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THE new mineral, görgeyite, was described in 1953 by Mayrhofer1 from salt beds at Ischl, in Upper Austria, as K25Ca(SO4)6.1–1½H2O. In the same year, Mokievsky2 announced the discovery by Nefedov of a sulphate mineral of comparable composition in salt deposits of Lake Inder, Kazakhstan S.S.R., to which the name mikheevite was given. That the two were identical was suspected by Fleischer3, and after Nefedov4 published further data on mikheevite, Meixner5 showed that this was indeed the case. The name görgeyite has priority. We wish to record a third occurrence of the mineral.
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SMITH, G., WALLS, R. & WHYMAN, P. An Occurrence of Görgeyite in Greece. Nature 203, 1061–1062 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2031061b0
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