Thank you for clarifying that, my previous understanding was incorrect. Plus, that part specifying that a mineral cannot be called a mineral until it is found

Thank you for clarifying that, my previous understanding was incorrect. Plus, that part specifying that a mineral cannot be called a mineral until it is found in nature, that's pretty danged cool! And probably explains the disconnect between articles and science in this case. My "favourite" disconnect is the term "organic". In science, it just means a molecule that contains carbon-hydrogen or carbon-carbon, Methane being one of the simplest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_compound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_compound If you asked a layman what it meant, you'd get an answer ranging from "food grown without chemicals", through to "a part of a living thing".