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landesite Min.|ˈlændiːzaɪt| [f. the name of K. K. Landes (b. 1899), American geologist + -ite1.] A brown hydrated phosphate of manganese and ferric iron, occurring as an alteration product of reddingite at Berry Quarry, Poland, Maine, U.S.A.
1930Berman & Gonyer in Amer. Mineralogist XV. 385 This mineral seems to represent a new species for which the name landesite is here proposed in honor of Professor Kenneth K. Landes who has done much work on the pegmatites of Maine. 1964Ibid. XLIX. 1123 The landesite formula is better expressed in the following manner... [Mn2 +1 -x(Fe3 +OH)x]3 [(3 - 3x)H2O] (PO4)2 in which, for type landesite, x is approximately 0·25. |