Vugs and coating fractures in rock; as flowstone and incrustations in caves; typically precipitated by evaporative concentration of meteoric solutions weathering magnesite- or dolom ite-bearing rocks.
IMA Status:
Valid Species (Pre-IMA) 1955
Locality:
Ala-Mar deposit, Currant Creek district, and the Gabbs mine, Gabbs district, Nye Co., Nevada, USA. Link to MinDat.org Location Data.
Name Origin:
Named for Walter Frederick Hunt (1882-1975), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
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