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Lyonsite

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Description
Locality: 
Ronneburg Uranium Deposit, Gera, Thuringia, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1.1 × 0.4 cm
Description

Dark red to black lyonsite associated with minor orange-yellow hummerite and red ronneburgite.

Ex. Buchholz collection. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lyonsite

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