[Rockhounds] "Kraokinite"

[Jeffrey T. Cessna]

My guess is that Georgia is trying to write a newsletter summary for 
a club meeting she could not attend based on notes taken by someone 
who was not the club secretary. The secretary was running the 
meeting, but was also the rockhound who mentioned the confusing 
mineral name (at the meeting).

The rockhound was visiting a glacier in or near Banff National Park 
(in Canada) and wanted to collect some glacier tumbled rocks. The 
explanation for not finding any was that they were at such a high 
altitude that the only thing coming out of the glacier was 
"kraokinite." Which was reported to be a fine dust that serves as the 
nucleation point in the formation of snowflakes.

This suggests that the earlier answer of kaolinite might be the 
correct name. Searching with that spelling produces much more information.

...or it could be a completely unrelated question.

-Jeff Cessna

At 11:35 AM 10/24/2007, you wrote:
>On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:59:44 -0400, Frederick Olmstead
><folmstead at rcn.com> wrote:
>
> >Hello
> >
> >all you helpful "guys" and "gals"
> >
> >kraokinite
> >
> >I searched for kraokinite and found nada.
> >
> >Something about showflace - center of...
> >Anyone know what I am trying to talk about?
> >
> > From a rockhound who asked me...  "...no rocks on the glacer -- but
> >just the center -  of the snowflake - kraokinite."
> >
> >Thankzzz
> >
> >GeorgiaO
>
>I suspect that whatever it is, you've spelled it wrong. Ask the
>rockhound you talked to to elaborate.
>
>--
>Al Balmer
>Sun City, AZ
>
>--