Vanadinite on Descloizite
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Vanadinite on Descloizite
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- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 12.5 x 7 x 5 cm - Cabinet
- Formula
- Pb5(VO4)3Cl (RRUFF)
- Locality
- Chalk Mountain mine, Churchill Co., Nevada, United States
- Tagged
- vanadium
Flaming orange globular Descloizite with silver, sharply pointed, acicular Vanadinite crystals to 1mm. Superb specimen from the late Willard L. Roberts, author of Encyclopedia of Minerals.
Willard Roberts' label - though it erroneously identified as Pyromorphite (it could go both ways really).
Vanadinite
- Formula
- Pb5(VO4)3Cl
- Crystal System
- Hexagonal
- Crystal Habit
- Globular, Prismatic, Nodular
- Cleavage
- None, None, None
- Luster
- Adamantine
- Color
- brown, brownish yellow, brown red, colorless, yellow
- Streak
- brownish yellow
- Class
- Hexagonal - Dipyramidal
- Fracture
- Brittle - Conchoidal
- Hardness
- 3.5-4
Data courtesy of Webmineral.
- Collection
- Willard L. Roberts Collection
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