Original description: How, H., 1868. II. Contributions to the Mineralogy of Nova Scotia. III. Borates and other Minerals in Anhydrite and Gypsum. Silicoborocalcite, a New Mineral — The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science 35: 32—41 [
view in ‘Library’].
Type locality: near Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Type material: unknown.
Etymology: after Henry How, Canadian chemist, geologist, and mineralogist, who first described the species.