Probably precipitated from high-aluminum gels on carbonates at pH > 5.8 (Hatrurim Formation, Israel); as weathered crusts on amphiboles and pyroxenes (Dnieper region, Russia); in ba uxites.
IMA Status:
Valid Species (Pre-IMA) 1928
Locality:
In the Hatrurim Formation, Israel. From an undefined area in the Dnieper region, and in the Listvennoye deposit, Yenisei Ridge, Siberia, Russia. Link to MinDat.org Location Data.
Name Origin:
The artificial compound is thought to have been named for the 19th-century German metallurgist Karl J. Bayer; the name was then applied to the natural mineral.
Chemical Formula: 