page_title: Edingtonite
hierarchical_section_title: Edingtonite
caption_attribution_description: English: Edingtonite Locality: Ice River Alkaline Complex, Golden Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada (Locality at mindat.org) Field of view 9 mm. Specimen and photo Leon Hupperichs. Deutsch: Edingtonit Fundort: Ice River Alkaline Complex, Golden Mining Division, British Columbia, Kanada (Fundort bei mindat.org)
context_page_description: Edingtonite is a white, gray, brown, colorless, pink or yellow zeolite mineral. Its chemical formula is BaAl₂Si₃O₁₀·4H₂O. It has varieties with tetragonal, orthorhombic or triclinic crystals.
  The mineral occurs within cavities in nepheline syenites, carbonatites, in
  hydrothermal veins and various mafic rocks. It occurs associated with thomsonite, analcime, natrolite, harmotome, brewsterite, prehnite and calcite.
  The mineral was first reported by and named for Scottish mineral collector James Edington. Other sources credit Scottish geologist and mineralogist Thomas Edington. However, as the mineral was named in 1825, the former accreditation must be the true one.
context_section_description: Edingtonite is a white, gray, brown, colorless, pink or yellow zeolite mineral. Its chemical formula is BaAl₂Si₃O₁₀·4H₂O. It has varieties with tetragonal, orthorhombic or triclinic crystals.
  The mineral occurs within cavities in nepheline syenites, carbonatites, in
  hydrothermal veins and various mafic rocks. It occurs associated with thomsonite, analcime, natrolite, harmotome, brewsterite, prehnite and calcite.
  The mineral was first reported by and named for Scottish mineral collector James Edington (1787–1844). Other sources (including the mineralogist Haidinger) credit Scottish geologist and mineralogist Thomas Edington (1814-1859). However, as the mineral was named in 1825, the former accreditation must be the true one.
caption: Edingtonite from Ice River Alkaline Complex, Golden Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
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