Houghton, MI – A new mineral discovered in the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine in Arizona has been named georgerobinsonite. The mineral is named after George W. Robinson, professor of mineralogy and curator of Michigan Technological University’s A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum. It is a lead chromate—a salt of chromic acid—that occurs as minute, transparent, orange-red crystals on cerussite, another lead carbonate and secondary lead mineral.
A team of Canadian scientists discovered the new mineral and reported on it in the October 2011 issue of the journal The Canadian Mineralogist. They decided to name it for Robinson because “George is a prominent curator who has contributed a lot to the mineral community,” said Frank Hawthorne, an author of the journal article and a professor at the University of Manitoba.
It is a convention in the profession not to name new minerals for their discoverers, Hawthorne explained.
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