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Stibivanite & Derbylite

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Stibivanite & Derbylite

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Description
Locality: 
Buca Della Vena Mine, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 3.5 × 2.1 cm
Description

A group of apple green stibivanite crystals from the type locality with black, elongated crystals of derbylite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Stibivanite

Formula: 
Sb2VO5
Strunz: 
4.JA.55
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic & Orthorhombic polytypes.
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Streak: 
Green
Type Locality: 
Lake George Antimony mine (Consolidated Durham mines; Resources Ltd. mine; Prince William mine; Brunswick mine), Lake George, Prince William Parish, York Co., New Brunswick, Canada

Derbylite

Formula: 
Fe3+4Ti3Sb3+O13(OH)
Strunz: 
4.JB.55
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
Brown
Type Locality: 
Tripuí (Tripuhy), Main district, Ouro Preto, Iron Quadrangle, Minas Gerais, Brazil