manganvesuvianite
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Manganvesuvianite is a rare mineral with formula . The mineral is red to nearly black in color. Discovered in South Africa and described in 2002, it was so named for the prevalence of manganese in its composition and its relation to vesuvianite.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Manganvesuvianite
- Mineral.category
- Sorosilicates
- Mineral.image
- Manganvesuvianite-122296.jpg
- Mineral.caption
- Manganvesuvianite from Wessels Mine, Northern Cape Province, South Africa (4.2 x 3.9 x 3.3 cm)
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Mnves
- Mineral.strunz
- 9.BG.35
- Mineral.dana
- 58.02.04.04
- Mineral.system
- Tetragonal
- Mineral.class
- Dipyramidal (4/m) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P4/n
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 15.575 Å, c = 11.824 Å, Z = 2
- Mineral.color
- Deep red-brown, red, nearly black
- Mineral.cleavage
- None observed
- Mineral.fracture
- Conchoidal
- Mineral.mohs
- 6 to 7
- Mineral.luster
- Vitreous
- Mineral.refractive
- nω = 1.735, nε = 1.724
- Mineral.opticalprop
- Uniaxial (-)
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- manganese
- Image
- Manganvesuvianite-122296.jpg
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- crystal system
- tetragonal crystal system
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.BG.35
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.BG.35
- Commons category
- Manganvesuvianite
- streak color
- white
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Mnves
- chemical formula
- Ca₁₉Mn³⁺(Al,Mn³⁺,Fe³⁺)₁₀(Mg,Mn²⁺)₂(Si₂O₇)₄(SiO₄)₁₀O(OH)₉
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Occurrence and formation
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Manganvesuvianite is a rare mineral with formula . The mineral is red to nearly black in color. Discovered in South Africa and described in 2002, it was so named for the prevalence of manganese in its composition and its relation to vesuvianite.
==Occurrence and formation== Manganvesuvianite crystals occur as long prisms up to . Small crystals are transparent and red to lilac in color; large crystals are opaque and nearly black in color with dark-red internal reflections. Strongly zoned crystals less than in size constitute rock-forming manganvesuvianite.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “manganvesuvianite” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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