List of minerals named after people explained

This is a list of minerals named after people. The chemical composition of the mineral follows the name.

A

C31H32N4Ni – American physicist Philip Hauge Abelson (1913–2004)

Cu2+Mn3+6O8SiO4 – German mineralogist Irmgard Abs-Wurmbach (1938–2020)

Zn2AsO4OH – French mineralogist Gilbert Joseph Adam (1795–1881)

NaCa2Si4O10F – English optical mineralogist Stuart Olof Agrell (1913–1996)

K4(UO2)(CO3)3 – German scholar Georgius Agricola (1494–1555)

Fe2+Al6[(OH)<sub>4</sub>|(PO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub>]2·4H2O – American geologist Allen V. Heyl (1918–2008)

Ca4Mg(UO2)2(CO3)6F2·17H2O – Albrecht Schrauf (1837–1897), professor of mineralogy, University of Vienna

Ba5Cl(PO4)3 – American geologist John T. Alfors (1930–2005)

(Fe,Ni)2P – Alla Bogdanova, Geological Institute, Kola Science Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences

Na5K1.5(Al6Si6O24)(SO4)(OH)0.5 * H2O – Italian mineralogist Roberto Allori (born 1933)

crichtonite group (metal titanates); Brazilian geologist Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida (1916–2013)

Na2Ca(UO2)(CO3)3·6H2O – Charles Alfred Anderson (1902–1990), United States Geological Survey

Ca3Fe2Si3O12 – Brazilian statesman, naturalist, professor and poet José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva (1763–1838)

CaFe2+(CO3)2 – Austrian mineralogist Matthias Joseph Anker (1771–1843)

Cu(OH)2·3H2O – John Williams Anthony (1920–1992), professor of mineralogy, University of Arizona

Mn7(VO4)2(OH)8 – Swiss geologist Émile Argand (1879–1940)

Na3(Fe,Mg)4FeSi8O22(OH)2 – Swedish chemist Johan August Arfwedson (1792–1841)

(Mg,Fe2+)Ti2O5 – American astronauts ARM Neil Armstrong, AL Buzz Aldrin and COL Michael Collins

K5Na3Mn3+Mn2+14[Si<sub>9</sub>O<sub>22</sub>]4(OH)10·4H2O – Swiss crystallographer Thomas Armbruster (born 1950), University of Bern

CaZr[Si<sub>6</sub>O<sub>15</sub>]·3H2O – American astronaut Neil Armstrong (1930–2012)

CuFe23+[(OH,O)|(AsO<sub>4</sub>,PO<sub>4</sub>,SO<sub>4</sub>)]2·4H2O – British mineralogists Arthur Edward Ian Montagu Russell and Arthur W. G. Kingsbury

– Daniel Atencio, professor of mineralogy, Geoscience Institute, University of São Paulo

Tl2O3 – Persian scholar and physician Avicenna (980–1037)

B

Pb3As4S9 – German mineralogist Heinrich Adolph Baumhauer (1848–1926)

Be3(Sc,Fe)2Si6O18 – Italian engineer Alessandro E. Bazzi

Ba6Ca6Mg(CO3)13 – Orlando J. Benston (1901–1966), an ore-dressing metallurgist with the University of Illinois

Ca6(Cr,Al)2(SO4)3(OH)12·26H2 – Israeli geologist Yaakov Ben-Tor (1910–2002)

(Fe,Sb)2S4 – French geologist and mining engineer Pierre Berthier (1782–1861)

Be4Si2O7(OH)2 – French mineralogist Emile Bertrand (1844–1909)[1]

Cu2Se – Swedish chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779–1848)

NaCa2Mg2(AsO4)3 and manganberzeliite – Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779–1848)

[Al<sub>6</sub>(AsO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>3</sub>(OH)<sub>9</sub>(H<sub>2</sub>O)<sub>5</sub>]・11H2O – John Betterton (b. 1959, London), museum geologist and mineralogist at Haslemere Educational Museum in Surrey, England

PbFe3+3(AsO4)(SO4)(OH)6 – François Sulpice Beudant (1787–1850) French mineralogist, University of Paris, Paris

Au4Cu(Te,Pb) – Russian mineralogists Vladimir (1912–2002) and Marianna Bezsmertnaya (1915–1991).

Au2Cu2PbTe2+ – Soviet geologist Yuri A. Bilibin (1901–1952)

Na2B5O8(OH) – Vannoccio Biringuccio (1480–1538/9), Italian alchemist, metallurgist

Be3(AlMn)2Si6O18 – American mineralogist Maynard Bixby; deprecated to red beryl to avoid confusion with bixbyite

(Fe,Mn)2O3 – American mineralogist Maynard Bixby

Na2Mg(SO4)2 – German chemist Carl August Blöde (1773–1820)

αCu2V2O7 – mineralogist Donald F. Bloss, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Na2Mn2+5Fe3+Al(PO4)6 – Robert Bury Ferguson, University of Manitoba

γ-AlO(OH) – Bohemian-German chemist Johann Böhm (1895–1952)

Cu5FeS4 – Austrian mineralogist Ignaz von Born (1742–1791)

As4S4 – Paola Bonazzi, Italian professor of mineralogy and crystallography at the University of Florence (1960-2024)

PbCuSbS3 – French crystallographer and mineralogist Jacques Louis de Bournon (1751–1825)[2]

PtS – the first mineral characterized by X-ray analysis. William Henry Bragg (1862–1942) and his son, William Lawrence Bragg (1890–1971)

Ca2Mn2+(AsO4)2 – Swedish chemist Georg Brandt (1694–1768)

NiSb – Saxon mineralogist Johann Friedrich August Breithaupt (1791–1873)

Cu2(Zn,Fe)GeS4 – Belgian geologist Gaston Briart

TiO2 – English mineralogist Henry James Brooke (1771–1857)

Mg(OH)2 – American mineralogist Archibald Bruce (1777–1818)

NH4AlSi3O8 – American Petrologist Arthur Francis Buddington (1890–1980)

KCdCu2+7(SeO3)2O2Cl9 – Peter Carman Burns (born 1966), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
Thompson ISI top ten most highly cited geoscientists (1996–2007)

CaSn(OH)6 – American mining geologist Donald McLain Burt (born 1943)

(Fe,Zn,Mn)S – American geologist Peter R. Buseck, Arizona State University

C

Pd2SnCu – Canadian mineralogist Louis J. Cabri (born 1934)

sorosilicate – Fernando Cámara (born 1967), mineralogist of Melilla, Spain

Na6Ca2[(CO<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub> – [[Georg von Cancrin]] (1774–1845)

Ag8SnS6 – American mining engineer Frederick Alexander Canfield (1849–1926)

Bi2(OH)2SO4 – American mineralogist and electron microprobe analyst Benjamin Bartlett (Bart) Cannon

CaTe4+2Te6+O8 – American researcher at the Institute of Geology of the National university of Mexico Carl Fries, Jr.

Ca2AlF7 – German mineralogist Carl Hintze (1851–1916), University of Breslau

K6(Na,K)4Na6Mg10(SeO4)12(IO3)12 – Chilean geologist Carlos Ruiz Fuller (1916–1997), founder of the Chilean Geological Survey

KMgCl3 – Prussian mining engineer, Rudolf von Carnall (1804–1874)

K2(UO2)2(VO4)2 – French mining engineer and chemist Marie Adolphe Carnot (1839–1920)

Ca2Ni0.75Mg0.25(PO4)2 – American geologist William A. Cassidy[3]

NaCrS2 – American geologist, entrepreneur, and oilman Caswell Silver (1916–1988)

Mg3(PO4)2 · 22H2O – Michele Catti (b. 1945), Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

BaAl2Si2O8 – Swedish astronomer and naturalist Anders Celsius (1701–1744)

Cu2CdSnS4 – Canadian mineralogist Petr Cerny

Cu6(TeO3)2(OH)6 – French mineralogist Fabian Cesbron

Ag2Pd3Se4 – British mineralogist Christopher John Stanley

– American mineral chemist and former chief chemist of the United States Geological Survey Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847–1931)

Ca(Mg,Al)3(Al3Si)O10(OH)2 – American statesman De Witt Clinton (1769–1828)

U(SiO4)1−x(OH)4x – American geologist Reuben Clare Coffin

– German mineralogist and petrographer Emil Cohen (1842–1905)

Ca2B6O11 – mine owner William T. Coleman (1824–1893)

Ca2Mg(PO4)2 – William Henry Collins (1878–1937), director of the Geological Survey of Canada

– Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus (c. 1451–1506)

(Pt,Pd,Ni)S – South African metallurgist Richard A. Cooper (1890–1972)

(Mg,Fe)2Al4Si5O18 to (Fe,Mg)2Al4Si5O18 – French geologist Louis Cordier (1777–1861)

CuS – Italian mineralogist Niccolo Covelli (1790–1829)

(Fe2+,Fe3+)3(Si,Fe3+)2O5(OH)4 – Swedish mineralogist Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722–1765)

– English chemist and physicist Sir William Crookes (1832–1919)

Cu(UO2)2(HSiO4)2·6(H2O) – Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist Marie Curie (1867–1934)

D

PbHgAs2S6 – Farahnaz Daliran, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

K2ZrSi6O15 – Reginald Aldworth Daly (1871–1957), Harvard University

Be3Fe2+4(SiO4)3S – American geologist, mineralogist and zoologist James Dwight Dana (1813–1895)

Na12K3Ca6Fe2+3Zr3 – Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

NaAlCO3(OH)2 – Canadian geologist Sir John William Dawson (1820–1899)

Hg+2Hg2+3Cr6+O5S2 – Deane K. Smith (1930–2001), professor of geosciences, Penn State University

Fe2+6Fe3+3(Si6O17)O3(OH)5 – William Alexander Deer (1910–2009), mineralogist-petrologist, Cambridge University, Cambridge

CuFeO2 – French mineralogist Gabriel Delafosse (1796–1878)

Ca6(Si2O7)(SiO4)(OH)2 – geochemist, Della M. Roy (1926–2021)

– Spanish–Mexican scientist and naturalist Andrés Manuel del Río (1764–1849)

Pb2Cu5(UO2)2(SeO3)6(OH)6·2H2O – Belgian geologist Gaston Demesmaeker (1911–1997)

PbZnVO4(OH) – Alfred Lewis Oliver Legrand Des Cloizeaux (1817–1897), professor of mineralogy, University of Paris, Paris

CaCu4(SO4)2(OH)6·3H2O – French chemist Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville (1818–1881)

Al2Si2O5(OH)4 – Scottish metallurgical chemist Allan Brugh Dick (1833–1926)

or – American mineralogist Daniel Jerome Fisher (1896–1988), professor at the University of Chicago

CaCeMg2AlSi3O11F(OH) – American geologist Wayne A. Dollase (born 1938), geology professor at UCLA

CaMg(CO3)2 – French naturalist and geologist Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu (1750–1801)

Cu3As – Polish geologist, mineralogist and educator Ignacy Domeyko (1802–1889)

NaCaSr3Y(CO3)6 – Canadian professors J. D. H. Donnay and G. Donnay

Al6.5–7BO3(SiO4)3(O,OH)3 – French paleontologist Eugene Dumortier (1803–1873)

Cubic CaSiO3– Mineral physicist Ho-kwang Mao

E

NiMn3O7·3H2O – Canadian-Australian mineralogist Ernest (Ernie) H. Nickel (1925–2009)

Mg(CH3SO3)2·12H2O – mineralogist Ernst A. J. Burke, former Head of the CNMNC (IMA)

Cr2O3 – Finnish geologist Pentti Eelis Eskola (1883–1964)

PbCa3Zn4(SiO4)4 – American petrologist Esper S. Larsen Jr. (1879–1961), Harvard University (Originally called calcium larsenite)

Al3(PO4)(OH)6·6H2O – British nickel refiner, weapons manufacturer and geologist Brooke Evans (1797–1862)

F

Mg3(PO4)2 – American geologist Oliver C. Farrington (1864–1933)

FeWO4 – German amateur mineralogist Moritz Rudolph Ferber (1805–1875)

(Na,K)2Mg(Si,Al)18O36(OH) – Canadian geologist and mining engineer Walter Frederick Ferrier (1865–1950)

amphiboles – Italian mineralogist Roberta Oberti (born 1951)

(Ce,La,Nd)NbO4 – British politician and mineral collector Robert Ferguson of Raith (1767–1840)

Pb3Ge(SO4)2(OH)6 – American mineralogist and geochemist Michael Fleischer (1908–1998)

Cu11(VO4)6O2 – American mineralogist and crystallographer Larry W. Finger (born 1940)

– American mineralogist Eugene Edward Foord (1946–1998)

Mg2SiO4 – German naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–1798)

Pb5Sn3Sb2S14 – mining engineers Carl Francke and Ernest Francke

Cu2Te6+O4(OH)2 – Frank C. Hawthorne (born 1946), University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
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AgPbSbS3 – Mining Commissioner of Saxony Johann Karl Freiesleben (1774–1846)

Cu5Pb5Bi7S18 – Austrian geologist Othmar Michael Friedrich (1902–1991)

G

(Ce,La,Nd,Y)2FeBe2Si2O10 – Finnish mineralogist and chemist Johan Gadolin (1760–1852)

ZnAl2O4 – Swedish chemist Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745–1818)

Mn2+5(PO4)2(OH)4 – crystal chemist Bryan M. K. C. Gatehouse (born 1932), Monash University, Melbourne

(Pt,Pd)4Sb3 – Soviet mineralogist A. D. Genkin

Pb4(CrO4)2(OH)2FCl – George Willard Robinson

– Alsatian chemist Charles Frédéric Gerhardt

Al(OH)3 – American mineralogist George Gibbs (1777–1834)

– Subrata Ghose (born 1932), emeritus professor at the University of Washington, Seattle

FeOOH – German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

sorosilicate – American mineralogist and geochemist Julian Royce Goldsmith (1918–1999)

– mineralogist Donald Herbert Gorman, University of Toronto

– British geologist and author John Walter Gregory (1864–1932)[5]

– mineralogist and physical chemist Joseph W. Greig (1895–1977)[6]

– Israeli mineralogist and geologist Shulamit Gross (1923–2012)

Fe7Si8O22(OH)2 – Swiss-French chemist Emmanuel-Louis Gruner (1809–1883)

– French naturalist Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715–1786)[7]

Ba(UO2)3(SeO3)2(OH)4·3H2O – French chemist and mineralogist Jean Claude Guillemin (1923–1994)

Na4(H2O)16(H2V10O28) – American mineralogist Mickey Gunter (born 1953)

(Zn,Mn2+)SO4·H2O – Canadian geologist and academic Henry C. Gunning (1901–1991)[8]

H

Ba(Fe2+6Ti5Mg)O19 – American geophysicist Stephen E. Haggerty (born 1938)

Ca(AsO3OH) – Austrian mineralogist Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (1795–1871)

Al2Si2O5(OH)4 – Belgian geologist Omalius d'Halloy

Be2BO3OH – Swedish mineralogist Axel Hamberg (1863–1933)

Na22K(SO4)9(CO3)2Cl – Henry Garber Hanks (1826–1907), first state mineralogist of California

Fe2Si – American planetary scientist Bruce Hapke

Mn2+Mn3+2O4 – Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann (1782–1859), professor of mineralogy, University of Göttingen, Göttingen

CdS – Canadian mineralogist James Edwin Hawley (1897–1965)

– Robert M. Hazen of the Carnegie Institute

– Ulf Hålenius, director of the mineralogy department at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, Sweden

Na3Ca(Si3Al3)O12(SO4) – French mineralogist René Just Haüy (1743–1822)

Ba(UO2)2(AsO4)2 – mineralogist Eberhardt William Heinrich (1918–1991)

KZn3(Si3Al)O10(OH)2 – American agriculturist Sterling B. Hendricks (1902–1981)

ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2 – British mineralogist Herbert Smith (1872–1953)

Ag2Te – Swiss-born Russian chemist Germain Henri Hess (1802–1850)

– Swedish petrologist Per Johan Holmquist (1866–1946)

(Ta0.6◻0.4)Al6BSi3O18(O,OH)2.25 – Harold Holt (1908–1967), prime minister of Australia

Zn3(PO4)2·4H2O – Scottish chemist Thomas Charles Hope (1766–1844)

inosilicate with 4-periodic single chain – Robert Andrew Howie (1923–2012), British petrologist and mineralogist of King's College, London University, London

Ca2B5SiO9(OH)5 – Canadian chemist, mineralogist Henry How (1828–1879)

MnWO4 – German mineralogist Adolf Huebner

(Tl,Pb)2As5S9 – Cambridge mineralogist Arthur Hutchinson (1866–1937)

ThSiO4 – New Zealand-American mineralogist Colin Osborne Hutton (1910–1971)

J

– American chemist Eugene Jarosewich

(Mg,Fe)5Si6O16(OH)2 – American mineralogist James Burleigh Thompson, Jr.

(Ca)5(AsO4)3(OH) – American geologist and mineralogist John L. Baum[9] [10] [11]

CaZn2Si2O7·H2O – Jun Ito (1926–1978), mineralogist and crystallographer, University of Chicago

K

Na(Fe2+,Mn2+)PO4 – American geologist Karen L. Webber

CaTi2O4(OH)2 – Russian geologist Nikolai Grigorievich Kassin (1885–1949)

Ba12(Si11Al5)O31(CO3)8Cl5 – Anthony Robert Kampf (born 1948)

– American mineralogist Klaus Keil (1934–2022)

Na12Ca6Sr3Fe3WZr3(Si25O73)(O,OH,H2O)3(Cl,OH)2 – Russian mineralogist Alexander Khomyakov (1933–2012)

MgSO4 – Dietrich Georg von Kieser (1779–1862), former president, Jena Academy

FeTi6O13 – German professor Will Kleber (1906–1970)

Pb22Cu4(Bi,Sb)30S69 – German mineralogist Wolfgang Franz von Kobell (1803–1882)

CaAl2(CO3)2(OH)4H2O – Hungarian mineralogist Sándor Koch (1896–1983)

Na3(SO4)F – Russian scientist Lia Nikolaevna Kogarko

ScPO4 – German mineralogist Friedrich L. W. Kolbeck

Zr2(PO4)3 – after Richard Andrew "Rich" Kosnar (1946–2007), American mineral collector

AuTe2 varying to (Au0.8,Ag0.2)Te2 – Hungarian mineralogist Joseph Krenner (1839–1920)

CaAl2O4 – Russian-American cosmochemist Alexander N. Krot

CuSe2 Czech mineralogist Tomas Krut'a (1906–1998)

Ba3CeF(CO3)3 – Russian mineralogist Alexander A. Kukharenko (1914–1993)

MgB3O3(OH)5 – Russian mineralogist and chemist Nikolai Semenovich Kurnakov (1860–1941)

L

NaAl(PO4)F – French mineralogist Antoine François Alfred Lacroix (1863–1948)

Cu4(SO4)(OH)6·2H2O – Austrian chemist Viktor von Lang (1838–1921)

K(Li,Cu,Mg,Na)2Cu6(Si4O11)2(OH)4 – photographer of minerals Robert Lavinsky (Commons:Robert Lavinsky)

Mn2+8[Al<sub>10</sub>(Mn<sup>3+</sup>Mg)][Si<sub>11</sub>P]O44(OH)12 – French chemist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743–1794)

Zn2(AsO4)(OH)·(H2O) – Belgian mining engineer Louis C.A. Legrand (1861–1920)

NaCaCu5(AsO4)4Cl·5H2O – Chester S. Lemanski, Jr. (b. 1947), American mineral collector

Ca3Cu5Si9O26 – German Friedrich Liebau (1926–2011), professor of mineralogy, University of Kiel

Co+2Co+32S4 – Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778)

(Fe2+,Mn2+)(Fe3+)2(PO4)2(OH) – American chemist William Lipscomb (1919–2011)

HgSb4S8 – Scottish explorer in Africa David Livingstone (1813–1873)

C – British crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–1971)

TlAsS2 – Hungarian physicist Loránd Eötvös (1848–1919)

– German chemist Julius Lothar Meyer (1830–1895)

(K,NH4)As4O6(Cl,Br) – Luca Bindi, professor of mineralogy and former head of the Division of Mineralogy of the Natural History Museum of the University of Florence (b. 1971)

Na3Ce2(CO3)4F – American mineralogist Luke L. Y. Chang (1934–2009)[12]

M

BaCa4Si16O36(OH)2 – American volcanologist, Gordon Andrew Macdonald (1911–1978, redirect)

FeZr(PO4)2 · 4H2O – Bertha K. Malhmood, for many years Administrative Assistant of the Branch of Analytical Laboratories, U.S. Geological Survey

Fe2(SeO3)3 · 4H2O – American-Canadian mineralogist Joseph (Joe) A. Mandarino (1929–2007)

NaFePO4 – Croatian mineralogist Luka Marić (1899–1979), University of Zagreb

(NH4)2SO4 – Italian anatomist Paolo Mascagni (1752–1815)

K5(UO2)4(SO4)4(VO5) · 4(H2O) – German minister Johannes Mathesius (1504–1565)

Ba3NaCa0.75U0.25Y(CO3)6 – American geologist Vincent E. McKelvey (1916–1985)

CaB3O3(OH)5 · H2O – German chemist, Wilhelm Meyerhoffer (1864–1906)

Ca(UO2)(CO3)2 · 5H2O – after Robert Meyrowitz (1916–2013), an American analytical chemist

Cs6(Ce22Ca6)(Si70O175)(OH,F)14(H2O)21 – Russian chemist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834–1907)

NiS – British mineralogist William Hallowes Miller (1801–1880)

Al2(SO4)3 – Italian mineralogist Federico Millosevich (1875–1942)

SiC (naturally occurring) – discoverer Henri Moissan (1852–1907)

Ca(Mg,Fe)SiO4 – Italian mineralogist Teodoro Monticelli (1759–1845)

CaMn3+SiO4(OH) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

PbCu6O8−x(Cl,Br)2x – American mineralogist Joseph Murdoch (1890–1973)

N

Ca4Ti2(Fe3+,Fe2+)(Si,Fe3+,Al)O11 – Russian mineralogist Natalia Artyemovna Kulik (born 1933)

Pb6Ca4(Si2O7)3Cl2 – American mining engineer and author Frank Lewis Nason (1856–1928)

KLiMn3+2(Si4O10)O2 – Australian geologist Keith Norrish (1924–2017), pioneer of wavelength-dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis

Fe2+6Al3(OH)18[Na(H<sub>2</sub>O)<sub>6</sub>][SO<sub>4</sub>]2·6H2O – American mineralogist Anthony J. Nikischer (born 1949)

O

CaSi2O5·2H2O – German naturalist Lorenz Oken (1779–1851)

P

Sb2AsS2 – Finnish geologist Viekko Pääkkönen (1907–1980)

BaSnSi3O9 – Adolf Pabst (1899–1990), professor of mineralogy, University of California, Berkeley

Ca2Al4Si4O15(OH)2·4H2O – Swiss crystallographer Erwin Parthé (1928–2006)

UO2(OH)2 – Swiss physicist Paul Scherrer (1890–1969)

BaMg2Al2(PO4)3(OH)3 – Canadian explorer Gunar Penikis (1936–1979)

Ca3Al7(SiO4)3(PO4)4(OH)3·16.5(H2O) – American geologist and pegmatite miner Frank C. Perham (born 1934)

PbBiO2Cl – Swedish geologist Per Adolf Geijer (1886–1976)

CaTiO3 – Russian mineralogist L. A. Perovski (1792–1856)

Cs(Be2Li)Al2Si6O18 – Italian geologist and mineralogist Federico Pezzotta

(Ca,Na2,K2)3Al6Si10O32·12H2O – English mineralogist and geologist William Phillips (1775–1828)

Ca2Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 – Dutch governor Colonel Hendrik Von Prehn

(Ca2Y)Zr2Al3O12 – American geologist Priscilla Croswell Perkins Grew (1940 –)

Ag3AsS3 – French chemist Joseph Louis Proust (1754–1826)

SrCa4Cr83+(CO3)8(SO4)(OH)16·25H2O – mineralogists Andrew and Christine Putnis

R

MnS – mineralogist Hans Ramberg (1917–1998)

NiAs2 – Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg (1813–1899)

PbWO4 – prospector Charles Rasp (1846–1907)

Pb10Zn(SO4)6(SiO4)2(OH)2 – Raymond W. Grant, professor of geology at Mesa Community College, Mesa, Arizona.

– Armand Renier (1876–1951), director of the Belgian Geological Survey

Na2(Fe,Mg)5Si8O22(OH)2 – German explorer Emil Riebeck (1853–1885)

jahnsite-whiteite group – Swiss volcanologist Alfred Rittmann (1893–1980)

Ca2(Co2+, Mg)[AsO<sub>4</sub>]2·H2O – German mineralogist Gustav Rose (1798–1873)

(LiAl2)Al6Si6O18(BO3)3(OH)4 – Caltech mineralogist George R. Rossman

(BiO2)WO4 – British mineralogist Arthur Russell

Ca10(Si2O7)2(SiO4)(OH)2Cl2 – American material scientist, Rustum Roy (1924–2010)

S

Mg(UO2)2(PO4)2·10H2O – Belgian mineralogist Achille Salée (1883–1932)

Y0.2REE0.3Fe3+0.3U0.2Nb0.8Ta0.2O4 – Russian official Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets (1803–1870)

BaSi2O5 – American mineralogist Frank B. Sanborn (1862–1936)

(Fe++,Mg)2(PO4)(OH) – Canadian geologist Jack Satterly (born 1906)

CaWO4 – German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786)

VO5 – Soviet geologist Vladimir Shcherbina (1907–1978)

(UO2)8O(OH)12·12H2O – Alfred Schoep (1881–1966), professor of mineralogy at the University of Ghent

(Fe,Ni)3P – Austrian naturalist Carl Franz Anton Ritter von Schreibers (1775–1852)

V2Ti3O9 – German mineralogist Werner Schreyer (1930–2006)

NaCa3(UO2) – Julius Freiherr Schröckinger von Neudenberg (1814–1882)

BaCu2Si2O7 – Michael Scott (born 1945), first CEO of Apple and significant sponsor of the Rruff project

Mn3[B(OH)<sub>4</sub>](PO4)(OH)2 – Arthur Edmund Seaman (1858–1937)

PbFe3H(AsO4)2(OH)6 – after Australian mineralogist, gemologist and petrologist Edgar Ralph Segnit (1923–1999)

(Fe+2,Mg)2Al4Si5O18 – Czech mineralogist Josef Sekanina (born 1901)

MgF2 – Italian politician and mineralogist Quintino Sella (1827–1884)

Sb2O3 – French mineralogist and physician Henri Hureau de Sénarmont (1808–1862)

Cu2(OH)2[UO<sub>2</sub>|VO<sub>4</sub>]2·6H2O – Belgian UMHK director Edgar Sengier (1879–1963)[13]

– Giovanni Battista Serpieri (1832–1897)

Ca3TiFe3+AlO8 – Israeli mineralogist and geologist Shulamit Gross (1923–2012)

Al2SiO5 – American chemist Benjamin Silliman (1779–1864)

Al4(Ta,Nb)3O13(OH) – Australian mineralogist Edward Sydney Simpson (1875–1939)

Mg(UO2)2(HSiO4)2·5H2O – Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist Marie Curie (1867–1934)

– British mineralogist Herbert Smith (1872–1953)

ZnCO3 – British chemist and mineralogist, James Smithson (1754–1829)

PtAs2 – American chemist Francis Louis Sperry

K0.3(Ca,Na)2ThSi8O20 – Canadian mineralogist Harold Robert Steacy (born 1923)

Sr2Al(CO3)F5 – Danish physician Nicolaus Steno (Niels Steensen) (1638–1686)

Ag5SbS4 – Archduke Stephan of Austria (1817–1867)

Mg6Cr2CO3(OH)16·4H2O – American born Australian mine manager Robert Carl Sticht (1857–1922)

ZnSe – German geologist Hans Stille (1876–1966)

PbWO4 – Czechoslovakian Joseph Alexi Stolz (1803–1896)

Cu8(AsO4)4(OH)4·5H2O – Bulgarian petrographer and mineralogist Strashimir Dimitrov (1892–1960)

AgCuS – German chemist, Friedrich Stromeyer (1776–1835)

Mn2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2·6H2O – German mineralogist Karl Hugo Strunz (1910–2006)

Pt(Sb,Bi) – Austrian professor of mineralogy Eugen Friedrich Stumpfl (1931–2004)

KNa2(Fe,Mn,Al)2Li3Si12O30 – Japanese petrologist Ken-ichi Sugi (1901–1948)

SrAl3(PO4)(SO4)(OH)6 – Swedish chemist Lars Fredrik Svanberg (1805–1878)

NaBe4Sb5+O7 – Swedish scientist and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772)

Zn(OH)2 – Curator of mineral department of the British Museum, Jessie Sweet (1901–1979)

KCl – Dutch chemist Franciscus Sylvius (1614–1672)

T

Zn2(PO4)(OH) Percy Coventry Tarbutt (died 1943), a Director of the Broken Hill Exploration Company

PbSnS2 – British geologist Jethro Justinian Harris Teall (1849–1924)

Cu12As4S13 – English chemist Smithson Tennant (1761–1815)

CuO – Italian botanist Michele Tenore (1780–1861)

Ni(OH)2 – Greek philosopher and writer Theophrastus (c. 371 – c. 287 BC)

Na0.8Ce0.2Y0.5REE0.7(HCO3)(OH)3·4H2O – Canadian geologist Thomas Clark (1893–1996)

(Sc,Y)2Si2O7 – Norwegian engineer Olaus Thortveit

HgSe – Johann Carl Wilhelm Tiemann (1848–1899)

CuAl(UO2)2(PO4)2·8-12H2O – Swedish chemist Torbern Bergman (1735–1784)

NiFe2O4 – Major Tudor Gruffydd Trevor, mining inspector for the Pretoria District, Transvaal, South Africa

– Rudy W. Tschernich (born 1945), expert on zeolites

– Austrian mineralogist Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg (1836–1927)

U

NaCaB5O9·8H2O – German chemist George Ludwig Ulex (1811–1883)

NiSbS – German chemist and mineralogist Johann Christoph Ullmann (1771–1821, redirect)

Ag3AuS2 – Dutch mineralogist Willem Uytenbogaardt (1918–2012)

Ca3Cr2(SiO4)3 – Russian Count Sergei Semenovitch Uvarov (1765–1855)

V

NiS2 – Belgian mineralogist Johannes F. Vaes (1902–1978)

Sb2O3 – German alchemist Basilius Valentinus (might be Johann Thölde? 1565–1614)

Na6Mg(SO4)4 – Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff (1852–1911), professor of chemistry

CaCO3 – German mineralogist Heinrich Vater (1859–1930)

(Cu,Zn)2Zn(PO4)(OH)3·2H2O – Ágost Veszely (1821–1879), Hungarian mining engineer

(Pd,Pt)3(As,Sb,Te) – Ewart Albert "David" Vincent (1919–2012), mineralogist at Durham College and Oxford University (UK) and chair of Geology at Manchester University (UK)

Fe3(PO4)2·8H2O and metavivianite - English mineralogist John Henry Vivian (1785–1855)

W

NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4·2H2O – American naturalist Henry Augustus Ward (1834–1906)

Zn3(AsO4)2·2H2O – German mineral collector Walter Richard Kahn (born 1911)

K2(UO2)2Si6O15·4H2O – USGS mineralogist Alice Mary Dowse Weeks (1909–1988)

Na2(Sr,Ca)3Zr(CO3)6·3H2O – Canadian geologist William Edmond Logan (1798–1875)

Ca2Mg(AsO4)2·2H2O – Wendell E. Wilson (born 1946), Mineralogical Record editor and publisher

CaC2O4·H2O – English mineralogist William Whewell (1794–1866)

Ca3(PO4)2 – American mineralogist Herbert Percy Whitlock (1868–1948)

Zn2SiO4 – William I of the Netherlands (1772–1843)

BaCO3 – English physician and naturalist William Withering (1741–1799)

CaSiO3 – English chemist and mineralogist William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828)

CaAl3(SO4)(PO4)(OH)6 – American mineralogist Charles Douglas Woodhouse (1888–1975)

Fe2+2(PO4)(OH) – American mineralogist Caleb Wroe Wolfe (1908–1980)[14]

PbMoO4 – Austrian mineralogist Franz Xaver von Wulfen (1728–1805)

K3NaCu4O2(SO4)4 – Russian crystallographer George (Yuri Viktorovich) Wulff (ru|Георгий (Юрий) Викторович Вульф; 1863–1925)

·7H2O – Jean Wyart (1902–1992), mineralogist at the Sorbonne

Y

PbMnSi3O8·H2O – Hexiong Yang, Mineralogy researcher at the Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona

Z

Zn4Al2CO3(OH)12·3H2O – Italian geologist and mineral collector Domenico Zaccagna (1851–1940)

Al12(OH)26(SO4)5·20H2O – Bangladeshi geologist M. A. Zaher (c. 1932–2017)

Na(REExCa1−x)(REEyCa1−y)F6 – Explorer Ihor Stephan Zajac (born 1935)

Na4Mn5Si10O20(OH)6·6H2O – Russian Director of the Moscow Institute of Geological Exploration Evgeii Evgen'evich Zakharov (1902–1980)

Ca2(MgFe)(MgFeMnAl)4Be(OH)4(PO4)6·6H2O – Italian Professor Pier Francesco Zanazzi (born 30 April 1939)

Ni3CO3(OH)4·4(H2O) – Spanish diplomat and dramatist Antonio Gil y Zárate (1793–1861)

(BiO)F – Soviet geologist and petrographer Alexander Nikolaevich Zavaritsky (1884–1952)

LiNa(Zr,Ti,Hf)Si6O15 – American mathematician and mineral collector Jack Zektzer (born 1936)[16]

Cu(UO2)2(AsO4)2·(10–16)H2O – German physicist, engineer and epistemologist Gustav Anton Zeuner (1828–1907)

CuZn – ancient Chinese astronomer Zhang Heng (78–139)

NaMgAl(C2O4)3·8H2O – Russian clay mineralogist Yury Zhemchuzhnikov (1885–1957)

βCu2V2O7 – mineralogist Emanuel George Zies

MgZr(PO4)2(H2O)4 – American mineral collector James Zigras (born 1981)

Pb9Sb22S42 – German mineralogist and mining geologist, Johann Karl Ludwig Zinken (1790–1862)[17] [18]

(UO2)6(SO4)3(OH)10·4H2O – Austrian mineralogist Franz Xaver Maximilian Zippe[19]

(Ca,Th,Ce)Zr(Ti,Nb)2O7 – German petrographer Ferdinand Zirkel (1838–1912)

Ca2(Al.OH)Al2(SiO4)3 – Carniolan scientist Sigmund Zois (1747–1819)

K(Fe2+,Mg,Mn)13[AlSi<sub>17</sub>O<sub>42</sub>](OH)14 – British geologist Jack Zussman (born 1924)

Fe3+4(AsO4)3(SO4)(OH)·15H2O – Czech geochemist Vacklav Zyka

See also

References

Notes and References

  1. http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/bertrandite.pdf Handbook of Mineralogy
  2. W.R. Hamilton, 1974, The Hamlyn Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Fossils, London, Hamlyn
  3. Web site: Cassidyite Mineral Data. Mineralogy Database. 29 September 2013.
  4. Web site: Fuchsite. mindat.org. Hudson Institute of Mineralogy. October 10, 2020.
  5. Web site: Gregoryite. mindat.org. Hudson Institute of Mineralogy. October 10, 2020.
  6. Greigite, the thio-spinel of iron; a new mineral . American Mineralogist . Brian J. . Skinner . Richard C. . Erd . Frank S. . Grimaldi . 543–55 . 49 . 1964.
  7. Web site: Guettardite. mindat.org. Hudson Institute of Mineralogy. October 10, 2020.
  8. Web site: Gunningite. mindat.org. Hudson Institute of Mineralogy. October 10, 2020.
  9. http://franklin-sterlinghill.com/dunn/ch07/cultural.stm#baum franklin-sterlinghill.com - franklin sterlinghill Resources and Information.
  10. http://www.webmineral.com/data/Johnbaumite.shtml Johnbaumite Mineral Data
  11. Web site: Johnbaumite. mindat.org. Hudson Institute of Mineralogy. October 10, 2020.
  12. Grice. Joel D.. George Y. Chao . Lukechangite-(Ce), a new rare-earth-fluorocarbonate mineral from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. American Mineralogist. 1997. 82. 11–12. 1255–1260. 1255. 10.2138/am-1997-11-1220. 1997AmMin..82.1255G. 99064114.
  13. Van der Straeten. Edgar. Biographie Belge d'Outre-Mer: Edgar Sengier. Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer. 1973. VII-A. 429–437.
  14. Web site: Wolfeite: Mineral information, data and localities. Mindat.
  15. Web site: Wroewolfeite: Mineral information, data and localities. Mindat.
  16. http://webmineral.com/data/Zektzerite.shtml Webmineral
  17. http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/zinkenite.pdf Handbook of Mineralogy
  18. Web site: Zinkenite. mindat.org. Hudson Institute of Mineralogy. October 10, 2020.
  19. Web site: Zippeite Mineral Data. www.webmineral.com.

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