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Turanite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Eureka County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 0.5 × 0.2 cm
Description

Green crystals of the very rare copper vanadate mineral turanite from one of the very few known localities worlwide

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Turanite

Formula: 
Cu5(VO4)2(OH)4
Strunz: 
8.BB.70
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic (?)
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Tyuya-Muyun Cu-V-U deposit (Radium Mine), Alai Range (Alay Range), Osh Oblast, Kyrgyzstan

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