Where it forms, where it's found
1,445recorded occurrences
Varieties
Physical
Synonyms
- Black Ocher
- Black Wad
- Bog Manganese
- Brauner Eisenrahm
- Earthy manganese
- Earthy Ocher of Manganese
- Groroilit
- Groroilita
- Groroilite
- Hydrohausmannite (of Boldyrev)
- Hydromanganit
- Hydromanganita
- Hydromanganite
- Hydromanganosit
- Hydromanganosita
- Hydromanganosite
- Hydropyrolusit
- Hydropyrolusita
- Hydropyrolusite
- Hydroxybraunit
- Hydroxybraunita
- Hydroxybraunite
- Magnesia friabilis terriformis
- Mangangraphit
- Mangangraphita
- Mangangraphite
- Manganomelan
- Manganschaum
- Manganschwärze
- Manganseerz
- Myrmangan
- Ouatit
- Ouatita
- Ouatite
- Pelagit
- Pelagita
- Pelagite
- Reissacherita
- Reissacherite
- Schaumartiger Graphit
- Schwarzes Braunsteinerz
- Vad
- Vod
- Wadgraphit
- Wadit
- Wadita
- Wadite
Group, growth & confusion
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- 1709Robinson, Thomas (1709) An Essay Towards a Natural History of Westmoreland and Cumberland, Freeman, pp 95.
- 1783Wedgwood, Josiah (1783) Some Experiments upon the Ochra Friabilis Nigro Fusca of Da Costa... and called by the Miners of Derbyshire, Black Wadd, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, p. 284-287.
- 1819Otley, Jonathan (1819) Account of the Black-Lead Mine in Borrowdale Cumberland, Memoirs of the Literary & Philosophical Society Manchester, v. 3 series 2 : 168-175.
- 1944Palache, Charles, Berman, Harry, Frondel, Clifford (1944) The System of Mineralogy (7th ed.) Vol. 1 - Elements, Sulfides, Sulfosalts, Oxides. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Wad — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/wad-4225},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}