page_title: List of minerals approved by IMA (U–V)
section_title: V
hierarchical_section_title: List of minerals approved by IMA (U–V) / V
caption_attribution_description: English: Vauxite, Paravauxite Locality: Siglo Veinte Mine (Siglo XX Mine; Llallagua Mine; Catavi), Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia (Locality at mindat.org) Size: 7.0 x 5.5 x 2.5 cm. From the new find of 2009, this is another great discovery for this locality. This particular piece is a remarkable, very well crystallized, very rare, specimen consisting of small, bladed, beautiful blue color, radiating aggregates of Vauxite hosting a pale greenish Paravauxite on minor clay (probably decomposed Allophane) matrix. It is very difficult to obtain any specimens of this incredibly beautiful phosphate and to find two "Vauxite" species together on one piece is fantastic. This piece is from the type locality for Vauxite and Paravauxite which were originally discovered along the Contacto and San Jose veins in this mine and first described by Sam Gordon and Mark Bandy. Deutsch: Vauxit, Paravauxit Fundort: Siglo Veinte Mine (Siglo XX Mine; Llallagua Mine; Catavi), Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo, Potosí , Bolivien (Fundort bei mindat.org) Größe: 7.0 x 5.5 x 2.5 cm.
context_page_description: This list includes those recognised minerals beginning with the letters U and V. The International Mineralogical Association is the international group that recognises new minerals and new mineral names, however minerals discovered before 1959 did not go through the official naming procedure, although some minerals published previously have been either confirmed or discredited since that date. This list contains a mixture of mineral names that have been approved since 1959 and those mineral names believed to still refer to valid mineral species.
  The list is divided into groups:
  Introduction •
  A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • M • N • O • P–Q • R • S • T • U–V • W–X • Y–Z
  The data was exported from mindat.org on 29 April 2005; updated up to 'IMA2019'.
  The minerals are sorted by name, followed by the structural group or chemical class, the year of publication, the IMA approval and the Nickel–Strunz code. The first link is to mindat.org, the second link is to webmineral.com, and the third is to the Handbook of Mineralogy.
  Abbreviations:
  ᴰ – discredited.
  Q – questionable/ doubtful.
context_section_description: Vaesite (pyrite: 1945) 2.EB.05a    
  (IUPAC: nickel disulfide)
  Vajdakite (IMA1998-031) 4.JC.20   [no] 
  (IUPAC: di(dioxomolybdate(VI)) diarsenic(III) pentaoxide trihydrate)
  Valentinite (IMA1980 s.p., 1845) 4.CB.55    
  (IUPAC: diantimony trioxide)
  Valleriite (valleriite: 1871) 2.FD.30   
  Valleyite (sodalite: IMA2017-026) 4.0  [no] [no] 
  (IUPAC: tetracalcium hexairon tridecaoxide)
  Vanackerite (apatite: IMA2011-114) 8.0  [no] [no] 
  (IUPAC: tetralead cadmium (chloro,hydro) triarsenate)
  Vanadinite (apatite: 1838) 8.BN.05    
  (IUPAC: pentalead chloro trivanadate)
  Vanadiocarpholite (carpholite: IMA2003-055) 9.DB.05   [no] 
  (IUPAC: manganese(II) vanadium(III) aluminium hexaoxodisilicate tetrahydroxyl)
  Vanadio-oxy-chromium-dravite (tourmaline: IMA2012-034) 9.CK.  [no] [no]
  Vanadio-oxy-dravite (tourmaline: IMA2012-074) 9.CK.  [no] [no]
  Vanadiopargasite (Ca-amphibole: IMA2017-019) 9.D  [no] [no]
  Vanadium (iron: IMA2012-021a) 1.AE.  [no] [no]
  Vanadoallanite-(La) (epidote: IMA2012-095) 9.B?.  [no] [no]
  Vanadoandrosite-(Ce) (epidote, allanite: IMA2004-015) 9.BG.05   
  Vanadomalayaite (titanite: IMA1993-032) 9.AG.15   [no] 
  (IUPAC: calcium vanadium oxy(tetraoxysilicate))
  Vanalite (IMA1967 s.p., 1962) 4.HG.15   
  Vanarsite (polyoxometalate: IMA2014-031) 4.0  [no] [no]
  Vandenbrandeite (Y: 1932) 4.GB.45    
  (IUPAC: copper uranyl tetrahydroxide)
  Vandendriesscheite (Y: 1947) 4.GB.40   
  Vanderheydenite (IMA2014-076) 8.0  [no] [no] 
  (IUPAC: hexazinc diphosphate tetrahydro sulfate heptahydrate)
  Vandermeerscheite (IMA2017-104) 8.0  [no] [no]
  Vaniniite (IMA2017-116) 8.0  [no] [no]
  Vanmeersscheite (IMA1981-009) 8.EC.20    
  VanoxiteQ (Y: 1925) 4.HG.25    
  (IUPAC: tetravanadium(IV) divanadium(V) tridecaoxide octahydrate)
  Vantasselite (IMA1986-016) 8.DC.37    
  (IUPAC: tetraluminium trihydro triphosphate nonahydrate)
  Vanthoffite (Y: 1902) 7.AC.05    
  (IUPAC: hexasodium magnesium tetrasulfate)
  Vanuralite (IMA1967 s.p., 1963) 4.HB.20    
  (IUPAC: aluminium diuranyl hydro divanadate (8.5)hydrate)
  Vapnikite (double perovskite: IMA2013-082) 4.00.  [no]  
  (IUPAC: dicalcium calcium uranium hexaoxide)
  Varennesite (IMA1994-017) 9.EE.50   [no]
  Variscite (IMA1967 s.p., 1837) 8.CD.10    
  (IUPAC: aluminium phosphate dihydrate)
  VarlamoffiteQ (rutile: 1947) 4.DB.05  [no] [no] 
  Note: possibly a variety of cassiterite.
  Varulite (alluaudite: 1937) 8.AC.10    
  (IUPAC: disodium manganese (manganese iron(III)) triphosphate)
  Vashegyite (Y: 1909) 8.DB.10    
  (IUPAC: undecaaluminium hexahydro nonaphosphate octatriacontahydrate)
  Vasilite (IMA1989-044) 2.BC.25    
  ((Pd,Cu)₁₆(S,Te)₇)
  Vasilseverginite (IMA2015-083) 8.0  [no] [no] 
  (IUPAC: nonacopper tetraoxodiarsenate disulfate)
  Vasilyevite (IMA2003-016) 3.DD.45   [no] 
  (IUPAC: deca(dimercury) hexaoxide triodine diboron chloro carbonate)
  Västmanlandite-(Ce) (gatelite: IMA2002-025) 9.BG.55   [no]
  Vaterite (IMA1962 s.p., 1911) 5.AB.20    
  (IUPAC: anhydrous calcium carbonate)
  Vaughanite (IMA1987-055) 2.LA.20    
  (TlHgSb₄S₇)
  Vauquelinite (Y: 1818) 7.FC.05    
  (IUPAC: copper dilead hydro chromate phosphate)
  Vauxite (Y: 1922) 8.DC.35    
  (IUPAC: iron(II) dialumium dihydro diphosphate hexahydrate)
  Vavřínite (IMA2005-045) 2.CC.30   [no] 
  (IUPAC: dinickel antimonide ditelluride)
  Väyrynenite (Y: 1954) 8.BA.05    
  (IUPAC: beryllium manganese(II) hydro phosphate)
  Veatchite (Y: 1938) 6.EC.15   
  Veblenite (veblenite (Si₈O₂₂) ribbon: IMA2010-050) 9.0  [no] [no]
  Veenite (IMA1966-016) 2.HC.05d    
  (IUPAC: dilead diantimonide pentasulfide)
  Velikite (stannite: IMA1996-052) 2.CB.15a    
  (IUPAC: dicopper mercury tetrasulfa stannide)
  Vendidaite (IMA2012-089) 7.0  [no] [no] 
  (IUPAC: dialuminium trihydro chloro sulfate hexahydrate)
  Verbeekite (IMA2001-005) 2.EA.25    
  (IUPAC: lead diselenide)
  Verbierite (humite: IMA2015-089) 4.0  [no] [no] 
  (IUPAC: beryllium dichromium(III) titanium hexaoxide)
  Vergasovaite (vergasovaite: IMA1998-009) 7.BB.30    
  (IUPAC: tricopper oxomolybdate sulfate)
  Vermiculite (smectite-vermiculite: 1824) 9.EC.50   
  VernaditeQ (Y: 1937) 4.FE.40    
  Note: possibly random-stacked birnessite.
  Verneite (IMA2016-112) 3.0  [no] [no] 
  (IUPAC: 
caption: Vauxite from Siglo Veinte Mine (Siglo XX Mine; Llallagua Mine; Catavi), Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia
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