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Labuntsovite-Mg is a hydrous sodium potassium magnesium titanium silicate, specifically a member of the labuntsovite group (Chukanov et al. 2002). Semenov & Burova (1955) named labuntsovite, now labuntsovite-Mn, after Aleksandr Labuntsov (1884-1963), discoverer of the Khibiny apatite deposits. When Khomyakov et al. (2001) found a magnesium analog of labuntsovite, they applied a Levinson like suffix, naming it labuntsovite-Mg.

Labuntsovite-Mg forms red-orange crystals to 1.5 mm in carbonatite matrix. From the collection of E.R. Laskowski (1949-2020), a mining engineer who retired to Tucson, Arizona.