Tatyana Grigorievna Afanasieva (1912–2002) and former afanasievaite (mineral not approved)

Tatyana Grigorievna Afanasieva worked most of her career at the Sverdlovsk Mining Institute, as a researcher and senior laboratory assistant (from 1941 to 1968).Tatyana Grigorievna was involved in the training of a large number of qualified geologists -mineralogists, she even conducted practical classes with miners and concentrators.In honor of Tatyana Grigorievna, a new mineral was named -afanasievaite, which was discovered by B. V. Chesnokov in the burnt dumps of the Chelyabinsk coal basin.Due to its technogenic origin, the International Mineralogical Association did not approve it as a new mineral species.