What is "frankamenite"

n. (context mineral English) A triclinic-pedial mineral containing calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium.

Frankamenite is the fluorine-dominate variation of the rare mineral canasite with a general formula of KNaCa(SiO)[F,(OH)]·(HO).

Frankamenite belongs to the triclinic crystal system, with the bases of its structure containing Ca-Na mixed octahedra joined by octagonal tubes SiO of the composition (SiO). Frankamenite has six Ca-Na mixed positions distributed amongst these octahedra, reflecting its varying compositions.

Frankamenite was named for the Russian mineralogist- crystallographer V. A. Frank-Kamentsky (1915–1994), who discovered the mineral.

Frankamenite occurs in association with the rare mineral charoite, which is found only in the Sakha Republic, Yakutia, Siberia, Russia. Here, metasomatism enriches a syenite massif with potassium when it comes into contact with a limestone at around 200–250 °C. This metamorphic process produces a potassium feldspar metasomatite, the typical geological environment for canasite and, therefore, frankamenite. Frankamenite and charoitein are exclusive to the Sakha Republic in this sort of environment, as mineralogists have yet to discover the minerals elsewhere.