okayamalitenoun · 1998
Well attestedThe mine that produced it already had a mineral named after it, so the next find took the name of the whole prefecture.
Satoshi Matsubara and colleagues described okayamalite in 1998 from the Fuka mine at Bicchu-cho in Okayama Prefecture, where boron-bearing fluids had worked over an aggregate of wollastonite and calcite. Fuka had already given its name to fukalite, so the new species was named for the prefecture instead. A second occurrence was later found in the Arendal district of southern Norway.
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