75 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Baryte:
- A sulphate mineral
- Forms in many environments e.g. hydrothermal veins, evaporite deposits, volcanism
- Has a high specific gravity of 4.3-5 (quartz is only 2.65)
- Its name comes from the Greek word "βαρύς/barús" (heavy) #minerals
Baryte:
- A sulphate mineral
- Forms in many environments e.g. hydrothermal veins, evaporite deposits, volcanism
- Has a high specific gravity of 4.3-5 (quartz is only 2.65)
- Its name comes from the Greek word "βαρύς/barús" (heavy) #minerals
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Brochantite:
- A copper sulphate mineral
- Forms in arid climates or in rapidly oxidising copper sulphide deposits
- Named after French geologist and mineralogist André-Jean-François-Marie Brochant de Villiers (1772-1840) #minerals #MineralMonday
Dundasite:
- A rare lead aluminium carbonate mineral
- Forms in the oxidised zone of lead deposits
- Named after its type locality Dundas in Tasmania, Australia #minerals
Volborthite:
- A copper vanadium mineral
- Forms in oxidised zone of vanadium-bearing hydrothermal deposits
- Discovered in 1837 in Sofronovskii Mine, Russia
- Named after Alexander von Volborth (1800-1876), a Russian palaeontologist #minerals
Veszelyite:
- A copper-zinc phosphate mineral containing water
- Forms in the oxidised zone copper-zinc deposits
- Named after Ágost Veszely (1820-1888) a Hungarian mining engineer who discovered the species #minerals
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