Jeffersonite is a variety of the mineral augite. For information about augite please click the article tab at the top of the page, or click -here-.

Jeffersonite is a variety of augite that contains zinc and manganese. Jefferonite was first originally described from a location in the Passaic Pit, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg in Sussex County, New Jersery, USA.

The mineral jeffersonite can be translated into the following select languages:

Arabic		Bulgarian		Chinese (Sim)
Croatian		Czech		Danish
Dutch		Esperanto		Estonian
Finnish		French		German	Jeffersonit
Greek		Hebrew		Hungarian
Italian		Japanese		Korean
Latin		Lithuanian		Norwegian
Persian		Polish		Portuguese
Romanian		Russian		Slovak
Spanish	Jeffersonita	Swedish		Tagalog
Turkish		Ukrainian		Vietnamese

Jeffersonite can only be found in one place in the world. The map below shows major documented concentrations of jeffersonite:

Geographical Data	Mindat.org. Retrieved on 2012-04-27
July 30, 2012	The last time this page was updated
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