It was identified in 1841 by the Finnish mineralogist Nordenskiöld.
Its name honors the Russian mining engineer Kammerer from St. Petersburg.
The kammérérite, of a beautiful fuchsia pink, is a chromian variety of clinochlore whose name comes the Greek “klino”, for its oblique axis tilted and “chloros” green. That’s why we use the term “kammérérite” to differentiate its color.
The clinochlore is the best known of chlorites, which are aluminosilicates of iron and magnesium. It is actually the magnesian pole of a series whose other pole is the ferrous chamosite.
The intermediate varieties are often grouped under the name ripidolite which means hand fan in Greek in relation to the positioning of its crystals.
The different chlorite varieties are difficult to differentiate and often we are content with the appellation chlorite.
The séraphinite is a variety of chlinochlore whose crystals resemble silvery-green feathers resembling those of the seraphim who were winged heavenly creatures in the Bible.