Thortveitite

Thortveitite

Thortveitite is a mineral consisting of scandium yttrium silicate (Sc,Y)2Si2O7. It is the primary source of scandium. Occurrence is in granitic pegmatites. It was named after Olaus Thortveit, Norwegian engineer. It is greyish-green, black or grey in color.

A transparent gem quality example was found in 2004, and reported in "The Journal of Gemmology", 2008 Volume 31.

ee also

*List of minerals
*List of minerals named after people

References

* [http://webmineral.com/data/Thortveitite.shtml Webmineral]
* [http://www.mindat.org/min-3950.html Mindat]

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