Chemistry:Kalininite

Kalininite
General
Category	Mineral
Formula (repeating unit)	(ZnCr2S4)

Kalininite (ZnCr₂S₄) is a thiospinel mineral found in Russia in 1985 in the Pereval Marble Quarry, Slyudyanka (Sludyanka), Lake Baikal area, Irkutskaya Oblast', Prebaikalia (Pribaikal'e), Eastern-Siberian Region. It was named for P. V. Kalinin, Russian mineralogist and petrologist, investigator of the southern Baikal region.

References

• Mindat
• Webmineral
• Handbook of Mineralogy