Well attestedNamed from the place
fianelite
noun · first attested 1996
A single small Alpine manganese mine produced a vanadate found nowhere else.
A hydrated manganese vanadate arsenate, Mn2V(V,As)O7.2H2O.
46.5500°N 9.4333°E · Q870012
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- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1996
- Part of speech
- noun
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Val Ferrera
- In English
fianelite
J. Brugger and P. Berlepsch described fianelite in American Mineralogist in 1996 from the Fianel mine in Val Ferrera, Graubunden. The type material is at the Natural History Museum in Basel. Val Ferrera's manganese deposits are metamorphosed sediments, which is why they carry vanadium rather than the usual Alpine ore suite.
Switzerland
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