Adamsite-(Y)
Arakiite
Bakhchisaraitsevite
Batiferrite
Chabazite-Sr
Chromceladonite
Ercitite
Fluorannite
Gladiusite
Gottlobite
Johntomaite
Juanitaite
Kapitsaite-(Y)
Krettnichite
Levinsonite-(Y)
Litvinskite
Manganonaujakasite
Menshikovite
Paganoite
Rappoldite
Remondite-(La)
Rollandite
Ronneburgite
Schiavinatoite
Sicherite
Tamaite
Urusovite
Woodallite
Zincgartrellite
Zincowoodwardite
Zugshunstite-(Ce)

Per ulteriori informazioni si può scaricare il documento NEW MINERALS (formato pdf 412K) di Joseph A. Mandarino estratto dal The Canadian Mineralogist Vol.39, pp 1473-1502 (2001)

Ronneburgite

K2MnV4O12, monoclinic, type locality: from the dump of the Lichtenberg open pit uranium mine, Ronnenburg,
Thuringia, Germany associated with epsomite, gypsum, hematite, hummerite, and picromerite; simplotite, sincosite, straczekite,
and volborthite are also known from the mine, the name is for the locality.

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Sicherite

TlAg2(As,Sb)3S6, orthorhombic, type locality: Lengenbach, Binntal, Switzerland associated with hatchite, hutchinsonite, jentschite, and realgar, sometimes as inclusions in realgar, the name is for Valentin Sicher an active member in the syndicates that operate the quarry for scientific studies and specimen production.

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Adamsite-(Y)

NaY(CO3)2•6H2O, triclinic, type locality: from the Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada associated with donnayite-(Y), horvathite-(Y), petersenite-(Ce), and thomasclarkite-(Y) in a low temperature hydrothermal phase in an alkaline pegmatite dike, the name is for geology professor Frank Dawson Adams of McGill University, Montreal Quebec.

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Batiferrite

Ba[Ti2Fe10]O19, hexagonal, type locality: found in cavities with biotite, clinopyroxene, goetzenite, hematite, magnetite, nephelinte, and titanite in melilite- and leucite-basalt near Uedersdorf, Graulai, and Altburg, Eifel area, Germany, the name is for the chemical composition and the structural relationship to hexaferrite-type compounds.

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Gladiusite

Fe2(Fe,Mg)4(PO4)(OH)11(H2O), monoclinic, type locality: from vugs in veins of dolomite carbonatite in the Kovdor alkaline ultramafic complex, Kola Peninsula, Russia associated with bobierrite, catapleiite, collinsite, juonniite, pyrrhotite, rimkorolgite, and strontiowhitlockite, the name is for the crystal morphology (resembling a double-edged sword (gladius, Latin for sword)).

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Manganonaujakasite

Na6(Mn,Fe)Al4Si8O26, monoclinic, type locality: the Lovozero alkaline massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia associated with aegirine, analacime, lamprophyllite, nepheline, sodalite, tisinalite, villiaumite, and other minerals, the name is for the composition.

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Chabazite-Sr

(Sr,Ca)[Al2Si4O12]•6H2O, trigonal, type locality: in cavities in corroded analcime crystals in a K-feldspar and aegirine pegmatite veinlet on Suoluaiv Mountain, Lovozero massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia associated with analcime, apatite, gonnardite, låvenite, phillipsite, seidozerite and vinogradovite.

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Menshikovite

Pd3Ni2As3, forms anhedral grains to 0.15 mm, and veinlet-like grains, preliminary description only, type locality: as inclusions and along borders of chalcopyrite and as veinlet-like grains in hydrous silicates in the Lukkulaisvaara layered intrusion, Karelia, Russia; also at the Stillwater layered intrusion, Montana; at the Chiney layered intrusion, Siberia, Russia and the Two Duck
Lake and Geordie Lake intrusions, Canada.

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Paganoite

NiBiAsO5, triclinic,  type locality: Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony, Germany associated with aerugite, bismuth, bunsenite, nickeline, rooseveltite and xanthiosite, name is for amateur mineralogists Renato and Adriana Pagano of Cinisello, Milan, Italy.

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Rappoldite

Pb(Co,Ni)2(AsO2)2•2H2O, monoclinic, triclinic,  type locality: dump of the Rappold Mine, near Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany associated with cobaltlotharmeyerite as overgrowths on quartz, the name is for the locality.

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Zincgartrellite

Pb(Zn,Cu,Fe)2(AsO4)2(H2O,OH)2, triclinic, type locality: Tsumeb Mine, Namibia associated with chalcocite, duftite, and wulfenite. Name is for the Zn-analogue to gartrellite.

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Gottlobite

CaMg(VO4,AsO4)(OH), orthorhombic, occurs as freestanding crystals on hausmannite or embedded in barite and intergrown with adelite on dump material of hydrothermal barite veins in Fe-Mn ore at the Glueksstern Mine, Gottlob Hill, Friedrichroda, Thuringia, Germany, name is for the locality.

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Johntomaite

BaFe2Fe2(PO4)3(OH)3, monoclinic, hydrothermal origin, from the dumps of the Spring Creek copper mine, near Wilmington, southern Flinders Range, South Australia, Australia, associated with libethenite, mitridatite, pseudomalachite, and quartz, the name is for John Toma an amateur mineralogist who collected the type specimen.

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Kapitsaite-(Y)

(Ba,K,Pb,Na)4(Y,Ca,REE)2[Si8B2(B,Si)2O28F, triclinic, associated with aegirine, leucosphenite, microcline, pectolite, polylithionite, pyrochlore, quartz, reedmergnerite, sogdianite, and stillwellite-(Ce) in perakaline pegmatite in the moraine of the Dara-i-Pioz glacier, Alaiskii mountain range, Tien-Shan, Tajikistan, member of a complex solid solution series with hyalotekite.

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Rollandite

Cu3(AsO4)2•4H2O, orthorhombic, found in the old copper mines of Roua on western margin of
the Barrot Dome, Alpes-Maritimes, France associated with conichalcite, clinotyrolite, cornubite, kolfanite, olivenite, and other minerals, the name is for mineral collector Pierre Rolland.

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Tamaite

(Ca,K,Ba,Na)3-4Mn24(Si,Al)40(O,OH)112•21H2O, monoclinic, associated with aegirine, andradite, barian orthoclase, celsian, and grossular at the Shiromaru Mine, Tama District, near Okutama, Tokyo, Japan, the name is for the locality.

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Urusovite

Cu[AlAsO5], monoclinic, from the fumarole at the Great Tolbachik fissure eruption, Kamchatka, Russia associated with dolerophanite, euchlorine, hematite, piypite, ponomarevite, sylvite, and tenorite, the name is for Vadim Sergeevich Urusov of Moscow State University.

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Zincowoodwardite

[Zn1-xAlx(OH)2][(SO4)x/2(H2O)n], trigonal. Type locality:found in the co-type specimen of glaucocerinite from Laurion, Greece and with glaucocerinite, natroglaucocerinite, and zaccagnaite at the Hilarion Mine, Kamariza near Laurion; known from the Christiana Mine at Kamarizan with hemimorphite and serpierite, the name is for the composition.

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Arakiite

(Zn,Mn)(Mn,Mg)12(Fe,Al)2(AsO3)(AsO4)2(OH)23, monoclinic, type locality is Langban, Sweden associated with spectular hematite, name is for crystallographer Takaharu Araki.

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Chromceladonite

KCrMg(Si4O10)(OH)2, monoclinic, type locality is Padma uranium-vanadium deposit, southern Karelia, Russia, of metasomatic-hydrothermal origin and associated with calcite, chromphyllite, dolomite, hematite, quartz, roscoelite, and uraninite, apparently known from other localities, name is for the association with celadonite.

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Juanitaite

(Cu,Ca,Fe)10Bi(AsO4)4(OH)11+2H2O, tetragonal,  type locality is Gold Hill Mine, Tooele County, Utah associated with azurite, conichalcite, connellite, gold, mixite, quartz, and tyrolite, name is for the discoverer Juanita Curtis.

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Litvinskite

Na2([],Na,Mn)Zr[Si6O12(OH,O)6], monoclinic, type locality is Mount Alluaiv, Lovozero alkaline
massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia in a hyperagpaitic pegmatite associated with aegirine, eudialyte, lomonosovite, mangan-neptunite, microcline, nepheline, sodalite, and ussingite and replaced by gaidonnayite and terskite, name is for former crystallographer Galina P. Litvinskaya (1920-1994) of Moscow State University.

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Remondite-(La)

Na3(La,Ce,Ca)3(CO3)5, monoclinic, type locality is Mount Koashva, Khibiny alkaline massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia where it occurs as a late stage hydrothermal mineral in a hyperagpaitic pegmatite associated with aegirine, barytolamprophyllite, cancrisilite, catapleiite, lomonosovite, microcline, natrolite, natron, pectolite, sodalite, thermonatrite, and villiaumite.

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Bakhchisaraitsevite

Na2Mg5[PO4]4+7H2O, monoclinic, associated with bobierrite, chlorite, collinsite,  juonniite, nastrophite, and pyrite in veins of vuggy dolomite carbonatite at the Kovdor massif, Lola Peninsula, Russia, the name is for crystallographer Alexander Yu. Bakhchisaraitsev (1947-1998).

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Ercitite

NaMnPO4(OH)(H2O)2, monoclinic, an overgrowth on collinsite-fairfieldite, whitlockite, and other phosphates on a fracture surface cutting an altered nodule of Lithiophilite at the Tanco pegmatite, Bernic Lake, southeastern Manitoba, Canada, the name is for mineralogist T. Scot Ercit of the Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa.

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Fluorannite

KFe++3AlSi3O10F2, monoclinic, associated with quartz, hafnian zircon, tantalite-columbite, fluorite and magnetite. Locality is the western suburb of Suzhou City, about 80 Km west of Shangai, People's Republic of China. Name reflects the dominance of fluorine and relationship with annite.

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Krettnichite

PbMn+++2(VO4)2(OH)2, monoclinic, in vugs in a hydrothermal manganite–quartz vein. Associated minerals are: manganite, quartz, barite, ankerite, mottramite, barian brackebuschite and cuprian-cobaltoan pyrobelonite. Dumps of the manganite deposit at Krettnich, Saarland, Germany.
Named after the type locality.

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Levinsonite-(Y)

(Y,Nd,Ce)Al(SO4)2(C2O4)•12H2O, monoclinic, in an evaporite assemblage. Associated minerals are: coskrenite-(Ce), zugshunstite-(Ce), melanterite, halotrichite, pickeringite, apjohnite, epsomite and
other hydrated sulfates. Locality: Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, U.S.A. Named  after Prof. Alfred A. Levinson (b. 1927), University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, originator of the internationally used nomenclature for rare-earth-element minerals.

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Schiavinatoite

(Nb,Ta)BO4, tetragonal, in a highly evolved granitic pegmatite. Associated minerals (in addition to
the normal rock-forming minerals of granitic pegmatites) are: béhierite, rhodizite, spodumene, elbaite–liddicoatite series of the tourmaline group, danburite, cesian beryl, pollucite, manganoan fluorapatite, uranoan microlite, xenotime, monazite, manganocolumbite, manganotantalite, hübnerite and hafnian zircon. Schiavinatoite occurs intimately associated with béhierite, (Ta,Nb)BO4.
Locality: Antsongombato, south of Betafo, some tens of kilometers south of the village of
Mahaiza, Madagascar. Named  after Giuseppe Schiavinato (1915–1996), Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Milan, Italy, who helped the development of mineralogical sciences in Italy.

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Woodallite

Mg6Cr2(OH)16Cl2•4H2O, trigonal, in lizardite+brucite-altered dunite in a large, low-grade disseminated nickel sulfide deposit. Associated minerals are: chromite. lizardite, iowaite, pentlandite, magnetite, tochilinite and brucite. Locality: The Mount Keith deposit, 94 km NNE of Leinster in the northeastern Goldfields district, Western Australia, Australia.

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Zugshunstite-(Ce)

(Ce,Nd,La)Al(SO4)2(C2O4)•12H2O, monoclinic,  in an evaporite assemblage. Associated minerals are: coskrenite-(Ce), levinsonite-(Y), melanterite, halotrichite, pickeringite, apjohnite, epsomite and other hydrated sulfates. Locality: Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, U.S.A. Named after the locality; it is the authors’ best approximation of an anglicized equivalent to words used by the Cherokee Indians to refer to the Great Smoky Mountains (Tsu-g-shv-sdi).

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