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GeneralBest and Worst mineral names

21st Dec 2010 20:22 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

Ok, to start the holiday spirit here on mindat.org, what are your most favourite and least favourite mineral NAMES.


Note, I'm not interested in favourite minerals or least favourite, just whether you like the names or not!


For me, my favourite used to be Hexatestibiopanickelite, which is a truly awesome name. Unfortunately it's no longer a valid mineral species, so I'll stick with my second favourite, the magical sounding Kosmochlor.


My least favourite has to be the recent name 'Eurekadumpite' Ugh.


Jolyon

21st Dec 2010 20:47 UTCHarjo Neutkens Manager

This time of the year I only have one favourite mineral name: Santite :-)

The rest of the year it's Kolarite, because it sounds like a Japanese ordering a diet coke...

21st Dec 2010 20:49 UTCScott Sadlocha

Well, this topic will end up being a heck of a lot of fun!


Jolyon, I am with you on the Eurekadumpite.


I tend to not like mineral names with an entire person's name or a location in the name of the mineral. A first or last name, I can understand, but the entire thing just sounds silly to me. Nothing against the people who the minerals are named after, of course, I just think it sounds kind of corny to have something like "Johndoeite" rather than "Johnite". And if one of the person's names is already in use in a mineral, then it is time to come up with something better than the full name, while still sounding professional.


As far as favorites go, I am not sure, I would have to think about it a bit I guess. I have always liked mineral names that don't follow the "ite" naming convention, minerals such as cinnabar, copper, realgar, etc. Still, with regard to the "ites" I have always liked titanite (not sphene though).


I am sure there are quite a few others I can come up with.

21st Dec 2010 21:03 UTCRobert Meyer Manager

Kinoshitalite, either way depending on mood, and with apologies to Dr. Kinoshita.

21st Dec 2010 21:09 UTCGerhard Brandstetter Expert

i love creedite - it alway reminds me what i need.

not so nice is weeksite - if you translate the german spelling it would mean "wankerite" in english.....

21st Dec 2010 21:12 UTCEugene & Sharon Cisneros Expert

My warped sense of the world favors Eurekadumpite. Kinoshitalite is down the toilet by comparison.


Gene

21st Dec 2010 21:21 UTCMatt King

Here's my list of favourites:


Bullachite

Beaverite

Belovite

Dickite

Fukalite

Welshite


:-)

21st Dec 2010 21:34 UTCSteve Hardinger 🌟 Expert

I never liked baryte. Some hoe reminds me of the lost mineral barite.

21st Dec 2010 21:39 UTCDavid Bernstein Expert

Don't really have a favorite name. My least favorite would be Cummingtonite. I always thought that name was a bit daft, even if it was discovered in Cummington, Massachusets.


The other least favorite is the name of a group of minerals-the Smectite group.

21st Dec 2010 21:40 UTCJeff Weissman Expert

Telling people I have a "parisite" in my collection is always a great conversation starter


Lavendulan, cuprosklodowskite, and moolooite are some of my favorite names

21st Dec 2010 22:20 UTCRoger Lang Manager

Hehe ...

for the elder statesmen amongst us .. if peeing hurts like fire


Pyropissite ;)


cheers

Roger

21st Dec 2010 22:26 UTCJason Evans

Funny this thread should be started as a few days ago i was bored so started looking for funny mineral names, i found Eurakdumpite, which the childish side of me found rather funny! my dad has a mineral named after him, Howardevansite, well ok its named after some Dr Howard Evans of the USGS, but im still jealous that my dad gets a mineral with the same name as him, i'll have to make do with just Evansite.

21st Dec 2010 22:59 UTCRonald John Gyllenhammer Expert

Best: Swedenborgite, it reminds me of some evil Swedish associate of the Borg from Star Trek Next Generation!


Worst: Preobrazhenskite, just try and say this ten times as fast as you can...

21st Dec 2010 23:27 UTCStephen Eglinton

To me the species name gives minerals that human connection, as opposed to the chemical formula. I have always disliked the renaming of Manganotantalite to Tantalite-Mn, it just looses that human touch.


Steve.

21st Dec 2010 23:27 UTCDean Allum Expert

My all time favorite mineral name is Zippeite!


Cylindrite is the most accurate mineral name.

Ramsdellite sounds like a goat's desert.

Cinnabar is where you go for cinnamon rolls.

Illite is almost a bar-code.

Alum-K reminds me of my aunt.


-Dean Allum

21st Dec 2010 23:33 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert

Not a week goes by when I declare, "You are making that up!" when Reiner tells me of some mineral or other... my favourite so far is Hauchecornite - pronounced, perhaps erroneously in our household, not unlike "hoochie-coo"


My least favourite, because I trip over the spelling EVERY time is fluorororororichterite - See? (:P)

22nd Dec 2010 00:00 UTCPeter Nancarrow 🌟 Expert

Amongst my favourites is moschellandsbergite; just something about the sound of it. Another is tobermorite; I know it's named after the town on Mull, but everytime I hear it I think of chocolate!


I like chemical mnemonics which sound pleasant e.g. bazirite and cavansite, but some just don't; e.g. nacaphite


My pet hates are those which sound as if they should be mnemonics but aren't; e.g. molybdomenite, phosgenite, zinkenite, which do not contain Mo, P, or Zn.


Pete N.

22nd Dec 2010 04:41 UTCSteven Kuitems Expert

Right now my least favorite species name is epidote-Pb because of the gross disrespect done to the time honored original name of hancockite. No new chemistry, no new stuctural basis, ignoring its consistent strontium content and ignoring the human history to honor Mr. E.P. Hancock.

My favorite is welshite which honors my mineral mentor Bill Welsh for whom I am grateful for his patience in teaching me about the joy of studying and collecting minerals as the gems of the creation around us.

Steve.

22nd Dec 2010 05:12 UTCCasper Voogt

Apatite - because it's a major part of tooth enamel.

Erudite - because it doesn't exist and should

Marmite - because it's tasty

22nd Dec 2010 05:38 UTCStephanie Martin

It's tough to keep the list short... it's easy to pick on those unusual uncommon minerals, so I will stick to some that are more common


I always thought corundum was missing an i, it would sound much more robust as corundium

quartz, always so drab, needs another syllable too, like quartzon

aragonite - sounds pretty in Spanish but not so much in English

orpiment - that's what I just stepped in


Ones I like are vesuvianite, molybdenite, zircon, topaz, neptunite, uranium (almost anything with ium)


I won't mention the x-rated ones, trying to keep this a family show! lol


cheers

steph

22nd Dec 2010 07:47 UTCHans Kloster

Carlsbergite is an advertisement for beer.

Potasium-ferrimagnesio-sodanagaite and similar are advertisement for chemicals.

Ellingsenite is the honour of the only member of Stonefriends in Copenhagen, who got the honour.

Neptunite in honour of the God of Sea.

22nd Dec 2010 09:25 UTCMarcus Voigt

Best ( for me): Balkanite, because I love the wonderful & "wild" bulgarian Mountains.


Worst: Marcasite ! (td)


Merry Christmas and a sucessful good new 2011


Special Thanks to Jolyon and the mindat Team


Marcus

22nd Dec 2010 10:57 UTCRick Turner

I would weigh in with 'asisite' as rating a chuckle, at least, but I have to explain why.


The name is (should be) pronounced ah-sees-ite as the mineral is named after the locality where it was first found, the Kombat Mine, which lies in the farm Asis (ah-sees) West. The farm itself lies in what is most politely described as 'high grade scrubby desert' on the southern fringes of the Otavi mountains in Namibia. It's pretty barren, as hot as the proverbial third hell, and was pretty well devoid of anything - including vegetation, but most importantly, water. The story locally goes that the farm got it's name when the first settler - an Afrikaaner - first saw the piece of land that he'd been allocated, and said 'Ach, Sis!' - which is pronounced 'ah, sus' - and is the local expression for 'oh sh*t'. This stuck, and became 'Asis' on the maps.


The explanation of the name that you can sometimes see in the the literature - that it is named after the local (Nama) word for watering place - is simply wrong, though understandably so. The Nama word for water is 'Ais' - as in the Ai-Ais canyon, meaning burning water, an allusion to the temperature in the canyon. The word Ais is pronounced in the same way as the English word 'ice' so the canyon name is pronounced 'ay-ice'.


Merry Christmas to all!


Rick Turner

22nd Dec 2010 11:20 UTCEric D. Fritzsch 🌟

I've always liked the way cuprosklodowskite rolls off the tounge. Wad is too cacophanic.

22nd Dec 2010 14:45 UTCGerhard Niklasch Expert

Maggie Wilson Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> My least favourite, because I trip over the

> spelling EVERY time is fluorororororichterite -

> See? (:P)


Gee, that's definitely an advanced one.... I can't even spell Flourite! 8-)


No strong preferences on my part, but I have a soft spot for some of those old learnéd alternate names. "Vesuvianite" sure rolls off the tongue so smoothly, but it pales against a sharp-edged, well-terminated "Idokras!" - which sounds even more definite in its Græco-German form than "Idocrase".


Season's Greetings!

Gerhard

22nd Dec 2010 15:52 UTCAlex Homenuke 🌟 Expert

I love the simple names - gold, silver, platinum...$

Also widgiemoothalite (sp?) - the Aussies do have the catchy names


Edit - widgiemoolthalite - should have looked it up before posting

22nd Dec 2010 15:58 UTCRudy Bolona Expert

I love the name GLAUCODOT.

22nd Dec 2010 18:33 UTCAnonymous User

Pre-IMA names, the simpler the better, are my favorites. I understand and appreciate the need to regulate mineral naming, but building a critter by committee doesn't result in graceful names. Unless by accident.

22nd Dec 2010 20:55 UTCJohn Magnasco Manager

Like: Lizardite. Really a cool name in that the mineral is often found in chameleon-like colors of green, it is named after "The Lizard" peninsula in Cornwall and it is frequently a major constituent of Serpentine which was independently named, ironically, after a fellow reptile. Oh, and of course, Serpentine is still California's state rock.


Dislike: Chloro-potassic-ferri-magnesiotaramite and all of the others following this ridiculous naming convention. I want a NAME that I can call the mineral and then look up the formula and structure information when I need to.

22nd Dec 2010 21:34 UTCAlfredo Petrov Manager

I really must thank John for bringing chloropotassicferrimagnesiotaramite to my attention. I love it! I used to think protomanganoferroanthophyllite was the longest species name, but chloropotassicferrimagnesiotaramite beats it. Well, the IMA is about to come out with a new amphibole naming scheme, so we'll see whether these names survive or not.

22nd Dec 2010 22:01 UTCRudy Bolona Expert

Speaking of mineral names; The other day I mailed a parcel to Norway with my usual selection of rare earth minerals I have collected in Colorado. I had to fill out a customs form. The postmaster asked me exactly what was in the box. I ranted off: SAMARSKITE, MONAZITE, AESCHYNITE, THORITE in a loud voice. She thought I was speaking Norwegian. Everyone at the post office gave me a weird look and one lady started laughing. It's funny, 99.99% of people out there have no clue that such things exist on Earth.X(

22nd Dec 2010 23:02 UTCWalter Kellogg

Favorite - Cavansite - tells you what it's made of.


least favorite - Ferri-clinoferroholmquistite - come on, this is just too dang long - and on to top it off - the IMA approved the name it even though the mineral is only theoretical and has never actually been found to be naturally occuring.

23rd Dec 2010 02:22 UTCMark & Linda Mahlum

Favorite- celestine


Least favorite- celestite

23rd Dec 2010 02:25 UTCMark & Linda Mahlum

Linda asks, "so what is your favorite tasting mineral?" She likes coprolite. (I didn't have the heart to tell her that isn't a mineral.)

23rd Dec 2010 03:00 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

Not sure about cavansite, too much like a caravan site for me.


I think Mike Rumsey's away for Christmas, but I know he's particularly fond of the name hydrombobomkulite. What's not to like.

23rd Dec 2010 04:36 UTCMichael Adamowicz Expert

Hail


Most favorite is Uranothorite... it sounds tough. Just say it, doesn't it sound awesome>:D<?

Second choice is Uraninite. Just say it" I got a piece of Uraninite", now that gets peoples attention, then the worried looks all around:).

Third favorite is Aquamarine, it is a great name. You got to admit it, its a great name isn't it? Its a name that really bring an image to your mind. Most mineral names conjure little about how the mineral is to look, with Aquamarine you see what you expect, with a name like that.


Least favorite: Specularite. It sounds like they were not sure about the mineral when they named it. Annoying name. Really, really annoying.


Michal.

23rd Dec 2010 04:55 UTCCraig Mercer

None that I really don't like, but I do like these few oldies, Wiluite...lol, makes me laugh every time. And Zippeite sounds like some sort of fast acting cleaning agent. Whewellite, that's the word commonly used to put a holt to digging for the day. And finally one I always thought was missing (Tonite) ;) A good fun thread Jolyon.

23rd Dec 2010 05:48 UTCGreg Toomey

My favorite? Azurite - descriptive and it flows off of the tongue like poetry (important as its meaning is very accurate and descriptive, and verbally

it is very pleasing to the senses, and a word is a "speech sound"). I do like Leaverite - but I strike it down for being a vernacular and unscientific word...but, dang, it is a great word!

My least favorite - Hemimorphite. Call it the politically correct American in me, but it sounds like a word an American wingnut politician would cite as an example of the degradation of Western Civilization, or, in American speak, "UnAmerican!!" I don't need that crap in my apolitical mineral world!


Greg

23rd Dec 2010 06:46 UTCBen Schumer

My most favorite would have to be erdite; it just sounds pleasant.


Other favorites include cryolite and phosgenite because they sound tough and pitchblende (OK, it's a varietal...) and plumbotsumite because they roll off of the tongue well. The German designation "uranglimmer" (for autunite, torbernite, zeunerite, etc.) also sounds neat, like some kind of uranium disco.


Least favorite in order: tsnigriite, kinoshitalite, and walpurgite (it reminds me of the sound of a compressed air jet under water).

23rd Dec 2010 07:00 UTCRobert Simonoff

Favorite: Mbobomkulite (and the type locality name is my favorite as well

Least Favorite: Any mineral starting with Arseno


The least favorite may seem dumb, but it is because so many people mispronounce Arseno as Arsenio, like it was names after a comedian or something. Arseniosiderite ... ugh!

23rd Dec 2010 07:54 UTCHarjo Neutkens Manager

I also like Apatite, makes me think about coming into a restaurant with a big Apatite; "O sir, you've got a big Apatite!".

Also Poppiite, isn't that what the Afghani grow on their fields?

Titanite too, as in "no, sorry honey, I only touch one tit-a-nite..."

23rd Dec 2010 08:51 UTCDavid Bruno

childrenite, just sounds completely wrong to me

23rd Dec 2010 13:31 UTCRuth Raubenheimer

Where does the'--pissite' came from??

23rd Dec 2010 13:50 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert

Brilliant Evan!! Bravo!

25th Dec 2010 00:37 UTCNorman King 🌟 Expert

I guess this thread has died down. I've been too busy with other things to add my two cents worth, but things are calming down now--just a quiet Christmas eve for us.


I'd like to add my name to the list of those who are partial to eurekadumpite and cummingtonite. It seems people either love those or hate them.


Some of my favorite names I haven't seen mentioned are kobokoboite, fangite, hummerite, margaritasite, and mushistonite (you know--mushy-stone-ite).


Names that should be, but aren't, include one similar to leaverite called expensivite. But the "ought-to-be" name that is my favorite is (drum roll): favorite!


Once I looked up "brass" in mindat, and found this casual mineral name (look it up!): "brass balls." It is reported to be a synonym of pyrite, referring to nodular pyrite. Is someone pulling my leg?


Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

26th Dec 2010 19:35 UTCAdam Kelly

My favorite Adamite!

Alexandrite is my second favorite, it just sounds regal, and is rare and beautiful.

Least favorite... Wad, I mean, is that the best they can do?

26th Dec 2010 22:00 UTCHarjo Neutkens Manager

Quizzzzz......: It's a nice rare mineral from the Harz mountains AND you can comfortably carry all your gear in it after you find it, of course: Samsonite (:D

23rd Dec 2013 04:02 UTCLucky_318

I was just looking through google and I came across this - Cumingtonite, it is a mineral commonley known as magnesium iron silicate hydroxide. It is named after the place it was discovered Cummington, Masschatuses

23rd Dec 2013 07:42 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager

Not sure what my favorite is, although I enjoy the melodic way nordenskiödine rolls off the tongue. I also have a fondness for cesium-kupletskite... two "s/z" sounds in the prefix paired with two "k" sounds in the root, that when combined, has a sound that can be part of a mineralogist-clown's comedy routine (now I just have to wait until someone discovers "cesium-niobokupletskite", which has even more comedic sounds strung together).


I don't mind the sometimes long chemical-list type mineral names others here don't care for... to me they're unpretentious, saying what they mean and meaning what they say... take potassic-chloro-ferropargasite, for instance... with only knowledge of the periodic table and some Finnish geography, one instantly knows it has Cl, K, Fe2+ and the TL for the eponymous root is Pargas... no fuss, no muss, and wow, packed with so much info! And of course, I'm a fan of franckeite... this one should be obvious... :)


My least favorite are the 10% or 20% or so that I simply find unpronounceable. I realize that list is highly subjective, and likely a function of one's familiarity with the language the name was derived from. I'm also not a fan of false-friends that are similar enough in spelling or pronunciation that confusion can arise, like berthierine and berthierite, reinerite and renierite, or sericite and cerussite. As previously noted, minerals with the appearance of an element, when that element actually isn't present (in some attempted clever but ultimately confusing nod to a Greek or Latin root) I also consider unfortunate name choices.

23rd Dec 2013 14:12 UTCReiner Mielke Expert

Hello Norman,


"Once I looked up "brass" in mindat, and found this casual mineral name (look it up!): "brass balls." It is reported to be a synonym of pyrite, referring to nodular pyrite. Is someone pulling my leg? " No I think they are pulling on something else. LOL

23rd Dec 2013 15:21 UTCLászló Horváth Manager

I intensely dislike anything with sodic or potassic in it (amphiboles). Why not natro and kali instead like all other non amphibole minerals?


How about lovely names like kukharenkoite, qaqarssukite, daqingshanite?

23rd Dec 2013 15:33 UTCLászló Horváth Manager

Two more nice musical sounding names: bakhchisaraitsevite and zvyagintsevite

23rd Dec 2013 15:38 UTCEd Clopton 🌟 Expert

Maggie Wilson, my wife regularly tells me I'm making things up when I mention obscure mineral species.


One of my favorites has always been strashimirite for its exoticness (exocitiy?), although (thank you Peter Nancarrow for reminding me) moschellandsbergite is hard to beat for euphoniousness.


There are lots of candidates for least favorite, but the adamite-eveite pair and scrutinyite have always struck me as particularly silly names.


The spell checker is having a grand time with this message--look at all the red squiggles!

23rd Dec 2013 16:01 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert

E.L.!!


I, Maggie Wilson, Reiner's wife say the same thing! You are making that up!!!


It's funny, though, now into my 6th year of mineral collecting, the names don't sound as odd as they once did!

23rd Dec 2013 16:49 UTCChester S. Lemanski, Jr.

Eurekadumpite has to be the absolute worst terminology for a mineral species which can ever be considered, let alone actually be applied as a scientific name for a mineral. Motukoreaite is a close second.


The nicest mineral name, in my opinion, is Turquoise.


Thank goodness that there was never a new mineral species found in the boron mineralization in Sodom village, New York (lost serendibite locality). Paul Moore once quipped that if one were ever to be found, he would readily name it sodomite!

23rd Dec 2013 19:41 UTCTom Tucker

Sorry Chet, but I think eurekadumpite is a great species name. It presents an obvious and direct tie to the type locality.

Just taking the list of new species that Marco posted today, there are 33 new species and I'm heartened that the great majority of the new names being very acceptable. The exceptions, on my "really bad mineral names" list would be: ferro-ferri-nybøite, Hydroxycalciomicrolite, Chromo-alumino-povondraite, Caesiumpharmacosiderite. I understand the intent of this kind of nomenclature, but as an old chemist, I don't need these systematic chemical names for mineral species. We ought to be honoring people and places with our new species names.

By far, my favorite of the new names, bluelizardite. Of course the authors could have called it something like clinonatrohydro-something-or-the-other-uranyl -Cl, but fortunately they didn't. Nice job Joe Marty, et al. Other especially appropriate names: philrothite, marshallsussmanite, and most of the other couple of dozen new names.

23rd Dec 2013 20:25 UTCeugene reynolds

hi all,,,my least favourite is eurekadumpite,because i have collected there,& never found any of it,,,favourite is quartz,,so many great locals,

and have 60 to 75 in my tn.collection gene reynolds

23rd Dec 2013 22:19 UTCEd Clopton 🌟 Expert

Oops! In my previous post I meant to be addressing Maggie Wilson, as in, "Hey Maggie Wilson: My wife regularly. . . ." Sorry about the ambiguous punctuation.

23rd Dec 2013 22:26 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert

Oh golly, Mr. Clopton - I think your punctuation is just fine... my speed reading, on the other hand could use some work!


Cheers!

24th Dec 2013 13:09 UTCChris Rayburn

Glad to see this post revived--thank you Lucky_318.


At the risk of breaking the rules, I'll put a vote in for amethyst as my favorite. Not a mineral, technically, but one of the most beautiful words in the English language.


Least favorite: Pumpellyite. There's no good reason it should grate on me so much, but it does. Sounds like a soft tissue growth.


Happy holidays everyone!

24th Dec 2013 13:35 UTCTom Tucker

I've got to like pumpellyite. I grew up with Raphael's grand-nephews in Virginia. Raphael was a senior geologist with the USGS, and wrote several significant volumes - the appellation is well deserved.

24th Dec 2013 19:21 UTCChris Rayburn

I guess I was neglecting provenance Tom--I trust Pumpellyite is justly named and Raphael earned the honor. If our places were switched, he might not be too fond of Rayburnite, and I'd understand why.

24th Dec 2013 22:28 UTCPaul Brandes 🌟 Manager

Two of my favourites had to be Tyuyamunite and Cuprosklodowskite for no other reason than this. In college a bunch of us studying for our mineralogy final decided it would be fun to try and say them five times really fast after a few adult libations, and if you messed up you had to......... well, I don't remember! :-D

25th Dec 2013 02:30 UTCDavid Garske

For some unknown reason, I've always liked cuprosklodowskite.

Dave

25th Dec 2013 09:16 UTCErik Vercammen Expert

Worst for speakers of Dutch: strontianite, because in Dutch 'stront' = 'shit'

25th Dec 2013 13:15 UTCSusan Robinson

I like pronouncing nordenskioldine, wakabayashilite, and nenadkevishite. My other favorite is a simple one: wad.



Susan Robinson

25th Dec 2013 13:29 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager

Hi all,


I dont like analcime and parkinsonite either.


Take care and best regards.


Paul.

25th Dec 2013 13:54 UTCTom Tucker

But Alfredo, it's so exactly descriptive. There are probably some other caver's terms - mostly for specific caves - that are also too descriptive for our sensibilities.
 
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