Mineral - Aerugite

Name and first discovery : Named after the Latin word "aerugo" for "copper rust," due to its intense green color, often typical of secondary copper minerals. The mineral was first described in 1858 by Carl Wilhelm Bergemann. He discovered it in a sample from the area around Johanngeorgenstadt in the Ore Mountains, which he had received from the mineralogist Adam August Krantz. Krantz, in turn, had found the sample in a collection purchased in Schneeberg in 1857.

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Abbreviation : Aru

literature

Dana, J. D., & Dana, E. S. (1892). The system of mineralogy of James Dwight Dana, 1837-1868: descriptive mineralogy . J. Wiley & sons.