[Rockhounds] "OBSCURE" MINERAL NAMES

[Jeffrey T. Cessna]

A search on Google Earth gives no Kurvisk, but Kirvisk yields a 
suggestion of Kirovs'k in the Kola Peninsula.

Back at Mindat there is this photo containing Rinkite from the 
Kirovskii mine. http://www.mindat.org/photo-72736.html

Finally, Kirovsk is in the Khibiny massif, a locality listed in the 
mindat "internet links" "Rincite details from Handbook of Minerology 
(PDF)" The link I sent in the previous email.

Jeff


At 08:06 PM 8/22/2008, you wrote:
>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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