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Villiaumite

Villiaumite

VilliaumiteSCIENCE / MINERALOGYVilliaumite is sodium fluoride, NaF, an isometric mineral that can form red, carmine, pink, colorless, or orange cubic and granular material.GEOLOGY & FORMATIONIt occurs in rare highly alkaline...

Villiaumite

VilliaumiteSCIENCE / MINERALOGYVilliaumite is sodium fluoride, NaF, an isometric mineral that can form red, carmine, pink, colorless, or orange cubic and granular material.GEOLOGY & FORMATIONIt occurs in rare highly alkaline...

Veszelyite

Veszelyite

VeszelyiteSCIENCE / MINERALOGYVeszelyite is a rare hydrated copper-zinc phosphate hydroxide mineral, famous for vivid blue to blue-green prismatic crystals.GEOLOGY & FORMATIONIt is a secondary mineral in oxidized copper-zinc deposits, where...

Veszelyite

VeszelyiteSCIENCE / MINERALOGYVeszelyite is a rare hydrated copper-zinc phosphate hydroxide mineral, famous for vivid blue to blue-green prismatic crystals.GEOLOGY & FORMATIONIt is a secondary mineral in oxidized copper-zinc deposits, where...

Vesuvianite

Vesuvianite

VesuvianiteSCIENCE / MINERALOGYVesuvianite, also called idocrase, is a complex calcium magnesium aluminum silicate mineral that crystallizes in the tetragonal system. It occurs in green, brown, yellow, purple, blue, and other...

Vesuvianite

VesuvianiteSCIENCE / MINERALOGYVesuvianite, also called idocrase, is a complex calcium magnesium aluminum silicate mineral that crystallizes in the tetragonal system. It occurs in green, brown, yellow, purple, blue, and other...

Vera Cruz Amethyst

Vera Cruz Amethyst

Vera Cruz AmethystSCIENCE / MINERALOGYVera Cruz Amethyst is a natural mineral, rock, fossil, or trade material recognized in the crystal and lapidary market. Its exact mineralogical identity is best described...

Vera Cruz Amethyst

Vera Cruz AmethystSCIENCE / MINERALOGYVera Cruz Amethyst is a natural mineral, rock, fossil, or trade material recognized in the crystal and lapidary market. Its exact mineralogical identity is best described...

Vatican Stone (Frosterley Marble)

Vatican Stone (Frosterley Marble)

Vatican Stone (Frosterley Marble)SCIENCE / MINERALOGYFrosterley Marble, sometimes marketed as Vatican Stone, is a dark fossiliferous Carboniferous limestone rather than true metamorphic marble. Pale fossil corals and other calcite fossils...

Vatican Stone (Frosterley Marble)

Vatican Stone (Frosterley Marble)SCIENCE / MINERALOGYFrosterley Marble, sometimes marketed as Vatican Stone, is a dark fossiliferous Carboniferous limestone rather than true metamorphic marble. Pale fossil corals and other calcite fossils...

Variscite

Variscite

VarisciteSCIENCE / MINERALOGYVariscite is hydrated aluminum phosphate, AlPO₄·2H₂O, commonly apple green, blue-green, pale green, white, or brown in nodules, veins, crusts, and rare crystals.GEOLOGY & FORMATIONIt forms as a secondary...

Variscite

VarisciteSCIENCE / MINERALOGYVariscite is hydrated aluminum phosphate, AlPO₄·2H₂O, commonly apple green, blue-green, pale green, white, or brown in nodules, veins, crusts, and rare crystals.GEOLOGY & FORMATIONIt forms as a secondary...