[Rockhounds] "OBSCURE" MINERAL NAMES

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

I did a search on Google Books for Einkite and had one hit

http://books.google.com/ 
books?id=bN04AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA285&lpg=PA285&dq=Einkite&source=web&ots=gPcKz 
Bu6XA&sig=bwG44Slq5yAs2P- 
nHEdflHvgcE0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

which was Manual of Mineralogy and Petrography By James Dwight, page  
285. The highlighted word on the page showing the search hit was  
'Rinkite'. Mindat gives four localities on the Kola Peninsula for  
Rinkite, but Kirvisk is not one of them.

Kreigh


On Friday, Aug 22, 2008, at 14:56 America/Detroit, Horst Windisch 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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