Variety of Sodalite

Hackmanite

Hackmanite
Sulfur-rich variety of Sodalite, usually with a pink or purple color. The term Hackmanite is sometimes also be used to describe pale-colored Sodalite or Sodalite with fluorescence or tenebrescence.  Hackmanite was named for Victor Axel Hackman (1866 - 1941), a noted geologist for the Finnish Geological Survey.

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