Gaston Briart was a Belgian geologist and mining engineer who worked and studied rock formations at
Prince Léopold Mine (
http://www.mindat.org/loc-4312.html), Kipushi,
Katanga,
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The mineral Briartite, dscovered in Kipushi in 1965, is named in his honour.
J.J. Lhoest, Famous mineral localities: The Kipushi mine, Zaire in Mineralogical Record volume 26, Number 3: May-June 1995 p.163