[Rockhounds] New name for a Canadian town called Asbestos

[Alan Goldstein]

I think the town should have been renamed “Garnet” – because “Grossular” would be the butt of too many jokes.

Alan G.

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From: Mike Flannigan<mailto:mikeflan at att.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 5:47 PM
To: rockhounds at rockhounds.drizzle.com<mailto:rockhounds at rockhounds.drizzle.com>
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] New name for a Canadian town called Asbestos


Looks like you are right-on about the naming:
https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mindat.org%2Fmin-3975.html&data=04%7C01%7C%7C6a771a1022cb4bfa0fb008d87541ac26%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637388272210998244%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=CpK0IxpxEuh4jOIroI8I9GtLQzRDpRFEF46YUvo2BOI%3D&reserved=0


Regarding what mineral(s) they were mining to make
the asbestos:
https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mindat.org%2Floc-581.html&data=04%7C01%7C%7C6a771a1022cb4bfa0fb008d87541ac26%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637388272210998244%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=aeEs2wguhkAv1lFcDrrvIQw8OmdiTXLXMeVyNK2JPvc%3D&reserved=0

Collectors at work:
https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mindat.org%2Fphoto-740360.html&data=04%7C01%7C%7C6a771a1022cb4bfa0fb008d87541ac26%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637388272210998244%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=UE73WWCg289m%2FRuesXW7J1iZQ3qOwBG42O48Vj3SV4Q%3D&reserved=0


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>
> To: "Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem
>        collectors"     <rockhounds at rockhounds.drizzle.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] New name for a Canadian town called Asbestos
> Message-ID:<8B1FF538-A1E4-4499-8B9B-C5D66788D714 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!
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I?m sure this is far from the only example of this kind of confusion.
>
> Doug


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