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Named after the country in which it was discovered, Afghanistan, where it can be found at the type locality in Ladjuar Medam in the Badakhshan Province. Additional localities for Afghanite are located in Russia, Tajikistan, Italy, the United States, and Canada, among only a couple others. Afghanite occurs at the type locality in veinlets cutting lazurite, and in Italy in siliceous limestone xenoliths in pumice.

Ref. Handbook of Mineralogy, Anthony et al (1995) and MSA at http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/afghanite.pdf

Named for the Association Française de Microminéralogie (AFM), this rare hydrated aluminum phosphate was described by Anthony R. Kampf, Mills, Rossman, Steele, Pluth and Favreau in in 2011 in the European Journal of Mineralogy (23, 269-277). According to the authors "Afmite forms in cockscomb aggregates of diamond-shaped tablets on {001}, ubiquitously contact-twinned on {001}". Afmite has a distinct pearly luster.

Named as an analogue of agardite-Y which in turn was named in honor of Jules Agard, a geologist with the Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres in Orleans, France, and for the dominance of cerium over the other rare earth elements. Notable localities for Agardite-Ce include at the Majuba Hill mine in Nevada, USA, at the Clara mine and Neubulach in the Schwarzwald Mountains in Germany, at St. Hilary and Gwinear in Cornwall, England, at Laurion in Greece, and at Tsumeb in Namibia. A few other localities are known.

Ref. Minerals and their Localities, Bernard, J.H. and Hyršl, J. (2004)

Named as an analogue of agardite-Y which in turn was named in honor of Jules Agard, a geologist with the Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres in Orleans, France, and for the dominance of lanthanum over the other rare earth elements. Agardite-La is a rare mineral that can be found in small amounts in oxidized hydrothermal polymetallic mineral deposits in localities in the United States, Greece, England, Germany, and Italy, among only a few others.

Ref. Handbook of Mineralogy, Anthony et al (1995) and MSA at http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/agardite-(La).pdf

Named as an analogue of agardite-Y which in turn was named in honor of Jules Agard, a geologist with the Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres in Orleans, France, and for the dominance of neodynium over the other rare earth elements. Notable localities for Agardite-Nd include at Gengenbach, the Clara mine, and Wittichen in the Schwarzwald Mountains in Germany, Wheal Alfred in Cornwall, England, and at Osenovlak near Sofija in Bulgaria. A few other localities are known.

Ref. Minerals and their Localities, Bernard, J.H. and Hyršl, J. (2004)