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Name and first discovery : Named after the Latin word "aerugo" for "copper rust," due to its intense green color, which is often typical of secondary copper minerals. The mineral was first described in 1858 by Carl Wilhelm Bergemann. He discovered it on a sample from the vicinity of 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 he had purchased in Schneeberg in 1857.
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.
