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Franklinphilite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution

Article - 7 May 2013

Franklinphilite is a triclinic mineral containing zinc, sodium, silicon, potassium, oxygen, manganese, magnesium, iron, hydrogen and aluminum. It was named after ‘Franklin’, its place of occurrence...

Ershovite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution

Article - 3 Jun 2014

Ershovite is a triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing titanium, sodium, silicon, potassium, oxygen, manganese, iron and hydrogen. It was named after Professor Vadim Victorovich Ershov of the Moscow...

Brianite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution

Article - 3 Jun 2014

Brianite is a phosphate mineral first identified in an iron meteorite. The mineral was named in honor of Brian Harold Mason, a New Zealandic-American meteoriticist, mineralogist and geochemist.

Natroxalate - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution

Article - 29 Aug 2013

Natroxalate is a monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing sodium, oxygen and carbon. It was first discovered from Mount Kukisvumchorr, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia in 1996. It was named after...

Perroudite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution

Article - 28 May 2014

Perroudite has an orthorhombic crystal system. It was first discovered in Cap-Garonne, Var, France in 1992. It was named for Pierre Perroud, Professor at Voltaire College, Geneva, Switzerland for his...

Rittmannite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution

Article - 28 May 2014

Rittmannite is a member of Whiteite group. It was first discovered in 1989 from Mangualde pegmatite, near Mesquitela, and the Bendada pegmatite, near Guarda, Portugal.

Wheatleyite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution

Article - 28 May 2014

Wheatleyite is a triclinic-pinacoidal blue mineral containing sodium, oxygen, hydrogen, copper and carbon. It was first observed in Wheatley mine, near Phoenixville, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, USA. It...

Swartzite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution

Article - 29 May 2014

Swartzite has a monoclinic crystal system. It was named after Charles Kephart Swartz, Professor of Geology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (USA).

Paradamite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution

Article - 3 Jun 2014

Paradamite is dimorphous with adamite and isostructural with tarbuttite. It was named from the Greek word, para which means ‘near’ indicating its dimorphous relation to adamite.

Surinamite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution

Article - 3 Jun 2014

Surinamite is a monoclinic blue green crystal that was first discovered in the Bakhuis Mountains. It is a member of sapphirine supergroup of minerals. It was named after Surinam where the mineral was...