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Stibivanite & Scainiite

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Stibivanite & Scainiite

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Description
Locality: 
Buca Della Vena Mine, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1.1 × 1.4 cm
Description

some tiny green crystals of stibivanite on dolomite with black scainiite from the type locality of both

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

Scainiite

Formula: 
Pb14Sb30S54O5
Strunz: 
2.JB.35b
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Buca della Vena Mine, Ponte Stazzemese, Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy