Ikranite is a member of the eudialyte group, named after the Shubinov Institute of Crystallography of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

[5] This group is growing exponentially, with 17 members having been written about since 2000, and the chemical possibility of several thousand species that have yet to be discovered.

The most prominent of these characteristics is the absence of sodium in its structure, along with the replacement of divalent iron with the trivalent form.

[4] Ikranite was first discovered on Mount Karnasurt (Kola Peninsula) in an agpaitic pegmatite, in the form of 1–2 cm grains.

Ikranite also holds a significant amount of water in the space between the rings where an Na molecule is usually found.