[Rockhounds] Iowalite

[pmodreski at aol.com]

I learned some things from this discussion!  I never knew there was such a mineral as "Iowaite", and, looking it up, I see that it really is, indeed, from Iowa; the type locality being from a deep drill core.
P.S., it always perplexes me, that we have a confusion, that I capital "I" (as in Iowa) and a lower-case L (as in, oh, Scully for one word!) look exactly the same in many of the commonly used fonts.  Isn't there some solution to this?
Sounds like neat material that you bought, John!
Pete


-----Original Message-----
From: John Scully <jscully216 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Fri, Apr 9, 2021 9:26 pm
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Iowalite

That is definitely what I purchased.
Thanks.
🙂

On Fri, Apr 9, 2021, 8:16 PM Doug Bank <dougbank at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> That DOES look correct. Specifically, it seems to be Chromium bearing
> Iowaite.
>
> https://www.mindat.org/loc-204714.html <
> https://www.mindat.org/loc-204714.html>
>
> Interesting that this location did not show up in my search of the Altai
> Mountains, because it is pretty darn close. It seems like Altai Mountains
> is more in Mongolia, while this locality (Altai Republic) is mostly in
> Russia.
>
> https://www.mindat.org/loc-2618.html <https://www.mindat.org/loc-2618.html
> >
>
> Doug
>
> > On Apr 9, 2021, at 10:07 PM, Kreigh Tomaszewski <kreigh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Possibly Iowaite? from a typo?
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 9:32 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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