A rare mineral composed of hydrated copper lead arsenate, typically found as green or yellow crystals in oxidized ore deposits.
Named after Baildon, a location in England where the mineral was first discovered, with the mineralogical suffix '-ite' (from Greek 'lithos,' meaning stone). Following 19th-century mineral taxonomy conventions, new discoveries were named after their discovery sites.
Bayldonite is so rare and obscure that it's primarily known only to mineral collectors and geologists—it represents how mining and geology created thousands of specialized names for substances most people will never see or encounter.
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