palygorskite
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March 24, 2021
Identified in 1862, its name comes from that of a deposit in the Urals in Russia. Sometimes called “angel skin opal” because of its resemblance, but it’s not an opal.
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lithiophilite
ck_admin
March 24, 2021
Its name comes from its composition of lithium and the Greek “philos” friend.
kammererite
ck_admin
March 24, 2021
It was identified in 1841 by the Finnish mineralogist Nordenskiöld. Its name honors the Russian mining engineer Kammerer from St. Petersburg. The kammérérite, of a beautiful fuchsia pink, is a chromian variety of clinochlore whose name comes the Greek “klino”, for its oblique axis tilted
greenockite
ck_admin
March 24, 2021
Its name honors Lord Greenock, from Greenock in Scotland where it was discovered in 1840.
