Older variants are listed for historical use only. Please only use the official IMA–CNMNC symbol. Boltonite was introduced in 1835 by Charles Upham Shepard, while glinkit was named in 1847 by Romanovski.Īs of 2021 there are now IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols (abbreviations) for each mineral species, useful for tables and diagrams. Named forsterite in 1824 by Serve-Dieu Abailard "Armand" Lévy in honor of Adolarius Jacob Forster, German mineral collector and mineral dealer, who variously resided in England and Russia. chrysolite has a similar etymology.) Friedrich Walchner in 1823 gave it the name "hyalosiderite". Wallerius's chrysolite was renamed, olivine, in 1789 by Abraham Gottlieb Werner for the usual olive green color of this mineral (N.B. In 1772, Rome d'Lisle renamed the mineral "chrysolite ordinaire". In 1755, Antoine Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville called this species "peridot ordinaire", while Axel Cronstedt named it "gulgron topas" in 1758. The "chrysolithas" of Pliny (79) is believed to be topaz.) The earliest name given to an undisputed olivine group species was chrysolit (chrysolite) and was named by Johan Gottschalk Wallerius in 1747, although the name chrysolite was later used by Balthasar Georges Sage in 1777 for what is now known as prehnite.
Known in ancient times and some smaragdus and beryllos (Pliny, 79) may have been what is now called forsterite.
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