Keilite [SEP] named after
Keilite
Keilite is an iron-magnesium sulfide mineral (chemical formula (Fe,Mg)S)) that is found in enstatite chondrites. Keilite is the iron-dominant analog of niningerite. Keilite is named after Klaus Keil (born 1934).
Occurrences.
Examples of keilite occurrences are enstatite chondrites and the Zakłodzie meteorite. It appears to be confined to impact-melt influenced enstatite chondrites that were quenched. There are also some meteorites interpreted as impact-melt breccias that don't contain keilite. This is explained as
hydroromarchite, keilite, kulanite, romarchite, marićite and walfordite. Through his work on setting the rules for IMA submissions, his influence on the naming of new species continues to this day.
Honours.
- The minerals mandarinoite (IMA1977-049) and telluromandarinoite (IMA2011-013) are named after him
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America
- Honorary Member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
- Honorary Director of the Canadian Gemmological Association