List of Minerals Named After People - B

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• Bazzite: Be₃(Sc,Fe)₂Si₆O₁₈ – Italian engineer Alessandro E. Bazzi
• Berthierite: ((Fe,Sb)₂S₄); French geologist and mining engineer Pierre Berthier (1782–1861)
• Bertrandite: Be₄Si₂O₇(OH)₂ – French mineralogist Emile Bertrand (1844–1909)
• Berzeliite: NaCa₂Mg₂(AsO₄)₃ and manganberzeliite – Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848)
• Bilibinskite: Au₂Cu₂PbTe2+ – Soviet geologist Yuri A. Bilibin (1901–1952)
• Bixbite: Be₃(AlMn)₂Si₆O₁₈ – American mineralogist Maynard Bixby; deprecated to red beryl to avoid confusion with bixbyite
• Bixbyite: (Fe,Mn)₂O₃ – American mineralogist Maynard Bixby
• Blödite: Na₂Mg(SO₄)₂•4(H₂O – German chemist Carl August Blöde (1773–1820)
• Blossite: αCu₂V₂O₇ – mineralogist F. Donald Bloss, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
• Bobfergusonite: Na₂Mn2+₅Fe3+Al(PO₄)₆ – Robert Bury Ferguson, University of Manitoba
• Bornite: Cu₅FeS₄ – Austrian Mineralogist Ignaz von Born (1742–1791)
• Bournonite: PbCuSbS₃ – French crystallographer and mineralogist Jacques Louis de Bournon (1751–1825)
• Braggite: PtS – the first mineral characterized by X-ray analysis. William Henry Bragg (1862–1942) and his son, William Lawrence Bragg (1890–1971)
• Brandtite: Ca₂Mn2+(AsO₄)₂·2H₂O and parabrandtite – Swedish chemist Georg Brandt (1694-1768)
• Briartite: Cu₂(Zn,Fe)GeS₄ – Belgian geologist Gaston Briart
• Brookite: TiO₂ – English mineralogist Henry James Brooke (1771–1857)
• Brucite: Mg(OH)₂ – American mineralogist Archibald Bruce (1777–1818)
• Burtite: CaSn(OH)₆ – American mining geologist Donald McLain Burt (born 1943)
• Buseckite: (Fe,Zn,Mn)S – American geologist Peter Buseck, Arizona State University