the Names of new minerals pohodyashin and hungerit. The first name was given in honour of the merchant and industrialist from Verkhoturye Maxim Mihailovich Pohodyashin, who lived in the XVIII century. The second named after the still alive Yuri Vladimirovich Hunger historian of the Northern Urals, a mining engineer-surveyor, Director Krasnotur Museum.
Found minerals 40-year-old Amateur geologist from Severouralsk Michael Gypsy on the vorontsovskoe gold Deposit. By profession he is a rescuers, the assistant detachment commander. Mineralogy enjoys more than 15 years, on the basis of his collection in the city created a mineralogical Museum, which houses nearly a thousand samples. In addition, a collection of minerals deposits Vorontsov, Mikhail was transferred to the Ural geological Museum of uggu.
– I regularly monitor the geological situation in this career: what kind of rock mass is extracted there. All that is of interest, sent to research colleagues – he said “RG”.
the Samples, which were opened two new minerals, Michael Gypsy found in 2016. Immediately sent to Moscow mineralogical Museum Fermanagh Anatoly Kasatkin.
– When conducted electron probe analysis, it became clear that the chemical composition is unique, the minerals new. Then sent to the laboratory. The researchers say that work is directly deciphering the structure was very complicated. Even wanted to stop studying, but Emil Makovicky from the University of Copenhagen, a very serious scientist, one of the best in the business, brought the study to the end, – says Mikhail.
by the Way, annually in the world opening about one hundred new minerals, several dozen of them – in Russia.
