MINERAL SPECIES AND VARIETIES WITH A NAME OF SPANISH ORIGIN

ALMAGRERITE (Discredited as specie)

BREITHAUPT (1852)

The same as zincosite.

Etymology: from Sierra Almagrera (Águilas, Murcia), where the first samples were collected.

ALMERAITE (Discredited as specie)

TOMÀS, FOLCH (1914); TOMÀS (1919-1920)

It was always a doubtful specie. The authors giving a chemical composition KCl.NaCl.MgCl2.H2O, that seems indicate a melange of carnallite, sylvinite and halite.

ALMERIITE (Discredited as specie)

CALDERÓN (1910)

The same as natroalunite.

Etymology: Found in Adra, Almería province.

ANDALUSITE

WERNER (1788); HAÜY (1822); DELAFOSSE (1858)

Etymology: from Andalucía province, where Delafosse says it was found for the first time.

The samples sent to Werner proceeds from El Cardoso, locality placed, by error, in Andalucía.

It is a Hauy’s crystallographic holotype.

ARAGONITE

TORRUBIA (1754); DAVILA (1767); WERNER (1788)

Etymology: From Aragón province. The topoym must be related with the locality of Molina de Aragón, Guadalajara province, Where the first twinned samples known were coming.

BALLESTEROSITE (Discredited as variety)

SCHULZ, PAILLETTE (1849).

It’s a pyrite with some tin contents.

Etymology: Dedicated to Sr. López Ballesteros, minister and protector of mining.

BOLIVARITE

FERNÁNDEZ NAVARRO, CASTRO BAREA (1921).

Etymology: Dedicated to Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia (Madrid 1850 - México 1944), entomologist, lecturer of the Universidad de Madrid and director of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid. Some authors, by error, give the name for Simón Bolívar, Bolivia’s liberator.

CABRERITE (Variety of annabergite)

FERBER (1863); DANA (1850); DANA, BRUSH (1868).

It’s a magnesian annabergite.

Etymology: Dana proposes the name from the origin of samples, found in Sierra de La Cabrera, Almería province

CALAFATITE (Discredited as specie)

CALDERÓN 1910

The same as alunite.

Etymology: Dedicated to Juan Calafat León, from the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid, who found it in Benahadux and Gador, Almería province.

CARDOSONITE (Discredited as variety)

ASENSIO AMOR (1955), MARTÍN CARDOSO, PARGA (1934)

Phosphate of dufrenite series.

Etymology: Dedicated to Gabriel Martín Cardoso, professor of crystallography in the Universidad de Madrid.

CERVANTITE

DANA (1850); DUFRENOY (1859); ESCOSURA (1844, 1846); NARANJO (1862); MARTÍN CARDOSO (1953)

Etymology: From the locality of Cervantes, Lugo province in Galicia, where it was found.

CIENPOZUELITE (Discredited as specie)

AREITIO (1873); SPENCER (1903).

Probably a melange of glauberite and thenardite.

Etymology: Found in Consuelo mine, in Cienpozuelos, Madrid province.

CORDUBITE (Discredited as specie)

CHAVES (1924).

It’s simply an aragonite.

Etymology: From Córdoba province, where the mineral was collected.

CORONADITE

LINDGREN, HILLEBRAND (1904, 1905, 1907)

Etymology: Dedicated to Francisco Vázquez Coronado, Spanish explorer who travelled in Arizona near 1540.

ESTRAMADURITE (o EXTREMADURITA) (Discredited as specie)

ROSCOE, SCHORLEMMER (1877); THORPE (1890).

It’s an apatite or massive phosforite.

Etymology: It was found in Estramadura (sic.) (Extremadura) province.

GUADARRAMITE (Discredited as variety)

MUÑOZ DEL CASTILLO (1906); CALDERÓN (1910); MARTÍN CARDOSO (1953).

It’s purely an ilmenite

Etymology: From Sierra de Guadarrama, where it was found in San Rafael, Segovia province.

GUEJARITE (Discredited as specie)

CUMENGE (1878); FRIEDEL (1879); QUIROGA (1883).

The same as calcoestibite (wolfsbergite).

Etymology: From Güejar Sierra, near Guadix, Granada province, where it was found.

HUELVITE (Discredited as specie)

LIENAU (1903).

It’s a melange of different manganese minerals.

Etymology: From Huelva province, where are placed de deposits in which the samples where found.

IBERITE (Discredited as variety)

PRADO (1864); SVANBERG (1844).

It’s an alteration of the cordierite, probably a transit to sekaninaite.

Etymology: From Iberia (or Iberian Peninsula).

ILDEFONSITE (Discredited as variety)

HAIDINGER (1872).

The same as tantalite.

Etymology: From the locality of San Ildefonso, in the Sierra de Guadarrama.

JACINTO DE COMPOSTELA

ROEMER (1872); CANDEL (1928).

With that name are known traditionally the crystals of hematoid quartz, found in Triassic gypsum and marls of the East Spanish area.

Etymology: From Santiago de Compostela. They aren’t found in this locality (not even in Galicia community). It’s believed that they were carried to Santiago, from other localities, to be sold to the pilgrims.

JADEITE, JADE

QUIROGA (1881); ARÉVALO (1905).

This mineral is very few known in the Iberian Peninsula. Probably the samples arrived to the country from the commerce whit Orient.

Etymology: Piedra de ijada. The people supposes wealth proprieties for kidney pain. (dolor de ijada).

JAROSITE

BREITHAUPT (1852); TENNE, CALDERÓN (1902); FERBER (1864).

Etymology: From Barranco Jaroso, in Sierra Almagrera, where it was discovered by Breithaupt, in Observación, Carmen and Estrella mines.

LINARITE

GLOCKER (1839); BREITHAUPT (1852); NARANJO (1862).

Etymology: From the mining area of Linares (Andalucía), where Breithaupt discovered the samples typical of the species.

MORENOSITE

CASARES, MARTÍNEZ ALCIBAR (1851)

Etymology: Discovered in Cabo Ortegal, La Coruña province. It was dedicated to Sr. Moreno, de España (o Sr. Moreno, Spain. sic.), with no mere references.

ORUETITE (Discredited as specie)

PIÑA DE RUBÍES (1919).

The same as joseite.

Etymology: Dedicated to Domingo Orueta, spanish mineralogist, who found it in Serranía de Ronda.

QUIROGUITE (Discredited as variety)

FERNÁNDEZ NAVARRO (1895); MARTÍN CARDOSO (1953).

It’s a galenite with antimony impurities. Probably it’s the same mineral which Breithaupt refers as steinmannite.

Etymology: Dedicated to Francisco Quiroga y Rodríguez (Madrid 1853 - 1894), mineralogist, geologist and teacher of crystallography in the Universidad de Madrid.

RODALQUILARITE

SIERRA ET. ALT. (1965).

Etymology: From Rodalquilar, Almería province, where it was discovered.

RUBIESITE (Discredited as variety)

PIÑA DE RUBÍES (1920); DOELTER (1926).

A melange of sulphide, selenide and teluride of bismuth and antimony. Basically it’s a joseite.

Etymology: Dedicated to Piña de Rubies, Who studied it for the first time.

TERUELITE (Variety of dolomita)

MAESTRE (1845); QUIROGA (1873); CHAVES (1891).

Dolomite with a minor iron, typical of the Triassic gypsum.

Etymology: From the town of Teruel. The first crystals found where from the Barranco del Salobral, more or less at three kilometres from Teruel.

VILLAMANINITE

SCHOELLER, POWELL (1919, 1920, 1921); THOMPSON (1921)

Etymology: From Villamanín, León province (Los Cármenes mine). It was discovered in this locality.

ZARATITE

CASARES, MARTÍNEZ ALCIBAR (1851); CASARES (1853)

Etymology: From Sr. Ortíz de Zarate, minister for spanish government who was a defender of mining.