Geographic Minerals

As they descend, melting, through our planet’s atmosphere, iron meteorites are thick, heavy, and frequently fashioned into odd or even stunning patterns. Siderites, also known…

Meteorites are the final step of this sort of space rock’s life. The rocks were meteors before they became meteorites. They were meteoroids before they…

Nsutite is a manganese oxide mineral with formula: (Mn4+1-xMn2+xO2-2x(OH)2x where x = 0.06-0.07). It is a major manganese oxide that occurs in mineable quantities in…

A meteorite, sometimes known as a ‘shooting star’ or a ‘falling star,’ is a solid piece of debris from an object in deep space that…

Carbonado, also called as “black diamond,” looks like charcoal and is named after the Portuguese word for “burned.” It is one of the most difficult…

Nosean, also known as noselite, is a mineral of the feldspathoid group with the formula: Na8Al6Si6O24(SO4). H2O. It is a mineral of the sodalite group,…

Northupite is an uncommon evaporite mineral, with the chemical formula Na3Mg(CO3)2Cl. It is an isometric-diploidal mineral containing carbon, chlorine, magnesium, oxygen, and sodium. It is…

Normandite is a brittle orange-brown sorosilicate mineral discovered in 1997 by Charles Normand (born 1963), of Montreal. It is a member of the cuspidine group…

Norbergite is a mineral in the humite group. It is a nesosilicate mineral with the formula Mg3(SiO4)(F,OH)2. It forms a polysomatic series with chondrodite, humite,…

Nontronite is an iron(III)-rich clay mineral in the smectite group. It is a pale yellow or greenish clay mineral composed primarily of hydrous iron silicate…

Nobleite is a rare borate mineral with the chemical formula CaB6O9(OH)2·3H2O. It is a transparent mineral containing calcium, boron, hydroxide, and water. It was discovered…

Nitratine or nitratite, also known as cubic niter, soda niter, or Chile saltpeter, is a mineral, the naturally occurring form of sodium nitrate, NaNO3. It…