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After Robert Sticht (1856-1922), the manager of Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Co. in Australia, in 1910.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
stichtite
Today it means: A mineral with rhombohedral crystals, often pink or lilac, Mg₆Cr₂CO₃(OH)₁₆·4H₂O. Full definition →