Modris Baum had picked up this specimen in May 1997 without being able to confirm its identity with certainty. Subsequently it was confirmed as a new species from MSH by Malcolm Back of the Royal Ontario Museum and Robert Gault of the Canadian Museum of Nature using XRD and semi-quantitative microprobe analysis. Only a few small specimens were discovered at the time, a few others have since been identified. Its crystal faces are sometimes frosted, sometimes clear.
Color is colorless.
Luster is vitreous. Diaphaneity is transparent to translucent. Crystal Habits include octahedrons, always twinned or in clusters. Fracture is conchoidal to uneven. Hardness is 4.5 - 5.