Lorenzenite

Lorenzenite is a rare sodium titanium silicate mineral with the formula Na₂Ti₂Si₂O₉ It is an orthorhombic mineral, variously found as colourless, grey, pinkish, or brown crystals.

It was first identified in 1897 in rock samples from Narsarsuk, Greenland. In 1947 it was discovered to be the same as the mineral ramsayite, discovered in the 1920s in the Kola peninsula of Russia. It is also found in northern Canada.

It was named in honour of Danish mineralogist Johannes Theodor Lorenzen (1855-1884).

References

* Handbook of Mineralogy
* Mindat
* Webmineral


List of minerals