What is "bobdownsite"

Bobdownsite is the fluorine bearing mineral of the whitlockite group of phosphate minerals whose formula is Ca(Mg)(PO)(POF). It is isotypic with whitlockite and was misidentified as such until proper chemical analysis. Whitlockites structure and relationships with other phosphate compounds has been extensively studied. Bobdownsite was first recovered from Big Fish River, Yukon, Canada from a Lower Cretaceous outcrop of bedded ironstones and shales. Bobdownsite is named after Robert Terrace Downs a professor of mineralogy in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona, who lived and worked in the Yukon Territory in the 1970s. Bobdownsite is unique because it is the first known naturally forming phosphate to contain a P-F bond.

Bobdownsite is closely related to whitlockite and merrillite.