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  • Scotlandite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution
    Article - 15 Aug 2013
    Scotlandite is a monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing sulfur, oxygen, and lead. The mineral was discovered in 1984 in the Susanna mines of the Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is named...
  • Priceite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution
    Article - 14 May 2014
    Priceite was first discovered in 1873 from Chetco, Curry County, Oregon, USA. It was named after the American metallurgist, Thomas Price, San Francisco metallurgist, who first analyzed the mineral.
  • Halite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution
    Article - 15 Aug 2013
    Halite is the mineral form of sodium chloride. It was named from the Greek word “halos”, meaning salt and “lithos”, meaning rock.
  • Ettringite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution
    Article - 21 Oct 2013
    Ettringite is a hydrous calcium aluminum sulfate mineral first described in 1874 from Ettringer Bellerberg, Ettringen, Mayen, Eifel, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. The mineral was named for its place of...
  • Aluminite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution
    Article - 12 May 2014
    Aluminite is a hydrous aluminum sulfate mineral first described in 1807 from Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The mineral was named for the presence of aluminum in its composition.
  • Hibschite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution
    Article - 24 May 2014
    Hibschite is a member of garnet group of minerals. It was first discovered in Marienberg, near Aussig, Bohemia of Czechoslovakia. The mineral was named after Professor Josef Emanuel Hibsch, German...
  • Colemanite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution
    Article - 3 Jun 2014
    Colemanite is a borate mineral that forms by alteration of ulexite and borax. It was first discovered in 1884 from Furnace Creek in Death Valley. The mineral was named after William Tell Coleman,...
  • Umohoite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution
    Article - 29 May 2014
    Umohoite having a triclinic crystal system was first discovered in Utah, USA. It was named for the composition uranyl, molybdate, hydrogen and oxygen.
  • Dolomite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution
    Article - 12 May 2014
    Dolomite is a carbonate mineral consisting of calcium magnesium carbonate. It was first described as the ‘stinking stone’ by Belsazar Hacquet, an Austrian naturalist. Later, Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu,...
  • Alunite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution
    Article - 4 Jun 2014
    Alunite is a sulfate mineral first discovered in Monti della Tolfa, Rome in the 15th century. It is rarely found in the massive material cavities as distinct crystals. It occurs as veins and...

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