- Hodgkinsonite
Hodgkinsonite is a rare
zinc manganese silicate mineral Zn2MnSiO4(OH)2. It crystallizes in themonoclinic system and typically forms radiating to acicular prismatic crystals with variable color from pink, yellow-red to deep red. Hodgkinsonite was discovered in 1913 by H. H. Hodgkinson, for whom it is named inFranklin, New Jersey , and it is only found in that area. [ [http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/silicate/hodgkins/hodgkins.htm THE MINERAL HODGKINSONITE] . AccessedAugust 22 ,2008 .]References
*http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/hodgkinsonite.pdf Manual of Mineralogy
*http://webmineral.com/data/Hodgkinsonite.shtml Webmineral
*http://www.mindat.org/min-1913.html MindatExternal links
*http://franklin-sterlinghill.com/palache/hodgkinsonite.stm
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