👉 Brochantite is a mineral that is part of a group of minerals called biotite. It was first described by the American mineralogist William C. Brochard in 1895, and it has been named after French chemist Paul Brochard who first identified it as biotite. The crystal structure of brochantite is composed of two layers of hexagonal crystals, with one layer being a regular tetragonal structure and the other being an orthorh