Category Phosphate mineral Strunz classification 7.FC.05 Space group P21/n | Formula(repeating unit) CuPb2(CrO4)(PO4)(OH) Crystal system Monoclinic | |
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Crystal class Prismatic (2/m)(same H-M symbol) | ||
Vauquelinite is a complex mineral with the formula CuPb2(CrO4)(PO4)(OH) making it a combined chromate and phosphate of copper and lead. It forms a series with the arsenate mineral fornacite.
It was first described in 1818 in the Beryozovskoye deposit, Urals, Russia, and named for Louis Vauquelin (1763–1829), a French chemist. It occurs in oxidized hydrothermal ore deposits and is associated with crocoite, pyromorphite, mimetite, cerussite, beudantite and duftite at the type locality in Russia.
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