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Wilkeite

System:HexagonalHardness:5
Name:After Mr. R.M. Wilke, American mineral dealer and collector of Palo Alto, California.
Synonym of:Ellestadite-(F)


According to Fleischer (1983), it is a siliceous, sulphatian Apatite, or a phosphatian Fluorellestadite.

Bayliss - Glossary of Obsolete Mineral Names (2000), simply calls it P-rich Fluorellestadite, but references American Mineralogist (1982): 69: 90, and Mineralogical Magazine (1982): 46: 514.

The type material was pink hexagonal crystals in blue crystalline limestone from Riverside Co., California, USA.

References for Wilkeite

Reference List:Eakle, A.S. & A.F. Rogers (1914), Wilkeite, a new mineral of the apatite group, and okenite, its alteration product, from southern California, American Journal of Science, 4th. Series: 37: 262-267.

Brauns (1916) Jb. Min., Beil.-Bd.: 41: 60.

McConnell (1937) American Mineralogist: 22: 977.

Borneman-Starinkevitch (1938) Comptes rendus de l’académie des sciences de l’U.R.S.S., n.s.: 19: 253.

Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 1124 pp.: 905.

American Mineralogist (1982): 69: 90.

Mineralogical Magazine (1982): 46: 514.

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