Portal:Minerals/Did you know/11


 * ... that when first noted, arsenoclasite appeared very similar to sarkinite (pictured), but with one perfect cleavage?
 * ... that caryopilite was named for the Greek words for walnut and felt?
 * ... that the mineral bobfergusonite has been found only in Canada and Argentina?
 * ... that while the mineral magnesiopascoite was discovered in Utah, the two cotype specimens are in a museum in California?