Minerals are typically formed when molten rock, or magma, cools, or by separating out of mineral-rich water, such as that in underground caverns. In general, mineral particles are small ...

Despite an increasing number of women involved with earth sciences, over 94 percent of new minerals have been named after men ...

Primary minerals form at elevated temperatures from cooling magma during the original solidification of rock or during metamorphism, and they are usually derived from igneous and metamorphic rocks ...

Emproto combed through nearly 6,000 mineral names and found that while 50.7% of all minerals are named after men, just 2.8% ...

according to a survey of over 5,900 mineral names.keeps track on mineral discoveries. When mineralogists believe they have found a new mineral, they send their data and proposed name to the Commission ...