Hi Ronnie,

Here is the message I received:

"Dear Chris,

The article where suhailite was defined is signed by my colleague M.D. Ruiz Cruz and for me. She was who gave its name. In fact, the discovery of the mineral corresponds to her. I was only the field geologist who helped her to collect samples.

The name suhailite was taken because the places where the samples that facilitated the first description of this mineral are situated in the municipality of current Fuengirola, a city located about 23 km to the SW of Malaga. And according to Dr. Ruiz Cruz, the Arabic name for Fuengirola was Suhaila. I didn't do any research about it.

This is all I know. And we cannot ask Dr. Ruiz Cruz since she died a few years ago.

I hope I have helped on this topic.

Best regards from C. Sanz de Galdeano"

A brief Wikipedia search corroborates that the area was known by that name (translated from Arabic as Suhayl in the article).