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What's in a mineral name? Not very many women, study finds
Another mineral, dewindtite, was named after a budding 23-year-old geologist named Jean Charles Louis De Windt, who drowned while swimming in a quarry. Notably absent from this list are any ...
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LIST: Minerals you can find in Central Virginia for National ‘Collect Rocks’ Day
For geology buffs, Virginia is a great destination, as quite a few varieties of minerals have been discovered in the ...