eleonorite Min.
(ˌɛlɪəˈnɔəraɪt)
[ad. G. eleonorit (A. Nies 1880, in Ber. d. Oberhessischen Ges. f. Natur- u. Heilkunde XIX. 111), f. Eleonore, woman's name used as the name of a mine near Giessen.]
A name formerly given to a supposed variety of beraunite.
| 1881 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. XL. 525 New Minerals from the Eleonora Mine in the Dünsberg near Giessen... 1. Eleonorite... This mineral occurs, together with strengite, in an isolated block of brown hæmatite. 1923 Nature 24 Nov. 779/1 A very well-defined specimen of the variety of beraunite known as eleonorite, found at the iron and manganese mine of Roury Glen, Glandore, Co. Cork, consists of a mass of diverging fibrous crystals of a reddish-brown colour, between walls of limonite. The fibres are elongated in the direction of the b axis and show very strong pleochroism. |