaufite

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


sainfeldite

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


sakhaite

(mineralogy) An isometric-gyroidal mineral containing boron, calcium, carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.


sakharovaite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic lead gray mineral containing antimony, bismuth, iron, lead, and sulfur.


sakuraiite

From Sakurai + -ite, named after Japanese amateur mineralogist Kin-ichi Sakurai.

person

(mineralogy) An isometric mineral containing copper, indium, iron, silver, sulfur, tin, and zinc.


salesite

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


salzburgite

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


samfowlerite

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


sampleite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, chlorine, copper, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, and sodium.


samuelsonite

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


sanjuanite

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


sanmartinite

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


santaclaraite

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


santafeite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal black mineral containing aluminum, arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, sodium, strontium, and vanadium.


santanaite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-trapezohedral straw yellow mineral containing chromium, lead, and oxygen.


sarabauite

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


sarmientite

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


sartorite

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


sasaite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic white mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur.


satimolite

Named for type locality Satimola salt dome in Kazakhstan, + -ite.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic chalky white mineral containing aluminum, boron, chlorine, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, and sodium.


satterlyite

From Satterly + -ite, after Canadian geologist Dr. Jack Satterly.

Satterlyite is a rare hydroxyl-bearing ferrous phosphate with the originally proposed simplified formula (Fe²⁺,Mg)₂(PO₄)OH.

2002, Uwe Kolitsch and Michael Andrut and Gerald Giester, Satterlyite, (Fe,Mg)₁₂(PO₃OH)(PO₄)₅(OH,O)₆: crystal structure and infrared absorption spectra, in "European Journal of Mineralogy", volume 14, issue 1

In the optical spectrum of satterlyite, eight bands are observed and all are attributed to different transitions arising from ferric and ferrous ions.

2003, A.V. Chandrasekhar and M. Venkata Ramanaiah and B.J. Reddy and Y.P. Reddy and P.S. Rao and R.V.S.S.N. Ravikumar, Optical and EPR studies of iron bearing phosphate minerals: satterlyite and gormanite from Yukon Territory, Canada, in "Spectrochimica Acta Part A", volume 59, issue 9

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


sayrite

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


scacchite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing chlorine and manganese.


scainiite

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


scandiobabingtonite

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


scarbroite

(mineralogy) A triclinic white mineral that is a hydrous carbonate of aluminium, Al₅CO₃)(OH)₁₃ · 5H₂O.


scawtite

en-noun

scawtite (countable and uncountable, plural scawtites)

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


schachnerite

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


schafarzikite

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


schairerite

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


schallerite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


schapbachite

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


schaurteite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-ditrigonal dipyramidal silky white mineral containing calcium, germanium, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.


schertelite

Named after German professor of mineralogy Arnulf Schertel (1841–1902), + -ite.

named-after

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


schiavinatoite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal grayish pink mineral containing boron, niobium, oxygen, and tantalum.


schieffelinite

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


schirmerite

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


schlegelite

Named after German mineral collector Fritz Schlegel who found the mineral, + -ite.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal yellow mineral containing arsenic, bismuth, calcium, lead, molybdenum, oxygen, phosphorus, and vanadium.


schlemaite

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


schlossmacherite

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


schmiederite

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


schmitterite

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


schoderite

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


schoenfliesite

From Schoenflies + -ite, after Arthur Moritz Schoenflies (1853-1928), professor of mathematics at the University of Frankfurt.

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal reddish brown mineral containing hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and tin.


scholzite

From Scholz + -ite, after German mineral collector Adolph Scholz (1894–1950).

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


schoonerite

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


schubnelite

Named after French mineralogist Henri-Jean Schubnel (1930–), + -ite.

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


schuetteite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-trapezohedral mineral containing mercury, oxygen, and sulfur.


schulenbergite

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


schultenite

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


schumacherite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing arsenic, bismuth, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and vanadium.


schwartzembergite

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


scotlandite

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


scrutinyite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal dark reddish brown mineral containing lead and oxygen.


sederholmite

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


sedovite

After Georgy Sedov, Russian explorer, + -ite

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


segnitite

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


seidozerite

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


selenostephanite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal lead gray mineral containing antimony, selenium, silver, and sulfur.


selwynite

From Selwyn + -ite, after A. R. C. Selwyn.

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal deep purplish blue mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, and zirconium.


semseyite

en-noun

semseyite (countable and uncountable, plural semseyites)

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


senaite

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


sengierite

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


sergeevite

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


serpierite

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


serrabrancaite

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


sewardite

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


shabynite

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


shadlunite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral bronze mineral containing cadmium, copper, iron, lead, and sulfur.


shafranovskite

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


shakhovite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic mineral containing antimony, hydrogen, mercury, and oxygen.


shandite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral brass yellow mineral containing lead, nickel, and sulfur.


shannonite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal white mineral containing carbon, lead, and oxygen.


sharpite

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


sheldrickite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-pyramidal mineral containing calcium, carbon, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium.


sherwoodite

/ˈʃɜːwʊdaɪt/

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


shibkovite

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


shigaite

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


shirokshinite

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


shirozulite

Named after Japanese professor at University of Kyushu Haruo Shirozu, + -lite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic dark reddish brown mineral containing aluminum, barium, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and titanium.


shkatulkalite

Named after the material it was found in, shkatulka pegmatite, from Russia, derived from Russian шкатулка (škatulka, “small box, jewelry box”); + -lite.

uder

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


shuangfengite

After the village of Shuangfeng in China + -ite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral black mineral containing iridium and tellurium.


shubnikovite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic light blue mineral containing arsenic, calcium, chlorine, copper, hydrogen, and oxygen.


shuiskite

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


sibirskite

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


sicherite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal dark gray mineral containing antimony, arsenic, silver, sulfur, and thallium.


sicklerite

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


sidorenkite

After Alexander V. Sidorenko, Russian mineralogist, + -ite

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


sidpietersite

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


sidwillite

Named after American mineralogist Sidney Arthur Williams (1933–2006), who played a prolific part in western United States mineralogy, + -ite.

named-after

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


sieleckiite

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


sigloite

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


silhydrite

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


silinaite

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


silvialite

Named after the daughter of Austrian mineralogist Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg (1836-1927), Silvia Hillebrand, + -lite.

named-after

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


simferite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic dark red mineral containing iron, lithium, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.


simmonsite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic pale buff cream mineral containing aluminum, fluorine, lithium, and sodium.


simonite

Simonite (TlHgAs₃S₆), found in Allchar, Macedonia, Yugoslavia, named in 1982 for Simon Engel, son of Peter Engel (b. 1942), a Swiss crystallographer, + -ite

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


simplotite

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


simpsonite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, and tantalum.


sinhalite

Named for the type locality in Sanskrit सिंहल (siṃhala, “Sri Lanka”) + -ite.

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


sinkankasite

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


sinnerite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pedial steel gray mineral containing arsenic, copper, and sulfur.


sinoite

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


sitinakite

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


skaergaardite

Named after the Skaergaard intrusion in Greenland, possibly from Danish skærgård (or the older spelling Skærgaard), see “skærgård” in Den Danske Ordbog.
? + -ite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing copper, gold, iron, lead, palladium, platinum, tellurium, tin, and zinc.


skinnerite

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


skippenite

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


sklodowskite

From Polish Skłodowska (“maiden name of Marie Curie”) + -ite.

uder

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


slavikite

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


slawsonite

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


smirnite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing bismuth, oxygen, and tellurium.


smolianinovite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing aluminum, arsenic, calcium, cobalt, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, nickel, and oxygen.


smythite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral pinkish cream mineral containing iron, nickel, and sulfur.


sobolevite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pedial brown mineral containing calcium, fluorine, iron, magnesium, manganese, niobium, oxygen, phosphorus, silicon, sodium, and titanium.


sobolevskite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal steel gray mineral containing bismuth and palladium.


soddyite

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


sonoraite

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


sorosite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal pinkish tin white mineral containing antimony, copper, and tin.


spadaite

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


spiroffite

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


stenonite

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


sternbergite

From Sternberg + -ite, after Count Kaspar Sternberg of Prague.

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


stevensite

Stevens + -ite. Named for Edwin Augustus Stevens.

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


stronalsite

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


suessite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral gray white mineral containing iron, nickel, and silicon.


sulphohalite

For its composition of sulphur and halogens.

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing chlorine, fluorine, oxygen, sodium, and sulfur.


sundiusite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic sulfate chloride mineral with the chemical formula Pb₁₀(SO₄)O₈Cl₂.


suolunite

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


tainiolite

From Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía, “ribbon”) and λίθος (líthos, “stone”), because of its tabular crystal habit.

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


talmessite

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


tamarugite

From Tamarugal + -ite, after Tamarugal Province in Chile.

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


taramellite

Named after Italian professor of geology at University of Pavia, Torquato Taramelli (1845–1922), + -ite.

named-after

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


taramite

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


taranakite

Taranaki + -ite, from its original discovery on the Sugar Loaf Islands, off the coast of Taranaki, New Zealand.

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


tarbuttite

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


tarkianite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral black mineral containing copper, iron, molybdenum, rhenium, and sulfur.


tatarskite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic sulfate chloride mineral with the chemical formula Ca₆Mg₂(SO₄)₂(CO₃)₂(OH)₄Cl₄ · 7H₂O.


tatyanaite

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


tedhadleyite

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


teineite

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


tellurantimony

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


telluronevskite

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


ternovite

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


terskite

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


testibiopalladite

(mineralogy) An isometric-tetartoidal mineral containing antimony, palladium, and tellurium.


tetrawickmanite

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


thadeuite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal yellow orange mineral containing calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.


thalcusite

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


thalfenisite

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


theisite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing antimony, arsenic, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and zinc.


theophrastite

The name is for Theophrastus, the first Greek mineralogist, 373/372-288/287 B.C., + -ite. The new mineral and the name were approved by the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names.

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


thometzekite

Named after Wilhelm Thometzek, Director of Mining at Tsumcor Mine, where the mineral was discovered.
Thometzek + -ite

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


thorikosite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal light yellow mineral containing antimony, arsenic, chlorine, hydrogen, lead, and oxygen.


thornasite

thorium + Na (“symbol for sodium”) + Si (“symbol for silicon”) + -ite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and thorium.


tienshanite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dipyramidal pistachio green mineral containing barium, boron, manganese, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and titanium.


tiettaite

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


tinaksite

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


tinticite

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


tintinaite

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


tinzenite

Named after its discovery locality: Alpe Parsettens, near Tinzen, Grisons, Switzerland.
Tinzen + -ite

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


tiragalloite

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


tisinalite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral yellow orange mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and titanium.


tivanite

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


tobermorite

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


tochilinite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic bronze black mineral containing hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and sulfur.


tolovkite

(mineralogy) An isometric-tetartoidal steel gray mineral containing antimony, iridium, and sulfur.


tomichite

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


tongbaite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal light brownish yellow mineral containing carbon and chromium.


torreyite

From Torrey + -ite after John Torrey (1796-1873), an American naturalist who made an early study of minerals in Franklin, New Jersey, USA.

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


tosudite

Named for Toshio Sudo, a professor of mineralogy, with suffix -ite.

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


tounkite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-trapezohedral mineral with the chemical formula (Na,Ca,K)₈(Al₆Si₆O₂₄)(SO₄)₂Cl · H₂O.


toyohaite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal gray mineral containing iron, silver, sulfur, and tin.


traskite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-ditrigonal dipyramidal brownish red mineral containing aluminum, barium, calcium, chlorine, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, strontium, and titanium.


trattnerite

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


triangulite

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


trikalsilite

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


trimerite

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


tuhualite

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


tunellite

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


tunisite

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


medjidite

(obsolete, mineralogy) A mineral that is a double sulfate of lime and uranium.


zirsilite

(mineralogy) A brittle cream-coloured complex mineral.


ellestadite

en-noun

ellestadite (usually uncountable, plural ellestadites)

From Ellestad + -ite, after Reuben B. Ellestad, an American chemist.

(mineralogy) A mineral found in metamorphosed limestone.


cabalzarite

Named by J. Brugger et al. in 2000 in honour of Walter Cabalzar (1919-2007), amateur mineralogist who discovered grischunite and geigerite.
Cabalzar + -ite

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


cadmoindite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing cadmium, germanium, indium, iron, sulfur, and zinc.


cafarsite

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and titanium.


cahnite

cahnite (countable and uncountable, plural cahnites)

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-disphenoidal mineral containing arsenic, boron, calcium, hydrogen, and oxygen.


calciborite

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


carletonite

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


carrollite

Named for type locality Carroll County, Maryland, + -ite.

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


cavansite

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


cervantite

From Cervantes (locality in Spain) + -ite.

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


cesbronite

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


clinoclase

clinoclase (countable and uncountable, plural clinoclases)

(mineralogy) A mineral composed of a basic copper arsenate


clinohedrite

clinohedrite (countable and uncountable, plural clinohedrites)

From Ancient Greek κλῑ́νω (klī́nō, “to incline”) + ἕδρᾱ (hédrā, “face”) + -ite, for the inclined facial character of the crystal morphology.

der

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic mineral that is a mixed silicate of calcium and zinc


clinohumite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral composed of a mixed iron and magnesium silicate / fluoride


cohenite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal yellowish white mineral containing carbon, cobalt, iron, and nickel.


combeite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-trapezohedral colorless mineral containing calcium, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


corderoite

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


creedite

From Creede + -ite, after Creede, Colorado.

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


cronstedtite

Named in honor of Axel Fredrik Cronstedt + -ite.

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


crookesite

From Crookes + -ite, named after British chemist and physicist Sir William Crookes.

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-disphenoidal mineral containing copper, selenium, silver, and thallium.


eosphorite

en-noun

eosphorite (usually uncountable, plural eosphorites)

From Ancient Greek Ἠώς (Ēṓs, “dawn”) + -φόρος (-phóros, “bearing”) + -ite, in reference to the pink colour of the mineral.

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


fabianite

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


ferberite

ferberite (countable and uncountable, plural ferberites)

Named after German mineralogist Moritz Rudolph Ferber + -ite.

named-after

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


ferroselite

For its composition of iron (ferrum (“iron”)) selenide, + -ite.

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


ferrosilite

For its composition, a silicate of iron (ferrum (“iron”)) + -ite.

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


fluorcaphite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-pyramidal mineral containing calcium, cerium, fluorine, oxygen, phosphorus, sodium, and strontium.


fornacite

From Latin fornāx, fornāc- (“furnace”) -ite, named in 1915 after Lucien Lewis Forneau (whose surname resembles French fourneau (“stove”), which, like fornāx, is ultimately from Latin furnus (“oven”)).

(mineralogy) A rare monoclinic-prismatic lead copper chromate arsenate hydroxide mineral, which is generally green to yellow and translucent to transparent, and has a Mohs hardness of 2.3, a specific gravity of 6.27, and a Strunz classification of 7.FC.10.


franckeite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing antimony, iron, lead, sulfur, and tin.


franklinite

en-noun

franklinite (countable and uncountable, plural franklinites)

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


geigerite

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


geocronite

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


germanite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral pinkish gray mineral containing copper, germanium, iron, and sulfur.


glucine

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


goslarite

goslarite (countable and uncountable, plural goslarites)

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


graftonite

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


gratonite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing arsenic, lead, and sulfur.


halloysite

halloysite (countable and uncountable, plural halloysites)

From Belgian geologist Omalius d'Halloy + -ite.

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


halotrichite

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


hanksite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dipyramidal mineral containing carbon, chlorine, oxygen, potassium, sodium, and sulfur.


hellyerite

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


hemimorphite

hemimorphite (countable and uncountable, plural hemimorphites)

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


hercynite

hercynite (countable and uncountable, plural hercynites)

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


herderite

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


hoelite

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


homilite

From homi- + -lite, with homi- being an alteration of homo-. From Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “same, together”) and λίθος (líthos, “stone”), because of its association with the minerals "erdmannite" and meliphanite.

uder

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


hopeite

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


humite

en-noun

humite (countable and uncountable, plural humites)

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


kalininite

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


kalinite

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


kankite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic yellow green mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, iron, and oxygen.


karpatite

Named after Carpathian mountains + -ite ; later called carpathite

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


keilite

Named after German-American professor at University of Hawaii in Honolulu, Klaus Keil, + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral gray mineral containing calcium, chromium, iron, magnesium, manganese, sulfur, and zinc.


kermesite

en-noun

kermesite (usually uncountable, plural kermesites)

From kermes + -ite.
Named after the dye kermes, and named thus, owing to the grainy reddish hue that the mineral often has. The name dates from 1832.

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


kinoite

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


kremersite

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


krennerite

From Krenner + -ite, after mineralogist Joseph Krenner who discovered it.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal creamy white mineral containing gold and tellurium.


lautarite

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


legrandite

From Legrand + -ite; named after Belgian mining engineer and mineral collector Louis C.A. Legrand (1861–1920), who collected the first specimen.

named-after

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


linarite

From Linares + -ite, named after Linares, Jaén, Andalusia, Spain, the place it was discovered.

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

Andalusia
Linares, Jaén
Province of Jaén (Spain)


livingstonite

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