Bukovskyite is an iron arsenate sulfate mineral that was discovered in 1967 near Kutna Hora, Czech Republic. It was named after the Czech chemist, Antonin Bukovsky, a professor of the secondary school at Kutna Hora, who first analyzed the mineral
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 after its place of discovery.
Antarctica is a frozen desert continent located south of the Antarctic Circle. It is mostly uninhabitable with a total land area of 14 million km2 of which only 280,000 km2 is ice-free.
By G.P. Thomas
19 Nov 2012
Arsenuranylite is an orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing uranium, oxygen, hydrogen, calcium and arsenic. The mineral was first discovered in Russia in 1958. It was named for arsenic and uranium in its composition and its relation to phosphuranylite.
Since ancient times, heat treatments have been used in the mining industry in a variety of ways.
By Reginald Davey
28 Feb 2020