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GeneralJolyonralphite?

17th Jul 2017 05:30 UTCOT. Ljøstad Expert

To my knowledge there is no mineral that is named after Jolyon Ralph, the founder of this FANTASTIC website. No one in the Galaxy deserves this better than him!! I look foreward to read about jolyonralphite or ralphite or hopefully both.

17th Jul 2017 07:59 UTCAlfredo Petrov Manager

And the type locality should be the town of Mindat, Burma.

19th Jul 2017 00:28 UTCMartin Rich Expert

BTW, a silly question: Is brexit(e) a new mineral and is it confirmed? :)

19th Jul 2017 00:31 UTCChester S. Lemanski, Jr.

We are also lacking Mindatorgite!

19th Jul 2017 10:47 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager

Sure Chet but be carefull for the gramatics, mindatorgite or mindatorgyte? ( really miss these emoticons )

19th Jul 2017 21:13 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

Knowing my luck the mineral would be a guano-derived clay that gets discredited after a year :)

20th Jul 2017 09:45 UTCAlysson Rowan Expert

Mindatdotorgite, surely.

20th Jul 2017 10:40 UTCPeter Nancarrow 🌟 Expert

There is scope for several new species in this vein (pun intended!); the names mindatite, mindatorgite, jolyonite, ralphite, jolyonralphite and jolyonandkatyaralphite are still unallocated.

As for brexite, that is unlikely to be confirmed in the near future, as not only is its very existence still very much in question, but its characteristics are so poorly defined that it may turn out to be a very different species from what its original proposers envisaged.

Pete N.

20th Jul 2017 12:09 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

I suspect brexite is synonymous with fubarite

21st Jul 2017 19:38 UTCLászló Horváth Manager

Knowing my luck the mineral would be a guano-derived clay that gets discredited after a year :)

If that the kind of mineral somebody wants to name after you, you can always decline.

21st Jul 2017 19:59 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

> If that the kind of mineral somebody wants to name after you, you can always decline.

I'm not really that picky :)