Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.
Huntite is a carbonate mineral with the chemical formula Mg3Ca(CO3)4. The earliest known reference to huntite is a paper by George Faust from 1953 in which the discovery of a new mineral in Nevada was announced. Faust acknowledges that the mineral probably had been discovered previously but had been misidentified as impure magnesite by W. E. Ford in 1917.