Howlite [SEP] named after
Howlite
Howlite, a calcium borosilicate hydroxide (CaBSiO(OH)), is a borate mineral found in evaporite deposits. 
History.
Howlite was discovered near Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1868 by Henry How (1828–1879), a Canadian chemist, geologist, and mineralogist. How was alerted to the unknown mineral by miners in a gypsum quarry, who found it to be a nuisance. He called the new mineral silico-boro-calcite; it was given the name howlite by James Dwight Dana shortly thereafter.
Geology
312-341.
- (1878) The East Indian herbarium of King's College, Windsor. Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science, 4(4), 369-379.
- "Contributions to the Mineralogy of Nova Scotia 1868-78"
See also.
- Howlite
- List of minerals named after people
External links.
- Howlite at mindat.org
- Mordenite at mindat.org