A geology student at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) who discovered a new mineral in 1988 has honored his former mentor by christening it “Trembathite.”
Pat Burns, now a doctoral student at the University of Manitoba, named the mineral after Lowell Trembath, his professor of geology at UNB in Fredericton. The mineral occurs as small, pale blue, rhomboidal crystals with diameters that seldom exceed two millimetres. Burns unearthed it at the Denison Potican potash mines in Sussex, N.B., while researching his bachelor of science thesis.
Please note: Peter Burns discovered Trembathite not Pat Burns