The Where of Mineral Names: Khorixasite, Mesopotamia, Khorixas, Kunene Region, Namibia

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Vincent Bourgoin granted permission to use the khorixasite specimen photo, and George Henry provided the type-locality photo. Mindat.org as always was a valuable source of information. Woodrow Thompson and Malcolm Southwood are thanked for reviewing the article and suggesting improvements, and William Besse prepared the locality map. This work was partly funded by the NRF (National Research Foundation) and CIMERA (the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Integrated Mineral and Energy Resource Analysis). Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author and therefore the NRF and DSI-NRF CIMERA do not accept liability in regard thereto.

Notes

* Khorixas is pronounced core-ich (with guttural ch)-ahs.

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Bruce Cairncross

Dr. Bruce Cairncross, a consulting editor of Rocks & Minerals, is professor emeritus at the University of Johannesburg.