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Its name comes from the locality where it was identified by Faber in 1852: the Patapsco mine in Carroll County, Maryland in the United States. It is part of the linnaeïtes, it forms a series with the violarite, the polydymite, the siegenite according to the
Discovered at Mont Saint-Hilaire in Canada by a team of the Carlton University in Ottawa, it was named after it.
It was identified in 1839 by a German mineralogist and named in honor of the Russian Finance Minister George Kankrin (1774-1845). This stone is particular : it is a silicate but effervesces with acid because it contains carbonates.
