In 1978, the International Mineral Association recognized Barnes by giving the name " virgilite " to a newly discovered volcanic glass he had collected in Peru, and two fossils have " barnesi " in their scientific names, honoring Barnes'work with Cambrian rocks in central Texas.
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It occurs as miarolytic cavity fillings of alkalic pegmatites in the Kola occurrence and in nepheline syenite in the Magnet Cove igneous complex of Arkansas, US . Its mineral association includes cafetite ( which with it is also polymorphous ), perovskite, titanite, rutile and ilmenite.
