Jadeite: Properties and Occurrences
Jadeite is a pyroxene mineral with composition NaAlSi2O6. It is monoclinic. It is a usually green monoclinic mineral of the pyroxene group that is a…
Geographic Minerals
Jadarite: Properties and Occurrences
Jadarite is a white, earthy monoclinic silicate mineral, whose chemical formula is LiNaSiB3O7(OH) or Na2OLi2O(SiO2)2(B2O3)3H2O. It is a mineral, sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide. It…
Jacobsite: Properties and Occurrences
Jacobsite is a manganese iron oxide mineral. It is in the spinel group and forms a solid solution series with magnetite. The chemical formula is…
Vesuvianite: Properties and Occurrences
Vesuvianite, also known as idocrase, is a green, brown, yellow, or blue silicate mineral. It is named after the Mount Vesuvius, where it was first…
Cordierite: Properties and Occurrences
Cordierite (mineralogy) or iolite (gemology) is a magnesium iron aluminum cyclosilicate. It is normally used for applications that required high temperatures and are subject to…
Ixiolite: Properties and Occurrences
Ixiolite is an accessory oxide mineral found in granitic pegmatites. It is an oxide with the general chemical formula (Ta, Nb, Sn, Mn, Fe)4O8 or…
Iridium: Properties and Occurrences
Iridium is a chemical element with symbol Ir and atomic number 77. A very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum group, iridium is…
Iranite: Properties and Occurrences
Iranite (Persian: ایرانیت) is a triclinic lead copper chromate silicate mineral with formula Pb10Cu(CrO4)6 (SiO4)2 (F, OH)2. It was first described from an occurrence in…
Iodyrite: Properties and Occurrences
Iodyrite or iodargyrite is a natural mineral form of silver iodide. It is a yellowish or greenish hexagonal mineral AgI consisting of native silver iodide…
Inyoite: Properties and Occurrences
Inyoite, named after Inyo County, California, where it was discovered in 1914, is a colorless monoclinic mineral. It turns white on dehydration. It is a…
Indium: Properties and Occurrences
Indium is a chemical element with symbol In and atomic number 49. It is a soft, ductile, manleable, lustrous metallic metal. It is a post-transition…
Indite: Properties and Occurrences
Indite is an extremely rare indium-iron sulfide mineral, found in Siberia. Its chemical formula is FeIn2S4. Indite is that mineral is (geology) any naturally occurring inorganic material that…
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