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Stanleyite & Minasragrite

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Stanleyite & Minasragrite

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Description
Locality: 
Ragra Mine, Cerro de Pasco, Pasco Department, Peru
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.3 × 1.2 cm
Description

Blue crystals of minasragrite associated to greenish crystals of stanleyite, Both are very rare vanadium sulphate minerals found in only two localities worldwide. Type locality for both minerals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Stanleyite

Formula: 
(V4+O)(SO4)·6H2O
Strunz: 
7.DE.50
Hardness: 
1.0 - 1.5
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Ragra Mine (Minasragra), Huayllay District, Pasco Province, Pasco Department, Peru

Minasragrite

Formula: 
(V4+O)(SO4)·5H2O
Strunz: 
7.DB.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Ragra Mine (Minasragra), Huayllay District, Pasco Province, Pasco Department, Peru

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