Doug,
I went to the mindat.org website and could not find any evidence of recognition of a mineral called timeite.  It is less common for a mineral to be spelled with a vowel before "ite".  I therefore also tried timelite, in case you had made a spelling mistake.  Here is the result of my search.

--Search returned: 12 items. Only items listed in bold are recognized mineral species. I couldn't get the bold to copy across and could not do it manually either, so put "bold" where they are true mineral names.
Dimelite
Ehimeite
Eimelite
Iseite (bold)
Limaite
Limnite
Nimesite
Nimite (bold)
Simetite
Tamaite (bold)
Tillite
Viteite (bold)

So I believe Dave had cause for rejecting your submission.  Duly provided for the EQAQ archives.

Respectfully submitted,

Bev Christian, PhD
(on a train from Ottawa to Toronto)



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My esteemed colleague is referring to one of the half fractional elements,
Clocknium-69.5 (Cn-69.5), which comes from the ore Timeite.  Clocknium, as an additive to alloys, affects how time affects the alloy, dramatically slowing corrosion, but needs a proximity to vanadium to do so.  It has an incredibly long half-life, so a small addition to the Cesium clocks helps regulate the flow of time.  It is rumored that the Tardis is fueled to some extent by Clocknium.



As Dave indicates, the sample was first refined to a pure state in 1953 by
Dr. Olaf Hansensonson at the University of Sweden – Kummavuopio.   The
purification was done at the nearby Swedish town of Clockpio.  Don’t bother looking for it on a map as this town is now at the bottom of a lake. You can visit the area if you visit Camp Pikebeast.  Dr. Hansensonson was doing some materials compatibility testing on the refined ore when a small sample accidentally dropped into a glass of akavit he was drinking.  It has been theorized that Clocknium is violently catalyzed by caraway distillate as the resulting fireball was over a kilometer in diameter and there was a distinctive rye smell in the air afterwards.  Truly tragic.  Many caribou perished.  As a result and in the interest of safety, the Swedish government has banned all research into Clocknium.


So Dave, what do I win?

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On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 7:04 AM David Hillman < [log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi folks - here is the Quiz:
>
> The Question:
> A pure sample of this element was first produced in 1953. The element 
> is one of four elements deriving its name from a specific town in Sweden.
> This element is responsible for the current atomic clock stability 
> records. This element finds use as a dopant to help improve the grain 
> refinement, strength, and other mechanical properties of stainless 
> steel. What element is being described?
>
>
> The winner(s) of the quiz will get the services of Clumpy & Kloumpios 
> for the week.
>
> So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following:
>
> *Past Quiz winners/tasks:*
> Week 1 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital Week 1 Ron Feyereisen, 
> SigmaTron Intl.
> Week 2 Louis Hart, Compunetics
> Week 3 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Ltd.
> Week 3 John Burke
> Week 4 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Week 5 No Winner - no correct 
> responses!
> Week 6 Bhanu Sood, NASA
> Week 7 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp
> Week 7 Ian Fox, Rolls Royce
> Week 8 Leland Woodall
> Week 8 David Bealer, SMT
> Week 9 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 10 Louis Hart, Compunetics
> Week 11 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 11 Scott Decker, UTAS
> Week 12 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly 
> Week 13 No Quiz, Week 14 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB 
> Design and Assembly Week 15 Bhanu Sood, NASA Week 16 John Maxwell Week 
> 17 Leland Woodall Week 18 Leland Woodall Week 19 Tom Carroll, Boeing 
> Week 20 Robert Kondner Week 21 Tom Brendlinger, ClearMotion Inc.
> Week 22 Carl Van Wormer, Cipher Engineering LCC Week 23 Juliano 
> Ribeiro, DATACOM Week 24 Gerry Gagnon, FLIR Commercial Systems Week 25 
> Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems Week 26 Joyce Koo, IPC International 
> Week 26 Todd MacFadden, Bose Week 27 Bhanu Sood, NASA Week 28 Leland 
> Woodall Week 29 Mordechai Kirshenbaum Week 30 Leland Woodall Week 31 
> Leland Woodall Week 32 Steve Gregory Week 33 Leland Woodall Week 34 
> Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp Week 35 Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc Week 
> 36 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems Week 37 Richard "Dean" Stadem Week 
> 38 Leland Woodall Week 38 Tom Carroll Week 39 Matthias Mansfeld, 
> Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly Week 40 Leland Woodall 
> Week 41 Tom Carroll Week 42 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB 
> Design and Assembly Week 43 Joyce Koo Week 44 Russell Kido, Practical 
> Components Week 45 Leland Woodall Week 45 Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc 
> Week 46 Ian Fox, Rolls-Royce Control Systems Week 47 Fred Cox, 
> Bluering Stencils Week 48 Tom Carroll, Boeing Week 49 Todd MacFadden, 
> Bose Week 49 Leland Woodall Week 50 Russell Kido, Practical Components 
> Week 51 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital Week 52 Leland Woodall Week 
> 53 Scott Decker, UTAS Week 54 Leland Woodall Week 55 Tom Carroll, 
> Boeing Week 56 Mordechai Kirshenbaum Week 57 Steve Herring, 
> Pennatronics Corp Week 58 Leland Woodall Week 59 Drew Meyer, Benchmark 
> Week 60 Leland Woodall Week 61 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik 
> PCB Design and Assembly Week 62 Leland Woodall!
> Week 63 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly 
> Week 63 Tom Carroll, Boeing Week 63 Tom Granat Week 64 George Wenger 
> Week 65  Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc.
> Week 66  Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp
> Week 66  Leland Woodall
> Week 67  Eray Canli,  ANDAR Electromechanical Systems Week 68  James 
> Head Week 69  Mordechai Kirshenbaum Week 70 Doug Pauls, Rockwell 
> Collins Week 71  Eray Canli,  ANDAR Electromechanical Systems Week 72  
> Russell Kido, Practical Components Week 73 Denny Friz Week 74 Drew 
> Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Week 74 Leland Woodall Week 75 Mordechai 
> Kirshenbaum Week 76 Tom Carroll, Boeing Week 76 Eray Canli,  ANDAR 
> Electromechanical Systems Week 77 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics 
> Week 78 David Bealer, WatchFire Signs Week 79 Torsten Hagge, 
> Kristronics Week 80 Russell Kido, Practical Components
>
> Week 83 Russell Kido, Practical Components
>
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>
> Week 85 Leland Woodall
>
> Week 85 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.
>
> Week 86 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.
>
> Week 87 Steven Herring, Pennatronics Corp
>
> Week 88 Leland Woodall
>
> Week 89 Tom Carroll, Boeing
>
> Week 90 Tom Brendlinger
>
> Week 91 Leland Woodall
>
> Week 90 David Bealer
>
> Week 91 Leland Woodall
>
> Week 92 David Bealer
>
> Week 93 Leland Woodall
>
> Week 94 Eray Canli, Nurol BAE Systems
>
> Week 95 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
>
> Week 96 Bev Christian
>
> Week 96 Torsten Hagge, Kristronics
>
> Week 97 Russell Kido, Practical Components
>
> Week 98 Bhanu Sood, NASA
>
> Week 99 Robert Wolfe
>
> Week 100 Steve Gregory
>
> Week 101  Dean Vinke, Blue Canyon Technologies
>
> Week 102  Steve Herring, Pennatronics Corp
>
>
> Week 103 Raye Rivera
>
> - I'm looking forward to having the guys out here in sunny Southern 
> California, where it happens to be pouring rain at the moment. But it 
> is nothing the John Deere can't handle. They can help me sort out some 
> mechanical tolerance issues that are holding up production. And if 
> they didn't get enough skiing in at Arapahoe Basin, our local area, 
> Big Bear, is supposed to open on Friday.
>
>
> Week 104 Carl Van Wormer
>
> - I'll ask them to spend the first 12.7 seconds trying to find my lost 
> atom of darmstadtium-281, and then I'll have them spot me at the I-Fly 
> vertical wind tunnel.  After that, we'll head over to the electric 
> go-carts at K-1 Speed, with the 2 losers assigned to assemble the next 
> batch of ShortSniffers.  They are pretty good at assembly work as long 
> as they are supplied with pepperoni pizza, dark-German root beer and 
> loud rock-n-roll from the 60s and 70s.
>
>
> Week 105 ????
>
> - assisted with ????
>
>
> I hope everyone has an awesome week!
> Dave Hillman
> Collins Aerospace
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