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Mountainite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution

Mountainite is a transparent to translucent material named after Edgar Donald Mountain, Professor of Geology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

16 May 2013

Livingstonite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution

Livingstonite is a mineral comprising mercury, antimony and sulfur. It was named after the Scottish explorer and missionary David Livingston.

16 May 2013

Mozgovaite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution

Mozgovaite is an orthorhombic-dipyramidal silver gray mineral containing sulfur, selenium, lead and bismuth. The mineral was first found in La Fossa crater, Isle Vulcano, Aeolian Islands, Italy in 1998. It was named after the Russian mineralogist Nadezhda N. Mozgova.

16 May 2013

Loweite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution

Loweite was first found in Ischl, Hallstatt, and Hall, Austria in 1847. The mineral was named after Alexander Lowe, Austrian chemist, Chief Assayer at the Mint, Vienna, Austria.

16 May 2013

Painite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution

Painite is a rare borate mineral first found in Myanmar by Arthur C.D. Pain, British mineralogist and gem dealer in the late 1950s. It was named after the person who discovered it.

16 May 2013

Pringleite – Occurrence, Properties and Distribution

Pringleite is the triclinic dimorph of Ruitenbergite. It derived its name from Gordon J. Pringle, mineralogist, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.

15 May 2013

Nobleite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution

Nobleite is a transparent mineral containing calcium, boron, hydroxide and water. It was named after Levi Fatzinger Noble (1882-1965), American geologist, for contributing to the geology of the Death Valley region.

15 May 2013

Krausite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution

Krausite comprises potassium, iron, sulphates and water and was named after Dr. Edward Henry Kraus (1875-1973), American mineralogist from the University of Michigan.

15 May 2013

Kalinite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution

Kalinite is a mineral composed of hydrated potassium aluminum sulfate. The mineral was first found in San Bernardino County, California, USA in 1868. It was named for its potassium (kalium) content.

15 May 2013

Otavite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution

Otavite is a rare cadmium carbonate mineral first described in 1906 from the Tsumeb district near Otavi, Nambia. It is a member of calcite group. The mineral was named after its place of discovery.

15 May 2013