Native vanadium is the mineral form of the metal
vanadium
Vanadium is a chemical element with the symbol V and atomic number 23. It is a hard, silvery-grey, malleable transition metal. The elemental metal is rarely found in nature, but once isolated artificially, the formation of an oxide layer ( pas ...
, with the accepted name "vanadium". This exceedingly rare mineral was found among fumaroles of the
Colima Volcano. Fumaroles of Colima are known of being vanadium-rich, depositing other vanadium minerals, that include shcherbinaite (V
2O
5) and
colimaite (K
3VS
4).
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Native element minerals
Vanadium minerals