I really didn’t think this was real, but it’s confirmed in the real-deal Handbook of Mineralogy:
There exists a mineral – magnesium iron silicate hydroxide, or Fe2Mg5Si8O22(OH)2 – which, due to its discovery in the town of Cummington, Massachusetts, is named…. cummingtonite.
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