stichtite

English
Stichtite on serpentine

Etymology

After Robert Sticht (1856-1922), the manager of Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Co. in Australia, in 1910.[1]

Noun

stichtite (plural stichtites)

  1. (mineralogy) A mineral with rhombohedral crystals, often pink or lilac, Mg6Cr2CO3(OH)16·4H2O.

Further reading
  • “Stichtite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
  • “stichtite”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.
  1. Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997

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