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Key facts

Mineral.boxbgcolor

747827

Mineral.boxtextcolor

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Mineral.name

Vesuvianite

Mineral.category

Sorosilicate

Mineral.image

Vesuvianite-242685.jpg

Mineral.caption

Vesuvianite from the Jeffrey Mine in Val-des-Sources, Quebec

Mineral.formula

Ca10(Mg, Fe)2Al4(SiO4)5(Si2O7)2(OH,F)4

Mineral.IMAsymbol

Ves

Mineral.strunz

9.BG.35

Mineral.system

Tetragonal

Mineral.class

Ditetragonal dipyramidal (4/mmm) H-M symbol: (4/m 2/m 2/m)

Mineral.symmetry

P4/nnc

Mineral.unit cell

a = 15.52 Å, c = 11.82 Å Z = 2

Mineral.color

Yellow, green, brown; colorless to white, brown-black, light green, emerald green, violet, blue-green to blue, pink, purple, red, black, commonly zoned

Mineral.habit

Short pyramidal to long prismatic crystals common, massive to columnar

Mineral.twinning

Fine twin domains observed

Mineral.cleavage

Poor on {110} and {100} very poor on {001}

Mineral.fracture

Sub conchoidal to irregular

via Wikipedia infobox