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Stibivanite

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Stibivanite

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Description
Locality: 
Monte Arsiccio Mine, Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Stazzema, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3 × 1.5 cm
Description

Groups of green prismatic crystals of rare stibivanite with good shape and excellent crystal quality. Crystals of this excellent quality have only been found once in this location and are probably among the best for this rare antimony and vanadium oxide. There are even more groups of lesser importance than the principal on the matrix. Excellent specimen.

 

 

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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

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