Gaston Briart was a
Belgian
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* Belgians, people from Belgium or of Belgian descent
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geologist
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and
mining engineer
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who worked and studied rock formations at
Prince Léopold mine, Kipushi,
Katanga,
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...
.
The mineral
Briartite
Briartite is an opaque iron-grey metallic sulfide mineral, with traces of Ga and Sn, found as inclusions in other germanium- gallium-bearing sulfides.
It was discovered at the Prince Léopold Mine, Kipushi, Shaba, Congo (Léopoldville) in 1965 ...
, discovered in Kipushi in 1965, is named in his honour.
See also
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Paul Fourmarier
Paul Frédéric Joseph Fourmarier (25 December 1877 – 20 January 1970) was a Belgian geologist and specialist in tectonics, after whom Fourmarierite is named.
Fourmarier was born in La Hulpe, Province of Brabant, Belgium and studied at the Unive ...
*
Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt
Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt (6 August 1920 – 4 November 1998) was a Belgian geologist who worked mainly in Africa. He worked at the universities of Ghent and Brussels. He gained international fame in 1960 when he discovered the Ishango Bo ...
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William van Leckwijck
References
J.J. Lhoest, Famous mineral localities: The Kipushi mine, Zaire in Mineralogical Record volume 26, Number 3: May–June 1995 p. 163
External links
Prince Léopold Mine
Belgian mining engineers
Belgian geologists
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