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Sample n° 2872

Minerals found in the sample

Mineral	Formula	Category	Subcategory	Importance
VOLBORTHITE	Cu3V2O7(OH)2•2H2O	vanadates	-	major

Description

Description: green coating on earthy mass

Information: Guillemin, C., 1956. Contribution à la minéralogie des arséniates, phosphates et vanadates de cuivre. II. Phosphates et vanadates de cuivre. Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie 79, 219-275.

Origin

• Country: Angola
• Region: Uige Province
• Locality: Mavoio

Specification

• Donors: Servicos de Geologia e Minas (Angola)
  Donation year: 1946
• Sampling year:
  Registration date:
• Quantity: 1
  Size: 3

• Dimension code 1>2>3: 3
  Quality code 1>2>3: 1
• Holotype: no
  Paratype: no
  Radioactive: no
• Thin section: no
  Chemical analysis: no
  X-Ray spectra: no

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