Musgravite: Properties and Occurrences
Musgravite is an extremely rare member of the taaffeite family that was discovered in 1967 in the Musgrave Range of South Australia. It is also…
Geographic Minerals
Pierre Shale
The Pierre Shale (/pɪər ʃeɪl/), the Upper Cretaceous rock division in the United States (the Cretaceous Period lasted from about 146 million to 65.5 million…
Formation And Composition Of Oil Shale
Oil shale is generally described as a fine-grained sedimentary rock containing organic matter (kerogen) that, upon destructive distillation, yields significant amounts of oil and combustible…
Mundite: Properties and Occurrences
Mundite is an orthorhombic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and uranium. It is a uranium phosphate mineral with chemical formula: Al(UO2)3(PO4)2(OH)3·5(H2O). It contains aluminum…
Oil Sands (Definition, Process)
Oil sands are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit, often referred to as tar sands, crude bitumen or more technically bituminous sands. Oil sands are…
Murdochite: Properties and Occurrences
Murdochite is an isometric-hexoctahedral black mineral containing bromine, chlorine, copper, lead, and oxygen. It is a mineral combining lead and copper oxides with the formula…
Mullite: Properties and Occurrences
Mullite is a type of rare mineral consisting of aluminum silicate. It is also known as porcelainite, is a rare silicate mineral of post-clay genesis.…
Motukoreaite: Properties and Occurrences
Motukoreaite is a trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing aluminum, carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, sodium, and sulfur. It is a mineral with the formula Mg6Al3(OH)18[Na(H2O)](SO4)2·6H2O (possibly more…
Rhodplumsite – a rare rhodium-lead sulfide mineral
Rhodplumsite is a rhodium-lead sulphide mineral distinguished by the fact that it exhibits different colors when viewed from different angles, appearing white, creamy pink, or…
Mottramite: Properties and Occurrences
Mottramite is hydrous vanadate of lead and copper occurring as a crystalline incrustation of a velvet-black color on sandstone at Mottram in Cheshire, England. It…
Rhodite – a naturally occurring alloy of gold
Rhodite is a mineral consisting of a native alloy of rhodium and gold. It is also known as, rhodian gold, is a naturally occurring alloy…
Vanadate Mineral
Vanadate mineral Vanadate is a hard, silvery-grey, malleable transition metal. It is a mineral composed of vanadium, lead, oxygen, and chlorine. Vanadate mineral, any of…
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