| Historic Mineral Name |
Current Alias |
|
|
| Alumina |
= Aluminum oxide |
| Antimonite |
= Stibnite |
| Antimony glance |
= Stibnite |
| Barytes |
= Barite |
| Blue John |
= Fluorite (purple/blue) |
| Blackjack |
= Sphalerite |
| Brimstone |
= Sulphur |
| Calamine |
= Hemimorphite (+
Smithsonite, Hydrozincite oxide zinc ores) |
| Calcium Tungstate |
= Scheelite |
| Calcspar |
= Calcite |
| Cave Cotton |
= Gypsum |
| Chrome Mica |
= Fuchsite and/or
Mariposite |
| Copper Carbonate-blue
(or Blue Copper Ore) |
= Azurite |
| Copper Carbonate-green |
= Malachite |
| Copper Glance |
= Chalcocite |
| Cobalt Bloom |
= Erythrite |
| Electrum |
= Amalgum of native gold
& silver |
| Emery |
= Spinel |
| Epsom Salt |
= Magnesium Sulphate |
| Fool's Gold |
= Usually chalcopyrite
but may be pyrite or sometimes sericite |
| Flint |
= Silica |
| Fluorspar |
= Fluorite |
| Glauber's Salt |
= Magnesium Sulphate |
| Green Lead Ore |
= Pyromorphite (Apatite
(Pb5(PO4)5Cl)) |
| Gray Antimony |
= Stibnite |
| Gray Copper |
= Tetrahedrite |
| Horseflesh Ore |
= Bornite |
| Herkimer Diamond |
= Quartz crystal |
| Heavy Spar |
= Barite (or Feldspar) |
| Iron Glance |
= Hematite (specularite) |
| Iron Spar |
= Siderite |
| Iceland Spar |
= Calcite |
| Kupfernickel |
= Niccolite |
| Lodestone |
= Magnetite |
| Mispickel |
= Arsenopyrite |
| Mountain Leather or
Mountain Cork |
= Weathered Asbestos |
| Molybdenum Bloom |
= Powellite |
| Nickel Bloom |
= Annabergite |
| Nickel Glance |
= Gersdorffite |
| Peacock Copper |
= Bornite |
| Ruby Silver |
= Pyrargyrite |
| Salt Cake |
= Sodium sulphate |
| Silver Glance |
= Tetrahedrite |
| Silicate of Copper |
= Chrysocolla |
| Spathic Iron |
= Siderite |
| Sulphide of Copper &
Silver |
= Stromeyerite (50% Cu
& 32% Ag) |
| Tiff |
= Calcite or Barite |
| Tinstone |
= Cassiterite |
| Titanic Iron Ore |
= Ilmenite |
| Tripoli |
= Diatomite |
| Wad |
= Manganese Oxide |
| White Lead Ore |
= Cerussite |
| White Pyrite |
= Marcasite |
| Wood Tin |
= Botryoidal Cassiterite |
| Yellow Copper |
= Chalcopyrite |
| Yellow Lead Ore |
= Wulfenite |
| Yellow Arsenic |
= Orpiment |
| Zinc Blende |
= Sphalerite |
| Zinc Spar |
= Smithsonite |
