Loveringite is a rare metallic oxide mineral of the crichtonite group with the chemical formula . It is a late-stage magmatic mineral, formed in the residual melt of mafic layered intrusions in either the olivine-chromite, pyroxene, or plagioclase-rich layers.
Loveringite is a rare metallic oxide mineral of the crichtonite group with the chemical formula . It is a late-stage magmatic mineral, formed in the residual melt of mafic layered intrusions in either the olivine-chromite, pyroxene, or plagioclase-rich layers.
==Discovery and occurrence== Loveringite was discovered in 1978 in the Jimberlana Intrusion, Dundas Shire, Western Australia, and was named for Australian geochemist and University of Melbourne professor John Francis Lovering, in recognition of his work on fission-track methods in geochemistry.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).