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sturmanite
ck_admin
March 24, 2021
It honors the name of the Canadian mineralogist B. Darko Sturman.
staurolite
ck_admin
March 24, 2021
It is named after his twins very frequently cross-shaped: the twin cross of St. Andrew (60 degrees) and that of the Greek cross (90 degrees), in Greek “stauros” means cross and “lithos”, stone, hence its name “cross stone”. Another twin “in wheel”shape exists in the
sphalerite
ck_admin
March 24, 2021
Its name comes from the Greek “sphaleros” meaning traitor, deceitful, because in its black variety it looked like galena but did not release lead during fusion … and because of its brightness was also confused with the diamond. It is the major ore of zinc.
