[Rockhounds] "OBSCURE" MINERAL NAMES

[Jeffrey T. Cessna]

Horst,

I had some time to do a random walk through Google...

The Mineralogical Society of America Handbook of Mineralogy lists 
Rinkite in the Kola Peninsula - 
http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/Rinkite.PDF

I also found it interesting that entering einkite gave me a link to a 
page in Google books clearly saying Einkite, but when I looked at the 
pdf image of the page the actual word was Rinkite. Do humans make the 
same mistakes as optical character recognition?

Is Pyrotrope perhaps Pyrope found in the serpentine in Waldheim? The 
following is a quote from 
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Serpentine_(Mineral)"In 
<http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Saxony>Saxony common serpentine is 
largely worked at Zoblitz near 
<http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Marienberg>Marienberg and Waldheim. 
The rock of Zoblitz, mentioned by G. Agricola in the 16th century, is 
usually of dull green or brown colour, and frequently contains dark 
red Bohemian <http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Garnet>garnet or 
<http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Pyrope>pyrope."

Cheers,
-Jeff

At 02:56 PM 8/22/2008, you wrote:
>Hi list,
>
>For the past year or so, I have been checking the mineral data base 
>here at the Museum for the Council of Geoscience in Pretoria, South 
>Africa. What I have been looking at is the correct spelling and 
>validity of the mineral specimen names and localities. As the 
>information on the data base has been transcribed from hand-written 
>catalogue cards, quite  a few spelling mistakes do occur. Namr 
>changes of localities, especially in Europe durin the last century 
>also play a great role.
>
>Here for example are two cases which have me stumped, despite 
>checking in various mineral publications and atlases:-
>
>Einkite, Kurvisk, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Nowhere can I find the 
>name of a mineral "einkite". Possibly it could have been a spelling 
>mistake How about "rinkite"? But a search on mindat.org does not 
>seem to indicate a locality in the Kola Peninsula. Any suggestions?
>
>Pyrotrope, Waldheim, Germany. Nowhere can I find a reference to 
>"pyrotrope", not even as a discredited mineral. Any suggestions?
>
>At the outset I must state that I work a few hours per week at this 
>Museum as a volunteer, ever since I went on pension in May 1991. The 
>above-mentioned  exercise has kept me quite busy; checking through 
>about 20 000 specimens. I have been involved in various projects at 
>the Museum, this being the latest one. For queries relating to some 
>European localities, I have inspanned the help of some mineral 
>collector friends in Germany and Sweden.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Horst
>
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