ولکانیت
Sign in to saveVulcanite is a rare copper telluride mineral. The mineral has a metallic luster, and has a green or bronze-yellow tint. It has a hardness between 1 and 2 on the Mohs scale (between talc and gypsum). Its crystal structure is orthorhombic.
Key facts
- Mineral.twinning
- Common
- Mineral.name
- Vulcanite
- Mineral.category
- Telluride mineral
- Mineral.image
- Vulcanite.png
- Mineral.caption
- Vulcanite from Good Hope Mine, Colorado, U.S.
- Mineral.formula
- CuTe
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Vul
- Mineral.strunz
- 2.CB.75
- Mineral.color
- Pale to yellow bronze
- Mineral.habit
- Massive, granular, tabular
- Mineral.system
- Orthorhombic
- Mineral.class
- Dipyramidal (mmm) H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Pmnm
- Mineral.cleavage
- [hk0] Good, [h0l] Indistinct
- Mineral.fracture
- Sectile – Curved shavings or scrapings produced by a knife blade
- Mineral.mohs
- 1–2
- Mineral.luster
- Metallic
- Mineral.pleochroism
- Very strong, bright yellow to blue-gray
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- sulfide class of minerals
- Image
- Vulcanite.jpg
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- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Vul
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.CB.75
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.CB.75
- chemical formula
- CuTe
- Commons category
- Vulcanite
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- II/B.15 – Anhang
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