zoubekite

From Zoubek + -ite, after Vladimír Zoubek.

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


zircosulfate

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


zeophyllite

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


zodacite

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


rosenbergite

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

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


nadorite

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

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


samsonite

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

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


evenkite

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

(mineralogy) A rare hydrocarbon mineral.


wodginite

en-noun

wodginite (countable and uncountable, plural wodginites)

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


cornwallite

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

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


tuperssuatsiaite

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


quadridavyne

(mineralogy) A mineral found in volcanic ash.


o'danielite

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

named-after

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


yvonite

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


ferrokinoshitalite

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


taseqite

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


iraqite

(mineralogy) A greenish-yellow radioactive mineral.


mcbirneyite

From McBirney + -ite, after Alexander Robert McBirney.

(mineralogy) A copper-oxygen-vanadium mineral.


mccrillisite

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


zellerite

(mineralogy) A soft mineral containing calcium and uranium.


welshite

(mineralogy) A complex mineral containing magnesium and antimony.


tsnigriite

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


saponite

en-noun

saponite (countable and uncountable, plural saponites)

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

coin

(mineralogy) A trioctahedral smectite mineral.


ettringite

en-noun

ettringite (countable and uncountable, plural ettringites)

(mineralogy) A trigonal hydrous calcium aluminium sulfate mineral.


hawleyite

From Hawley + -ite, after James Edwin Hawley.

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


hedenbergite

hedenbergite (countable and uncountable, plural hedenbergites)

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

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


hauerite

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

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


hapkeite

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

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


canfieldite

canfieldite (usually uncountable, plural canfieldites)

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

(mineralogy) A rare silver tin sulfide mineral.


argyrodite

argyrodite (countable and uncountable, plural argyrodites)

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


struvite

struvite (countable and uncountable, plural struvites)

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

named-after

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


melonite

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

(mineralogy) A nickel telluride mineral.


meionite

en-noun

meionite (countable and uncountable, plural meionites)

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

af

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


mendozite

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


meneghinite

en-noun

meneghinite (countable and uncountable, plural meneghinites)

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

(mineralogy) A blackish-grey orthorhombic sulfosalt mineral.


miargyrite

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

(mineralogy) A sulfide of silver and antimony.


sanbornite

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

(mineralogy) A rare orthorhombic barium phyllosilicate mineral.


vlodavetsite

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


zapatalite

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

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


zairite

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


zemannite

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


zincrosasite

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


zincroselite

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


zirsinalite

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


yushkinite

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

named-after

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


zirklerite

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


zincostaurolite

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


zincovoltaite

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


zincospiroffite

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


yuanjiangite

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


zincgartrellite

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


zincaluminite

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


yugawaralite

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


yuanfuliite

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


yoshiokaite

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


yoshimuraite

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


yofortierite

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


yoderite

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


yixunite

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


yingjiangite

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


yimengite

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


yedlinite

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


yecoraite

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


yeatmanite

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


yavapaiite

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


yarrowite

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


yakhontovite

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


yagiite

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


yanomamite

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


yaroslavite

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


yafsoanite

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


wycheproofite

After Wycheproof, northwestern Victoria, Australia, + -ite

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


woodwardite

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


wakabayashilite

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


wheatleyite

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

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


woodallite

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


wallkilldellite

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


wyllieite

After Peter John Wyllie, American geologist, + -ite

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


westerveldite

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


vistepite

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


voglite

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


vinogradovite

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


vochtenite

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


wicksite

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


wilcoxite

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

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


vladimirite

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


willemseite

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


vismirnovite

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


vlasovite

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

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


wilhelmvierlingite

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


volynskite

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


virgilite

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


voltaite

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


wickenburgite

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


wattevillite

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


waylandite

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


norrishite

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


osarsite

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


palladoarsenide

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


oenite

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


natalyite

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


nanpingite

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


nefedovite

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


nisbite

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


neltnerite

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


altisite

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

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


bearsite

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

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


anthonyite

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

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


anorthominasragrite

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

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


baricite

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


beaverite

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

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


baghdadite

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


avogadrite

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


aminoffite

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

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


apjohnite

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

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


bayleyite

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


baylissite

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


behoite

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


arsenogorceixite

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


quenselite

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

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


queitite

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


serendibite

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


sarcolite

en-noun

sarcolite (usually uncountable, plural sarcolites)

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

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


springcreekite

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

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


srilankite

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


stanleyite

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

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


stottite

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


szaibelyite

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

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


szenicsite

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


szymanskiite

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

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


tavorite

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


taimyrite

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


tengchongite

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


telargpalite

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

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


threadgoldite

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

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


tinsleyite

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


tugarinovite

After Aleksei Ivanovich Tugarinov, Russian geologist, + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic violet brown mineral containing molybdenum and oxygen.


uralolite

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


tsumgallite

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


tsumcorite

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


tsumoite

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


tooeleite

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


trabzonite

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


uranpyrochlore

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


tilleyite

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


thorutite

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


tilasite

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


thorogummite

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


telluropalladinite

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


tuliokite

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


tiptopite

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


terranovaite

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


turkestanite

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


ternesite

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


tegengrenite

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


uranotungstite

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


uvanite

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


utahite

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


ushkovite

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


turanite

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


telyushenkoite

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


symplesite

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

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


tellurohauchecornite

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


vikingite

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


walfordite

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


wilkinsonite

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


vimsite

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


villyaellenite

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


vergasovaite

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


wilhelmramsayite

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


wroewolfeite

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


vanalite

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


tyretskite

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


umbozerite

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

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


umohoite

umohoite (usually uncountable, plural umohoites)

From U (“uranium”) + Mo (“molybdenum”) + H (“hydrogen”) + O (“oxygen”) -ite.

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


vyacheslavite

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

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


varulite

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


vanuralite

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


vanthoffite

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

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

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

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

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

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


uranosilite

For its composition, a (URAN)yl (SIL)icate, + -ite.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal yellowish white mineral containing oxygen, silicon, and uranium.


tvedalite

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


tuzlaite

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


ungemachite

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


tsaregorodtsevite

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


velikite

After A. C. Velikyi, mineralogist, + -ite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-scalenohedral mineral containing copper, mercury, sulfur, and tin.


tristramite

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


urancalcarite

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


truscottite

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

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


trilithionite

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


trogtalite

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


trigonite

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


vandendriesscheite

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


vanmeersscheite

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


vandenbrandeite

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


vanoxite

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


uranopolycrase

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


ursilite

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


trolleite

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


tschernichite

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


uytenbogaardtite

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


sadanagaite

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

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


sclarite

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


senegalite

From Senegal + -ite, from the type locality.

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


schneebergite

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


satpaevite

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


althausite

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

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


bazirite

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


carbokentbrooksite

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


cattiite

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

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


cesanite

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


collinsite

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


edgarbaileyite

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


cuprosklodowskite

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


cuprospinel

cuprospinel (usually uncountable, plural cuprospinels)

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


cuprostibite

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


dietzeite

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

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


quadratite

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


ixiolite

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

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


izoklakeite

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


johannsenite

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


kinichilite

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

named-after

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


kolovratite

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

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


ktenasite

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


jixianite

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


johnbaumite

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


kalipyrochlore

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


joesmithite

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


jeromite

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


kamchatkite

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


kryzhanovskite

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


kupcikite

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


kornelite

Borrowed from Hungarian kornelit, after its discoverer Kornel Hlavacsek.

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


kupletskite

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

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


korzhinskite

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


khanneshite

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


keyite

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


kanonerovite

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


kvanefjeldite

From Kvanefjeld + -ite. From Danish Kvanefjeld, a compound of kvan (“garden angelica”) + -e- + fjeld (“mountain”). Its namesake is the locality of the mineral.

compound

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


kanonaite

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


kampfite

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


kuranakhite

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


kurchatovite

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


kentbrooksite

Named for geologist C. Kent Brooks + -ite

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


johninnesite

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


kuznetsovite

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


klyuchevskite

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


kasolite

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

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


johntomaite

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


jeremejevite

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

jeremeievite (alternative)
jeremejewite (alternative)
yeremeyevite (alternative)
jeremejeffite (alternative)
eremeevite (alternative)
eremeyevite (alternative)

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


johachidolite

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

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


jinshajiangite

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


khinite

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

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


jolliffeite

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


jonesite

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


smithite

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


liskeardite

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


manandonite

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


mammothite

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


mandarinoite

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


jianshuiite

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


johillerite

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


lamprophyllite

en-noun

lamprophyllite (countable and uncountable, plural lamprophyllites)

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

uder

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


landesite

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


landauite

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


kribergite

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


kristiansenite

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


koenenite

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


kawazulite

Named for type locality Kawazu Mine (in Shizuoka, Japan) + -lite.

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


kieftite

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


iwakiite

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


keckite

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


kashinite

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


laueite

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


kegelite

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

named-after

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


kazakhstanite

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

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


jeppeite

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

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


kornite

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


laurionite

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


laurelite

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

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


lawsonbauerite

Named for chemist Lawson H. Bauer + -ite.

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


makovickyite

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


lazarenkoite

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

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


liebauite

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


lavrentievite

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


lawrencite

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


mallestigite

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


liebenbergite

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


lindgrenite

en-noun

lindgrenite (usually uncountable, plural lindgrenites)

From Lindgren (Swedish surname) + -ite. Named after Swedish-American economic geologist Waldemar Lindgren (1860–1939).

named-after

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

lindgrenita

mineral containing copper, hydrogen, molybdenum and oxygen


lourenswalsite

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


manganbabingtonite

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


manganbelyankinite

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


magnesiodumortierite

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


magnesiokatophorite

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


magnesiosadanagaite

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


magnesiostaurolite

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


mcconnellite

Named after Canadian director of the British Guyana Geological Survey, Dr. Richard Bradford McConnell (1903–1986), + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral dark red mineral containing chromium, copper, and oxygen.


mcgillite

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

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


mcguinnessite

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


mckinstryite

From McKinstry + -ite, after US geologist Hugh McKinstry.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal light grayish white mineral containing copper, silver, and sulfur.


mcgovernite

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

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


mcnearite

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


mcauslanite

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


mcalpineite

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

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


mcallisterite

Named after geologist James Franklin McAllister + -ite

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


mathewrogersite

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


metavandendriesscheite

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


metavanmeersscheite

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


metatyuyamunite

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


mpororoite

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


nickellotharmeyerite

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


paramendozavilite

From para- + mendozavilite, for its close relation to that mineral.

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


paracoquimbite

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


pararammelsbergite

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


penfieldite

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

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


penkvilksite

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


orthominasragrite

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


phaunouxite

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


piypite

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

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


potassicsadanagaite

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


poldervaartite

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


petscheckite

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


phosphoellenbergerite

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


potassicpargasite

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


potassicleakeite

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


parasibirskite

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


parabariomicrolite

From Ancient Greek παρά (pará, “near”) + bariomicrolite, for being close in composition to that mineral. This name was discredited in 2016 in favor of hydrokenomicrolite-3R.

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


proudite

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


parasymplesite

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


penobsquisite

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


pellyite

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


pyroxmangite

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


radhakrishnaite

Named after Dr. Bangalore Puttaiya Radhakrishna or BPR (1918-2012), director of Mysore Geological Department, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A tetragonal rose-brown mineral containing chlorine, lead, sulfur, and tellurium.


phosphovanadylite

For its composition, a phosphorus-bearing mineral containing a vanadyl anion base, + -ite.

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral light greenish blue mineral containing aluminum, barium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, and vanadium.


preobrazhenskite

From Russian Преображенский (Preobraženskij) + -ite. Named after the surname of the Soviet researcher of salt deposits P. I. Preobrazhenskyi.

noncog

Преображенский

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


phosphogartrellite

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


phosphowalpurgite

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


sphaerobertrandite

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


tetrarooseveltite

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


thorbastnasite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-ditrigonal dipyramidal brown mineral containing calcium, carbon, cerium, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen, and thorium.


thoreaulite

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


veszelyite

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


tischendorfite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic beige mineral containing lead, mercury, palladium, selenium, and silver.


strontiowhitlockite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal white mineral containing barium, calcium, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, phosphorus, and strontium.


swedenborgite

From Swedenborg + -ite. Named after Swedish pluralistic-Christian theologian, scientist, philosopher and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772).

named-after

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal pyramidal mineral containing antimony, beryllium, oxygen, and sodium.


sweetite

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


thorosteenstrupine

en-noun

thorosteenstrupine (usually uncountable, plural thorosteenstrupines)

(mineralogy) An amorphous mineral containing calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and thorium.


voggite

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


vigezzite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, cerium, niobium, oxygen, tantalum, and titanium.


svyazhinite

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


tsugaruite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic silvery lead gray mineral containing arsenic, lead, and sulfur.


villamaninite

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal iron black mineral containing cobalt, copper, iron, nickel, and sulfur.


sveite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic white mineral containing aluminum, chlorine, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and potassium.


svyatoslavite

Святослав + -ite

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


sverigeite

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


svabite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dipyramidal mineral containing arsenic, calcium, fluorine, and oxygen.


susannite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and sulfur.


suzukiite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal light green mineral containing barium, oxygen, silicon, and vanadium.


vonbezingite

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


watkinsonite

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


vysotskite

After N. K. Vysotskii, Soviet geologist, + -ite

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


vyalsovite

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


vuorelainenite

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


tetraferroplatinum

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal white mineral containing iron and platinum.


tertschite

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


synadelphite

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


wallisite

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


strontiojoaquinite

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


djerfisherite

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


akrochordite

From Ancient Greek ἀκροχορδών (akrokhordṓn, “wart”) + -ite.

der

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


aktashite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-pyramidal grayish black mineral containing arsenic, copper, mercury, and sulfur.


alacranite

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


albrechtschraufite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal yellow green mineral containing calcium, carbon, fluorine, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and uranium.


aldermanite

From Alderman + -ite, after mineralogist Arthur Richard Alderman.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic colorless mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and phosphorus.


bobfergusonite

Named for Professor Robert B. Ferguson, a noted mineralogist, + -ite.

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


allargentum

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


allactite

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


allabogdanite

Named for Russian geologist Alla Bogdanova + -ite.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal light straw yellow mineral containing cobalt, iron, nickel, and phosphorus.


aleksite

From Russian Алексеев (Aleksejev) + -ite, after the mine where it was found.

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


panunzite

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


leadamalgam

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


jarlite

Named after Danish engineer Carl Frederik Jarl (1872–1951), + -ite.

named-after

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


jasmundite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-scalenohedral mineral containing calcium, oxygen, silicon, and sulfur.


suanite

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


panasqueiraite

Panasqueira in Portugal, where it can be found, + -ite

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


strunzite

Named after Karl Hugo Strunz (1910-2006), a German mineralogist.
Strunz + -ite

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


surite

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


alumopharmacosiderite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral white mineral containing aluminum, arsenic, hydrogen, oxygen, and potassium.


anilite

en-noun

anilite (usually uncountable, plural anilites)

Named after type locality Ani mine in Akita (Japan) + -lite.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal bluish gray mineral containing copper and sulfur.


roselite

Named after German mineralogist Gustav Rose (1798–1873), + -lite.

named-after

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


reidite

Named in 2002 by Billy P. Glass, Shaobin Liu and Peter B. Leavens in honour of Alan F. Reid, who first produced the phase in high-pressure laboratory experiments in 1969.
Reid + -ite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-dipyramidal white mineral containing oxygen, silicon, and zirconium.


raite

Named after the international group of scientists of the 1969-1970 voyage of the papyrus ship, Ra
Ra + -ite

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


paxite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic light grayish white mineral containing arsenic and copper.


pekoite

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


nealite

Named after American mineralogist Leo Neal Yedlin (1908–1977), + -ite.

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


nickelschneebergite

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


neyite

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


mundite

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


iridarsenite

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


idaite

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


ferrokentbrooksite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, chlorine, fluorine, hafnium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, niobium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, strontium, tantalum, titanium, yttrium, and zirconium, as well as lanthanum, cerium, praeseodymium, neodymium, and samarium.


manganokhomyakovite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing calcium, chlorine, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, silicon, sodium, strontium, tungsten, and zirconium.


okayamalite

Named for type locality Okayama Prefecture (in Japan) + -lite.

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-scalenohedral creamy white mineral containing boron, calcium, oxygen, and silicon.


paraguanajuatite

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


atokite

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


alumoklyuchevskite

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


althupite

From aluminum + thorium + uranium + phosphorus + -ite.

af

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


amakinite

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


alvanite

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


alumotungstite

(mineralogy) An isometric greenish yellow mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.


ammonioalunite

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


arsenbrackebuschite

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


arsenohauchecornite

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


babefphite

From the chemical symbols of the elements that compose it: Ba (“barium”), Be (“beryllium”), F (“fluorine”), P (“phosphorous”) + -ite.

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal white mineral containing barium, beryllium, fluorine, oxygen, and phosphorus.


ammoniojarosite

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


almarudite

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


aplowite

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


anyuiite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing antimony, gold, and lead.


argentopentlandite

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


ammonioleucite

en-noun

ammonioleucite (usually uncountable, plural ammonioleucites)

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


antimonpearceite

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


antarcticite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-trapezohedral colorless mineral containing calcium, chlorine, hydrogen, and oxygen.


ansermetite

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


asbolane

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

asbolaani

a hexagonal mineral containing calcium, cobalt, hydrogen, manganese, nickel, and oxygen


aschamalmite

Named after the type locality: Ascham Alp, Salzburg, Austria
Ascham Alp + m + -ite

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


ammonioborite

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


andremeyerite

From Andre Meyer + -ite, named for the geologist who first collected it.

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


wupatkiite

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


wilhelmkleinite

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


trechmannite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral scarlet red mineral containing arsenic, silver, and sulfur.


tranquillityite

From tranquillity + -ite, after the Sea of Tranquillity, a basin on the Moon where the mineral was first found.

(mineralogy) A hexagonal dark red mineral containing iron, oxygen, silicon, titanium, yttrium, and zirconium.


ungarettiite

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


uralborite

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


trippkeite

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


tulameenite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal white mineral containing copper, iron, and platinum.


tumchaite

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


turtmannite

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


twinnite

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


tungstibite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal mineral containing antimony, oxygen, and tungsten.


tungusite

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


uranmicrolite

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


trembathite

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


tripuhyite

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


vanadomalayaite

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


valleriite

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


uzonite

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


urvantsevite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal steel gray mineral containing bismuth, lead, and palladium.


vanadiocarpholite

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

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

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


vanadiumdravite

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


uvite

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


verplanckite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal mineral containing barium, chlorine, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and titanium.


wegscheiderite

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


weeksite

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


volkovskite

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


volkonskoite

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


vonsenite

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


vajdakite

From Vajdak + -ite after Josef Vajdak (1930-), for his significant contribution in the study of minerals in the Jachymov ore district (in northwestern Bohemia, Czechia).

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


viaeneite

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


vuonnemite

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


wairakite

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


wairauite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral steel gray mineral containing cobalt and iron.


vuagnatite

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


walthierite

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


verbeekite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic black mineral containing palladium and selenium.


vihorlatite

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


vinciennite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-trapezohedral orange mineral containing antimony, arsenic, copper, iron, sulfur, and tin.


wardsmithite

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


walentaite

After Kurt Walenta, German mineralogist, + -ite.

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


wadeite

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


warikahnite

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


wawayandaite

From Wawayanda + -ite, discovered in a mine in Sussex County, New Jersey.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing beryllium, boron, calcium, chlorine, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


weberite

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


weinebeneite

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


walstromite

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


weissbergite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pedial steel gray mineral containing antimony, sulfur, and thallium.


wendwilsonite

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


usovite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing aluminum, barium, calcium, fluorine, and magnesium.


ustarasite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic pure white mineral containing antimony, bismuth, lead, and sulfur.


varennesite

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


vashegyite

From Hungarian Vashegy (literally “iron mountain”) (the old Hungarian name for the village of Železník, Slovakia where the mineral was discovered) + -ite.

der

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


wermlandite

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


watanabeite

Named for Takeo Watanabe, a Japanese mineralogist.
Watanabe + -ite

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


watatsumiite

海神 (わたつみ watatsumi, sea god in Shinto mythology) + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic yellow green mineral containing barium, iron, lithium, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, titanium, and vanadium.


wherryite

From Wherry + -ite, named for Edgar T. Wherry, American mineralogist and plant ecologist.

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


whitmoreite

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


wickmanite

After Franz-Erik Wickman, Swedish mineralogist, + -ite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and tin.


wenkite

From Wenk + -ite, named after Swiss geologist Eduard Wenk.

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-ditrigonal dipyramidal light gray mineral containing aluminum, barium, calcium, chlorine, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and sulfur.


willhendersonite

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


winchite

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


wiserite

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


widenmannite

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


wooldridgeite

From Wooldridge + -ite, after its discoverer James Wooldridge.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal greenish blue mineral containing calcium, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.


woodruffite

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


woodhouseite

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


wonesite

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


wolfeite

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


wightmanite

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


winstanleyite

From Winstanley + -ite, named after Betty Jo Winstanley (1934-), amateur mineralogist, who found the first specimen.

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


wittite

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


wittichenite

From Wittichen + -ite, after an area in Baden of Germany.

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


weibullite

After Mats Weibull, Swedish mineralogist, + -ite

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


willyamite

(mineralogy) An isometric-tetartoidal mineral containing antimony, cobalt, nickel, and sulfur.


wilkmanite

Wanold Wrydon Wilkman, a geologist with the Geological Survey of Finland + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic grayish yellow mineral containing nickel and selenium.


wattersite

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


weishanite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal light yellow mineral containing gold, mercury, and silver.


werdingite

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


wesselsite

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


uranospathite

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


uramphite

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


urusovite

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


uranocircite

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


stumpflite

Named after Austrian professor of mineralogy Eugen Friedrich Stumpfl (1931–2004), + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal silver white mineral containing antimony, bismuth, and platinum.


sudovikovite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral white mineral containing platinum and selenium.


sturmanite

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


sudburyite

From Sudbury + -ite, after Sudbury District, Ontario.

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal silver gray mineral containing antimony, nickel, and palladium.


sudoite

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

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


studenitsite

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


strontiochevkinite

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


strontiodresserite

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


strontioginorite

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


strontioborite

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


strontiomelane

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


theoparacelsite

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


sursassite

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


swaknoite

From SWAKNO (acronym of Suid Wes Africa Karst Navorsing Organisasie (Afrikaans for "South West Africa Karst Exploration Organisation"), a caving association in Namibia) + -ite.

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


surinamite

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


sulphotsumoite

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


symesite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal pink mineral with the chemical formula Pb₁₀(SO₄)O₇Cl₄ · H₂O.


tlalocite

From Tlaloc, Mexica god of rain, + -ite, due to its high water content.

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


tlapallite

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


tyrrellite

Named after Canadian geologist Joseph Burr Tyrrell (1858–1957), + -ite.

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


tychite

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


takeuchiite

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


tikhonenkovite

After Igor Tikhonenkov, Russian mineralogist, + -ite

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


teschemacherite

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


barytolamprophyllite

From its composition of barium and its relation to lamprophyllite.

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


alumohydrocalcite

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


basaluminite

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


kuzminite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing bromine, chlorine, and mercury.


kuzelite

Named after German professor at University of Erlangen, Germany, Dr. Hans Jürgen Kuzel (1932–1997), + -ite.

named-after

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


lacroixite

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


lishizhenite

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


lanmuchangite

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and thallium.


langite

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


kurumsakite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic mineral containing aluminum, copper, hydrogen, nickel, oxygen, silicon, vanadium, and zinc.


kusachiite

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


kukisvumite

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


krettnichite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic reddish brown mineral containing arsenic, cobalt, hydrogen, iron, lead, manganese, oxygen, strontium, and vanadium.


kullerudite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal lead gray mineral containing nickel and selenium.


macquartite

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


kurgantaite

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


kuramite

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


lindqvistite

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


krupkaite

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


larderellite

Named after French engineer François Jacques de Larderell (1790–1858), known in Italy as Francesco Giacomo de Larderel, who ran business in the Tuscan borax industry.

(mineralogy) A dimorph of ammonioborate. A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing boron, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen.


kittatinnyite

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal bright yellow mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


kitkaite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral yellow gray mineral containing nickel, selenium, and tellurium.


kirkiite

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


kladnoite

From the Kladno District (Czech Republic) + -ite.

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


kleemanite

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


klebelsbergite

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


kleinite

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


kipushite

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


koktaite

From Kokta + -ite, after Jaroslav Kokta, a Czech chemist.

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


koashvite

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


kingsmountite

Kings Mount(ain) + -ite, after the type locality, Kings Mountain, North Carolina.

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


kolfanite

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


korshunovskite

(mineralogy) A triclinic colorless mineral containing chlorine, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.


kosmochlor

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


kolwezite

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


korobitsynite

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


ludjibaite

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


krauskopfite

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


franklinfurnaceite

From Franklin + furnace + -ite, after Franklin Furnace in New Jersey, USA.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal dark brown mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and zinc.


frankdicksonite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral colorless mineral containing barium and fluorine.


franklinphilite

From Franklin + -philite; named for type locality Franklin, New Jersey, and the devotion of mineralogists to the Franklin area mineralogy.

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


fuenzalidaite

Named by Judith A. Konnert et al. in 1994 in honour of Humberto Fuenzalida Villegas (1904-1966), founder of the Chilean School of Geology within the University of Chile and the Geological Society of Chile
Fuenzalida + -ite

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


furutobeite

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


freedite

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


friedrichite

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


frolovite

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


galenobismutite

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


galileiite

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


gallobeudantite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, arsenic, gallium, hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, sulfur, and zinc.


gananite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral gray mineral containing bismuth and fluorine.


geikielite

en-noun

geikielite (countable and uncountable, plural geikielites)

Named after Scottish geologist Sir Archibald Geikie (1835–1924) + -lite.

named-after

The free energy remains negative throughout the whole temperature range, indicating that the association forstorite + ilmenite is thermodynamically more stable than foyalite + geikielite.

1948, Frank K. McIntosh, McHenry Mosier, Investigation of Wood Chromite Mine Area Lancaster County, PA, page 7:

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


geminite

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


greifensteinite

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


gaidonnayite

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


gainesite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal blue mineral containing beryllium, calcium, cesium, hydrogen, iron, lithium, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, and zirconium.


gruzdevite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-pyramidal grayish black mineral containing antimony, copper, mercury, and sulfur.


guanajuatite

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


grumiplucite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic grayish black mineral containing bismuth, mercury, and sulfur.


gaotaiite

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal steel black mineral containing iridium and tellurium.


gowerite

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


goyazite

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


gabrielsonite

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


gageite

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


gabrielite

Named after Swiss mineral photographer Walter Gabriel, + -ite.

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


frohbergite

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


furongite

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


goudeyite

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


gottlobite

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


gottardiite

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


gatehouseite

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


gamagarite

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


frondelite

Named after American mineralogist Clifford Frondel (1907–2002), + -ite.

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


giorgiosite

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


grechishchevite

Grechishev + -ite
Named after Oleg Konstantinovich Grechishev, soviet geologist

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


grattarolaite

From Grattarola + -ite, from Giuseppe Grattarola, an Italian mineralogist.

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


foggite

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


foitite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal bluish black mineral composed of a basic, hydrated aluminate / borate / silicate of iron and sodium


foordite

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


fontanite

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


filipstadite

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


fischesserite

(mineralogy) An isometric-gyroidal silver white mineral containing gold, selenium, and silver.


flagstaffite

From Flagstaff + -ite, named after Flagstaff, Arizona, a city near the locality of discovery.

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


flinkite

en-noun

flinkite (countable and uncountable, plural flinkites)

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


fibroferrite

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


fluckite

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


erniggliite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral mineral containing arsenic, sulfur, thallium, and tin.


erdite

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


erlichmanite

Named for Jozef Erlichman, electron microprobe analyst at the NASA Ames Research Center.
Erlichman + -ite

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


ernienickelite

Named after Canadian-Australian mineralogist Ernest (Ernie) Henry Nickel (1925–2005), + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy) A trigonal reddish black mineral containing hydrogen, manganese, nickel, and oxygen.


ertixiite

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal mineral containing oxygen, silicon, and sodium.


emeleusite

From Emeleus + -ite, after Charles Henry Emeleus.

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


ericaite

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


eskimoite

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


erythrosiderite

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


esperanzaite

Named after the discovery locality: La Esperanza Mine, Durango, Mexico.
Esperanza + -ite

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


esseneite

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


englishite

From English + -ite, after George L. English.

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


elpasolite

en-noun

elpasolite (countable and uncountable, plural elpasolites)

Named for type locality El Paso County, Colorado, + -lite.

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


ericssonite

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


emmonsite

From Emmons + -ite, named after Samuel Franklin Emmons.

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


emilite

Named after sulfosalt specialist at University of Copenhagen Emil Makovicky, + -ite.

named-after

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


embreyite

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


endellite

en-noun

endellite (countable and uncountable, plural endellites)

Named after German geologist Kurt Endell who discovered the mineral with a team, + -ite.

named-after

(mineralogy, dated) A monoclinic-domatic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon. Discredited as the name of the mineral in 2006.


eveite

Named in 1967 by Paul B. Moore after the biblical character Eve, in comparison to the isostructural mineral adamite.
Eve + -ite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal apple green mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, manganese, and oxygen.


eveslogite

Named after the type locality: Mt. Eveslogchorr, Khibiny massif, Kola peninsula, Russia
Mt. Eveslogchorr + -ite

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, barium, calcium, chlorine, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, manganese, niobium, oxygen, potassium, rubidium, silicon, sodium, strontium, tantalum, titanium, and zirconium.


falcondoite

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


famatinite

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-scalenohedral pale brownish pink mineral containing antimony, copper, and sulfur.


fangite

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


farringtonite

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


faustite

Named by Richard Erd et al in honour of George Faust (1908 - 1985), mineralogist and petrologist of the U.S. Geological Survey and the describer of the minerals huntite, pecoraite and schoenfliesite.
Faust + -ite

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


ferronickelplatinum

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal silver white mineral containing iron, nickel, and platinum.


ezcurrite

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


eztlite

From Nahuatl eztli (“blood”), for the mineral's appearance, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic blood-red mineral with the chemical formula Pb²⁺₂Fe³⁺₃(Te⁴⁺ O₃)₃(SO₄)O₂Cl.


feklichevite

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


felbertalite

Named for type locality Felbertal region (in Salzburg, Austria) + -ite.

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


fettelite

Named after mineral collector M. Fettel, who observed the specimen in his collection, + -ite.

(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal grayish white mineral containing antimony, arsenic, copper, iron, lead, mercury, silver, sulfur, and thallium.


fetiasite

Fe (“iron”) + Ti (“titanium”) + As (“arsenic”) + -ite.

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


dadsonite

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


cuzticite

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


cyrilovite

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


cupromakovickyite

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


davyne

After Sir Humphrey Davy, English chemist, + -ine.

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