sinkankasite
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Sinkankasite, mineral formula: , was named after John Sinkankas (1915–2002), noted author and mineral collector, Scripps Institute of Oceanography. It is triclinic; as colorless, bladed to prismatic crystals up to 4 mm in length, often as divergent, radial aggregates and as pseudomorphs after triphlyte crystals; occurs in the Barker pegmatite (formerly Ferguson pegmatite), east of Keystone, South Dakota, and in the Palermo pegmatite, North Groton, New Hampshire.
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It sits within the topics Minerals in space group 2, Phosphate minerals and Triclinic minerals.
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- phosphate mineral
- Image
- Sinkankasite-d06-09a.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 8.DB.20
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 8.DB.20
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Ska
- Commons category
- Sinkankasite
- chemical formula
- Mn²⁺Al(PO₃OH)₂(OH) · 6H₂O
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Sinkankasite, mineral formula: , was named after John Sinkankas (1915–2002), noted author and mineral collector, Scripps Institute of Oceanography. It is triclinic; as colorless, bladed to prismatic crystals up to 4 mm in length, often as divergent, radial aggregates and as pseudomorphs after triphlyte crystals; occurs in the Barker pegmatite (formerly Ferguson pegmatite), east of Keystone, South Dakota, and in the Palermo pegmatite, North Groton, New Hampshire.
==References==
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