Mineralpedia Details for Schaferite

Schaferite

Formula: NaCa₂Mg₂(VO₄)₃
Crystal System: Isometric
Crystal Habit: Octahedral Crystals
Cleavage: None, None, None
Luster: Vitreous (Glassy)
Color: red, orange red
Streak: yellow
Class: Isometric - Hexoctahedral
Fracture: Conchoidal
Hardness: 5
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Schaferite from Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia

Special Info: XRD Confirmed,EDS Confirmed

Specifically the mineral's locality is: Arsenatnaya fumarole, Second scoria cone of the Northern Breakthrough of the Great Tolbachik Fissure Eruption, Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka, Russia.

The crystals are compact spherical aggregates forming orange clusters up to several millimeters on white anhydrite crystal crusts. These are larger and better than Eifel crystals.