History
Dolomite was first described by the Austrian naturalist Belsazar Hacquet as the "stinking stone" (German: Stinkstein, Latin: lapis suillus in 1778). In 1791, it was described as a rock by the French naturalist and geologist, Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu (1750–1801) from exposures in what are now known as the Dolomite Alps of northern Italy. The mineral was given its name in March 1792 by Nicolas de Saussure. Hacquet and Dolomieu met in Laibach (Ljubljana) in 1784, which may have contributed to Dolomieu's work.
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