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Vesbine from
Mount Vesuvius, Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy
| Locality type: | Stratovolcano | |
| Classification | ||
|---|---|---|
| Species: | 'Vesbine' (not an IMA approved species) | |
| Comments: | According to Balassone et al. (2019), the yellow-grenish concretions and incrustations of "vesbine", a substance described for the first time by Scacchi (1879) on the so-called lava of 1631 eruption, have a non-constant composition: the more common concretions and incrustations, that show a texture with a distinct colloform growth banding, are composed of mottramite and chrysocolla plus vanadinite (the presence of microcrystals of the rare vanadate starovaite in association with mottramite+chrysocolla+atacamite is also reported); volborthite incrustations are more rare and, at least in the analyzed material, appear at SEM scale as platy crystals of ca. 10 μm in length. | |
| Confirmation | ||
| Validity: | Believed Valid | |
| Data | ||
| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Vesbine data | |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Mount Vesuvius, Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy | |
| Data Identifiers | ||
| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 1462132 | |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:1462132:3 | |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 0 | |
| References | ||
Balassone, Giuseppina, Petti, Carmela, Mondillo, Nicola, Panikorovskii, Taras L., de Gennaro, Roberto, Cappelletti, Piergiulio, Altomare, Angela, Corriero, Nicola, Cangiano, Maria, D’Orazio, Loredana (2019) Copper Minerals at Vesuvius Volcano (Southern Italy): A Mineralogical Review. Minerals, 9 (12) 730 doi:10.3390/min9120730 | ||
Mount Vesuvius, Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy