The Chinese scientific research team discovered two new minerals, the Chinese names are brown-phosphorus-vanadium-lead and green-phosphorus-lead.

I learned from Northwestern University that recently, after review and voting by the Professional Committee on New Minerals Nomenclature and Classification of the International Society of Mineralogy (IMA-CNMNC), Liu Peng, associate professor of the Department of Geology and the State Key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics of Northwestern University, and China University of Geosciences (Beijing) Professor Li Guowu's team applied for two new minerals, both approved.

The International Minerals Society numbers of the new minerals are IMA2023 -113 and IMA2023 -119, the English names nigelcookite and plumbojohntomaite respectively, and the Chinese names are brown phosphor-vanadium-plumbite and green phosphor-plumbite.

Both brown-phosphorus-vanadiumite and green-phosphorus-ferroplumite belong to the bjarebyite group. The crystal structure characteristics of these two new phosphate minerals are similar to those of other minerals in the green-forumite family, and both are monoclinic.

The discovery of the above two new minerals has added two new end-members to the green phosphinite family, and are both found in the Yushui copper deposit in northeastern Guangdong, which is the same origin as the heavy rare earth minerals Jingwen ore and Wenlan vanadium yttrium ore previously discovered by the team.