It is named because of its pink color, after the Russian word "zoria" which refers to the rosy hue of the sky at dawn.

[2] The Lovozero Massif is an area with an igneous mountain range, home to various types of minerals such as eudialyte, loparite, and natrosilitite.

Crystallographically, zorite belongs in the orthorhombic group, which has 3 axes, a, b, and c that are of unequal lengths (a≠b≠c) that form 90° with each other.

This quality is called pleochroism and zorite is rose along the x-axis, colorless along the y-axis, and bluish along the z-axis.

[11] Furthermore, because of its rarity, zorite is one of the collectors’ items coveted for its scarcity, as well as it being a valuable source to understanding silicate topology.