fingerite
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Fingerite is a copper vanadate mineral with formula: β-Cu2V2O5. It was discovered as triclinic crystals occurring as volcanic sublimates around fumaroles in the crater of the Izalco Volcano, El Salvador.
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- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 8.BB.80
- crystal system
- triclinic crystal system
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 8.BB.80
- type locality (geology)
- Izalco
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Fgr
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Fingerite is a copper vanadate mineral with formula: β-Cu2V2O5. It was discovered as triclinic crystals occurring as volcanic sublimates around fumaroles in the crater of the Izalco Volcano, El Salvador.
Associated minerals include thenardite, euchlorine, stoiberite, shcherbinaite, ziesite, bannermanite, chalcocyanite and chalcanthite. The mineral also dissolves in water.
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