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Manganoneptunite - Sold
- Khibiny Massif
- Kola Peninsula
- Russia
- 4.2 × 3.4 × 2.4 cm – Miniature specimen (fits into a 5 cm cube)
Manganoneptunite is a potassium sodium manganese lithium silicate, related to neptunite. Fersman (1923) named mangan-neptunite for its manganese content and relationship to neptunite. The root mineral name neptunite honors Neptune, sea-god of Roman mythology (Flink, 1893). Ultimately, the International Mineralogical Association changed the mineral name to manganoneptunite (Burke, 2008).
Manganoneptunite forms red-brown crystals to 9 mm on a matrix of feldspar and aegirine. From the collection of E.R. Laskowski (1949-2020), a mining engineer who retired to Tucson, Arizona.
