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#Cavansite with #Stilbite - Wagholi Quarries, Maharashtra, #India - 6.2cm

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#Cavansite with #Stilbite - Wagholi Quarries, Maharashtra, #India - 6.2cm

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#Cavansite with #Stilbite - Wagholi Quarries, Maharashtra, #India - 6.2cm

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#Cavansite with #Stilbite - Wagholi Quarries, Maharashtra, #India - 6.2cm

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#Cavansite with #Stilbite - Wagholi Quarries, Maharashtra, #India - 6.2cm

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Awesome #Calcite with #Cavansite from Wagholi, Pune District, Maharashtra, #India

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The Deccan Traps voluminous eruptions 66 million years ago, so large they caused an extinction event, are why the best #cavansite in the world is found in India. #MinCup23

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/pune-know-your-city-cavansite-a-rare-turquoise-hued-mineral-unique-to-pune-7667436/

My vote goes to #cavansite today. Its name is derived from the calcium, vanadium, and silica it contains, & its color is a vibrant & stable blue that you can display on a shelf (unlike its competitor). This is a stalactite from India, which is pretty darn cool, too. #MinCup23

#Cavansite is also blue and contains crystal water, but it is a silicate with the chemical composition Ca[V(+IV)O|Si4O10] · 4H2O. The name comes from the calcium and vanadium cations it contains. Isn't it beautiful?

I am all about learning new things and also I have to deal with V-containing materials at work quite a lot, hence my vote goes to #Cavansite.

📷 Parent Géry

Hmmm. #vivianite vs #cavansite is not a very chaotic matchup at all - they're both very pretty and fairly rare, the latter moreso than the former, but not very chaotic.

Cavansite owes its gorgeous blue to vanadium, but it's too rare to be a common ore, so it's more usually a collector's mineral. And vanadium isn't really much fuss until you process it, as far as I can tell; just exercise a little common sense in handling, per most minerals. (c) #MinCup23

#Cavansite #MinCup23 #SkyBlue

https://www.mindat.org/min-921.html