[Rockhounds] Iowalite

[Doug Bank]

When I search for the Altai Mountains on Mindat, I get a region that has 308 valid minerals. Charoite isn’t one of them. 

https://www.mindat.org/loc-19428.html <https://www.mindat.org/loc-19428.html>

Doug

> On Apr 9, 2021, at 9:33 PM, DON HALTERMAN <donhalterman at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Looks a lot like rough charoite to me.  Hard to say from a photo though.  Of course, I'll point out that if you can't find any info about it, it's not a mineral species name.
> 
> Don
> 
> 
>> On 04/09/2021 7:31 PM John Scully <jscully216 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Ok, all you savants.  Here in a much diminished Tucson.  Got a few pieces
>> of a deeply purple mineral a Russian dealer called "iowalite" from the
>> Altai mtns.  I can't find anything about it on Google.  Any ideas other
>> than that I am a sucker?
>> John Scully
>> 🙂🙂
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