Perovskite - Discovery and Name

Discovery and Name

Perovskite was first described in 1839 from an occurrence in the Achmatovsk Mine in the Nazyamskie Mountains, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Southern Urals, Russia. The new mineral was named by Gustav Rose for Russian mineralogist, Count Lev Alekseevich Perovski (1792–1856), of St. Petersburg, Russia.

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