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.

Used by Nordenskiöld (1849) for what was later shown to be an impure wollastonite from Gjellebekk, Lier, Buskerud, Norway.

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