Min. [f. TALC sb. + -ITE1 2.] a. Kirwan’s name for the compact scaly variety of talc. b. Name given to a white muscovite from Wicklow. c. (See quot. 1888.)
1796. Kirwan, Elem. Min. (ed. 2), I. 149. Talcite. Colour, reddish or greenish white, or leek green.
1836. T. Thomson, in Thomson’s Rec. Gen. Sci., III. 334. The specimens of talcite from Ireland are from the county of Wicklow, where it occurs crystallized in granite.
1888. Nature, 20 Sept., 506/2. This upper group—that of the talcites (talc-schists)—contains talc only as an accessory constituent.
