Mineral Specimen Images (V)

Vuonnemite: Na11Nb2TiSi4O12(PO4)2O5F2  
Lorenzenite: Na2Ti2Si2O9

Comments: Square vuonnemite crystal with brown, lorenzenite crystals in syenite rock.
Location: Ilimaussaq, Greenland. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Vuorelainenite: (Mn++,Fe++)(V+++,Cr+++)2O4

Comments: BSE image showing rutile (RT), vuorelainenite (VUO) and pyhrrhotite (PO). (CanMin, v20:281).
Location: Setra (Doverstorp) pyrite deposit in Bergslagen, Sweden. Scale: See Image.
© Canadian Mineralogist

Vuoriyarvite-K: (K,Na)2(Nb,Ti)2Si4O12(O,OH)2·4(H2O)

Comments: Light tan, compact mass of vuoryarvite-K micro-crystals associated with calcite and greenish sodalite.
Location: Vein No. 46, Kirovskii apatite mine (Kirovsky Mine; Kirov Mine), Kukisvumchorr Mt, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia. Scale: See Image.
© Rruff Database

Vurroite: Pb20Sn2(Bi,As)22S54Cl6

Comments: SEM image of a jack-straw aggregate of vurroite crystals. (CanMin, v43:703).
Location: Fumarole (400-600 deg C) Pb-Bi epithermal deposit of La Fossa crater, on Vulcano Island, Italy. Scale: See Image.
© Canadian Mineralogist

Vyalsovite: FeS·Ca(OH)2·Al(OH)3

Comments: Purplish vyalsovite. Polished section from microbrobe analysis, in reflected light, parallel nicols.
Location: Komsomolskaya Mine, Talnakh, Norilsk, Russia. Scale: Picture size 0.1 mm.
© Thomas Witzke

Vysotskite: (Pd,Ni)S  
Osmium: (Os,Ir)  
Cooperite: (Pt,Pd,Ni)S  
Vasilite: (Pd,Cu)16(S,Te)7

Comments: BSE image taken with a SEM of the sulfide-dominant microparagenesis filling a gas vacuole. Cooperite crystal surrounded by Pd-Cu-Pt-S phase (vasilite?), vysotskite and osmium laths (white) in chalcopyrite-bornite matrix (dark). (CanMin 38:1258).
Location: Pustaya River placer deposit, situated within the Koryak-Kamchatka platinum-bearing belt of Alaskan-type intrusions in eastern Russia. Scale: See Image.
© Canadian Mineralogist

Vysotskite: (Pd,Ni)S  
Laflammeite: Pd3Pb2S2

Comments: SEM image showing intergrowths of laflammeite (LF) with complexly zoned vysotskite (VS). The surrounding material is epoxy (black). (CanMin, v40:671).
Location: Kirakkajuppura PGE deposit, Penikat layered complex, Finland. Scale: See Image.
© Canadian Mineralogist