Where it forms, where it's found
- Geological setting
Hydrothermal uranium and vanadium deposit.
- Type locality
- Mounana Mine
- Mounana
- Léboumbi-Leyou Department
- Haut-Ogooué Province
- Gabon
-1.4333°, 13.1500°
4recorded occurrences
Radioactivity
Physical
Optical
- Optical type
- Biaxial
- UV response
- Not fluorescent in UV
Crystallography
- Cell parameters
- a = 10.46(3) Å · b = 8.44(3) Å · c = 10.43(3) Å
- Cell angles
- α = 75.88(33) ° · β = 102.83(33) ° · γ = 90.00(33) °
- Ratio a:b:c
- 1 : 0.807 : 0.997
- Z
- 2
- Morphology
Bladed crystals with oblique termination, usually in somewhat radial aggregates.
- Type-locality form
Yellow bladed crystals usually in radial clusters.
- Comment
Point Group: _1 or 1; Space Group: P_1 or P1.
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- IMA1970-003
- Metavanuraliet
In other languages
- German
- IMA 1970-003 · Metavanuralit
- Italian
- Metavanuralite
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.4.HB.20
- 4OxidesClass
- 4.HV[5,6] VanadatesDivision
- 4.HBUranyl SorovanodatesGroup
- 4.HB.20MetavanuraliteSpecies
Dana
8th ed.42.11.13.02
- 42Hydrated Phosphates, Etc.containing Hydroxyl or HalogenClass
- 42.11(AB)3(XO4)2Zq·xH2OType
- 42.11.13Vanuralite GroupGroup
- 42.11.13.02MetavanuraliteSpecies
CIM
—21.4.11
- 21Vanadates (and vanadates with arsenate or phosphate)Class
- 21.4Vanadates of U, Mn, Fe or NiGroup
- 21.4.11MetavanuraliteSpecies
Group, growth & confusion
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- 1970Cesbron, Fabien (1970) Nouvelles données sur la vanuralite. Existence de la méta˗vanuralite. Bulletin de Minéralogie, 93 (2) 242-248 doi:10.3406/bulmi.1970.6459DOI: 10.3406/bulmi.1970.6459
- 1971Fleischer, Michael (1971) New Mineral Names. American Mineralogist, 56 (3-4) 631-640
- 2005(2005) Metavanuralite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Metavanuralite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/metavanuralite-2693},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}