† daourite Min.
Also daurite.
[Named from Daouria in Siberia, where found.]
An obsolete synonym of rubellite or red tourmaline.
| 1802 Bournon in Phil. Trans. XCII. 316 The tourmalin..of Siberia, to which the names of rubellite, of daourite, and of Siberite, have been successively given. 1804 R. Jameson Min. I. 130 Daurite. |