[Rockhounds] New name for a Canadian town called Asbestos

[Mike Flannigan]

Looks like you are right-on about the naming:
https://www.mindat.org/min-3975.html


Regarding what mineral(s) they were mining to make
the asbestos:
https://www.mindat.org/loc-581.html

Collectors at work:
https://www.mindat.org/photo-740360.html


Mike



On 10/20/20 10:42 AM, rockhounds-request at rockhounds.drizzle.com wrote:
> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 10:42:19 -0500
> From: Doug Bank<dougbank at alum.mit.edu>
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> I can?t tell if this is sarcasm or if you are being serious. They absolutely keep changing mineral names!
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> Some of the minerals found in Talcville and Balmat in New York State are anthophyllite, tremolite and clino-suenoite. However, these minerals seem to change names frequently. At the very least, clino-seunoite used to be manganocummingtonite which used to be tirodite and which might be the same as parvowinchite.  Between 2010 and 2020, I think it changed names twice, which doesn?t help any of the labels in my collection.
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> I?d say it was a PITA, but it is even worse, because there is no good way to differentiate between all these without doing a chemical analysis, and I can tell that the few specimens I did buy that have labels are not labelled correctly in the first place.
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> I?m sure this is far from the only example of this kind of confusion.
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> Doug