Bright yellow crystals of the extremely rare mineral vandermeerscheite (IMA 2017-104) from the type localty in Eifel: Schellkopf Mountain, Brenk, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Vandermeerscheite is a K-U vanadium oxide found only in the type locality. Specimen, analyzed by Gunter Blass. Associated minerals are phillipsite, fluorite and calcite. — Photo: David Hospital · CC BY-SA 4.0
Vandermeerscheite
Vandermeerscheite is an IMA-recognized mineral species in the vanadate class, with the chemical formula K₂[(UO₂)₂V₂O₈]·2H₂O.
It crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system (space group P2_1/n).
IMA symbol Vme, IMA status: approved, named in 2018.
Index entry. This entry combines official IMA/RRUFF species data with published physical-property data — a full written entry hasn’t been published yet.
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