Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.
The mineral zektzerite is a member of the tuhualite group and was first found in 1966 from the Willow creek basin below Silver Star mountain in miarolitic cavities within the alkaline riebeckite granite phase of the Golden Horn batholith Okanogan County Washington. It is named for Jack Zektzer (born 1936) mathematician and mineral collector of Seattle Washington.The mineral was misidentified as alkali beryl (morganite) at that time.
