Where it forms, where it's found
- Type locality
- Mounana Mine
- Mounana
- Léboumbi-Leyou Department
- Haut-Ogooué Province
- Gabon
-1.4333°, 13.1500°
4recorded occurrences
Crystallography
- Space group
- #44
- Cell parameters
- a = 2.995 Å · b = 4.820 Å · c = 14.800 Å
- Ratio a:b:c
- 1 : 1.609 : 4.942
- Z
- 2
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- IMA1970-002
- Lenobliet
In other languages
- German
- Lenoblit
- Italian
- Lenoblite
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.4.HG.60
- 4OxidesClass
- 4.HV[5,6] VanadatesDivision
- 4.HGUnclassified V oxidesGroup
- 4.HG.60LenobliteSpecies
Dana
8th ed.04.04.17.01
- 04Simple OxidesClass
- 04.04AX2Type
- 04.04.17— unnamed intermediate level —Group
- 04.04.17.01LenobliteSpecies
CIM
—7.12.7
- 7Oxides and HydroxidesClass
- 7.12Oxides of V, Nb and TaGroup
- 7.12.7LenobliteSpecies
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- 1970Cesbron, Fabien, Vachey, Hélène (1970) La lenoblite, nouvel oxyde hydraté de vanadium (IV) Bulletin de Minéralogie, 93 (2) 235-241 doi:10.3406/bulmi.1970.6458DOI: 10.3406/bulmi.1970.6458
- 1971Smyslova, I.G. and Shitov, V.A. (1971): Lenoblite from Kyzyl-Kum. Second find in the world. Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva 100, 488-491 (in Russian).
- 1977Theobald, F. (1977): A comparison of natural and synthetic vanadium oxyhydroxides. Bulletin de la Société Chimique de France 1977 (9-10, Pt. 1), 803-807.
- 2005(2005) Lenoblite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Lenoblite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/lenoblite-2376},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}