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Mcbirneyite Lammerite & Lyonsite

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Mcbirneyite Lammerite & Lyonsite

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Description
Locality: 
Yadovitaya Fumarole, Second Scoria Cone, Great Fissure, Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka Krai, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1.7 × 1.3 cm
Description

Mcbirneyite is a very rare copper-vanadate mineral, forms tiny black crystals as inclusions or epitaxially grown with green stacked grown lammerite.

The associating minerals are tiny black-red lyonsite needles, emerald green piypite needles and rich black microcrystalline coatings of hematite and orange microcrystalline coating of antimony bearing rutile. Very interesting and super rare combination.
 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mcbirneyite

Formula: 
Cu3(VO4)2
Strunz: 
8.AB.35
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Izalco Volcano, Sonsonate Department, El Salvador

Lammerite

Formula: 
Cu3(AsO4)2
Strunz: 
8.AB.30
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Laurani Mine, Laurani District, Aroma Province, La Paz Department, Bolivia

Lyonsite

Formula: 
Cu3Fe4(VO4)6
Strunz: 
8.AB.40
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Izalco Volcano, Sonsonate Department, El Salvador

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