A rare mineral composed of hydrated iron phosphate, named after the banak tree or its origin location.
Formed by adding the mineralogical suffix -ite to banak, following the scientific naming convention where many minerals are named after the locations where they're discovered or their distinctive properties.
Mineralogists name thousands of minerals this way—like how 'diamonds' eventually gets named after people—and banakite is so rare that most geology students never actually see a sample in person!
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