Mineral Name | Wollastonite |
First Discovered | 1818 |
Nickel-Strunz Classification | 09.DG.05 |
Dana Classification | 65.02.01.01a |
ICSD | Pre IMA |
Mineral Group | Silicates |
Gjellebäckite is another name for the mineral wollastonite and not a valid name for a mineral. |
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Used by Nordenskiöld (1849) for what was later shown to be an impure wollastonite from Gjellebekk, Lier, Buskerud, Norway.
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