A rare vanadium oxide mineral with the chemical formula VO₂, typically found in oxidized zones of vanadium deposits.
Named after a person (likely mineralogist D.B. Hewett or similar), following the scientific naming convention for minerals where '-ite' (from Greek 'lithos' meaning stone) is appended to a proper name.
Mineralogy naming reveals the history of science itself—while some minerals are named by chemists describing their properties, others immortalize the people who discovered them, creating a 'rock hall of fame' in the earth sciences.
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