About Tangeite
Hydrated calcium copper vanadate, often olive green. It's associated with creativity, grounding, and stimulating the sacral chakra.
Primary Hues
Olive Green, Yellowish-Green, Brownish-Green, forms scaly aggregates or earthy coatings
Geological & Scientific Details
Tangeite is classified as a phosphate mineral mineral which typically crystallizes in the orthorhombic system. Its chemical formula is CaCu(VO4)(OH). Common crystal habits include rarely as short prismatic crystals, commonly as fibrous to botryoidal encrustations.
Key Geological Properties:
- Mineral Category: Phosphate mineral
- Chemical Formula: CaCu(VO4)(OH)
- IMA Symbol: Tg[1]
- Crystal System: Orthorhombic
- Predominant Geological Color: Yellow, yellow-green, olive green, green to dark green
- Crystal Habit: Rarely as short prismatic crystals, commonly as fibrous to botryoidal encrustations
- Cleavage: Perfect on {010}, good on {001}
- Luster: Vitreous, pearly on cleavage faces
- Streak: Light yellow green
Associated Minerals
- Volborthite
- Carnotite
- Tyuyamunite
- Malachite
- Azurite