Geographic Minerals
Kanoite: Properties and Occurrences
Kanoite is a light pinkish brown silicate mineral that is found in metamorphic rocks. It is a silicate mineral that is found in metamorphic rocks.…
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Kankite: Properties and Occurrences
Kankite is a mineral with the chemical formula Fe3+AsO4·3.5(H2O). It is a monoclinic yellow-green mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, iron, and oxygen. It contains the elements…
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Kampfite: Properties and Occurrences
Kampfite is a rare barium silicate–carbonate–halide mineral with formula: Ba12(Si11Al5)O31(CO3)8Cl5. Discovered in 1964 and described in 2001, it is named after Anthony R. Kampf. The…
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Kamiokite: Properties and Occurrences
Kamiokite is an iron-molybdenum oxide mineral with the chemical formula Fe2Mo3O8. It is a hexagonal-dihexagonal pyramidal iron black mineral containing iron, molybdenum, and oxygen. The…
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Kambaldaite: Properties and Occurrences
Kambaldaite, NaNi4(CO3)3(OH)3·3H2O, is an extremely rare hydrated sodium nickel carbonate mineral described from gossanous material associated with Kambalda type komatiitic nickel ore deposits at Kambalda,…
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Gossan – Mineral Overview
Gossan is intensely oxidized, weathered or decomposed rock, usually the upper and exposed part of an ore deposit or mineral vein. It is an iron-containing…
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Kamacite: Properties and Occurrences
Kamacite is an alloy of iron and nickel, which is found on Earth only in meteorites. It is a mineral consisting of iron alloyed with…
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Kalsilite: Properties and Occurrences
Kalsilite (KAlSiO4) is a vitreous white to the grey feldspathoidal mineral that is found in some potassium-rich lavas, such as from Chamengo Crater in Uganda.…
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Kalinite: Properties and Occurrences
Kalinite is a mineral composed of hydrated potassium aluminum sulfate (a type of alum). It is a monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, and…
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Kalininite: Properties and Occurrences
Kalininite (ZnCr2S4) is a thiospinel mineral found in Russia in 1985 in the Pereval Marble Quarry, Slyudyanka (Sludyanka), Lake Baikal area, Irkutskaya Oblast’, Prebaikalia (Pribaikal’e),…
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Kainosite: Properties and Occurrences
Kainosite is a silicate mineral that has the formula of Ca2(Y, Ce) SiO4O12(CO3)•(H2O). It is a mineral consisting of hydrous silicate and carbonate of calcium,…
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Kainite: Properties and Occurrences
Kainite, formula- [KMg(SO4)Cl·3H2O] is an evaporite mineral in the class of “Sulfates (selenates, etc.) with additional anions, with H2O” according to the Nickel-Strunz classification. It…
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