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Barnesite & Schäferite

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Barnesite & Schäferite

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Description
Locality: 
Liebenbergite Dump, Sounion, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion District, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 1.8 × 1.4 cm
Description

Barnesite is a sodium-vanadate mineral, occurs as coatings of red fibrous masses on schäferite-nosean matrix

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Barnesite

Formula: 
(Na,Ca)V6O16·3H2O
Strunz: 
4.HG.45
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Cactus Rat Mine, Cisco, Yellow Cat District (W. part of Thompsons District), Grand Co., Utah, USA

Schäferite

Formula: 
Ca2NaMg2(VO4)3
Strunz: 
8.AC.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Caspar quarry, Bellerberg volcano, Ettringen, Mayen, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Loranth Minerals

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