[Rockhounds] "OBSCURE" MINERAL NAMES

[Horst Windisch]

Hi Jeff, Kreigh and Jürgen, (and possibly others who have replied later)

Thanks very much for apparently clearing up these two "problem"names..

It now seems safe to assume that in the case of "EINKITE" it is now RINKITE. 
The locality is most probably Kirovsk. I myself made a spelling mistake when 
I quoted Kurvisk (in my original notes it was spelt as Kurvosk)

As far as the "pyrotrope" is concerned, it looks likely to be "pyrope", an 
answer I also received from a mineral collector friend of mine in Germany - 
Karl Klänhardt (who also confirmed the locality) and also gave me a 
description of the mineral. This I will still have to check out physically, 
as I was only working from the index card, without having the mineral 
specimen in front of me.

Thanks a lot for going to this trouble - I know from experience that most 
"rockhounds" are a very helpful bunch of people.

Horst

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeffrey T. Cessna" <jcessna at nist.gov>
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Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] "OBSCURE" MINERAL NAMES


>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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