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palygorskite
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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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.
Its name comes from its composition of lithium and the Greek “philos” friend.
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
Its name honors Lord Greenock, from Greenock in Scotland where it was discovered in 1840.