Vanadium minerals

• Class: Non-Ferrous Metals (or iron group)Group: Rare MetalsSubgroup: Rare Refractory Metals & Rare Trace MetalsMetal: Vanadium (V)Vanadium also occurs in more than 80 other minerals.To extract the vanadium (V) industrial importance is the following minerals: Patrónite

• Vanadinite

• Carnotite

• Descloizite

• Roscoelite

• Tyuyamunite

• Mottramite

Vanadium is extracted from the following minerals too:

• Alvanite

• Barnesite

• Calderónite

• Cavansite

• Colusite

• Curienite

• Fingerite

• Francevillite

• Fritzscheite

• Germanocolusite

• Goldmanite

• Gottlobite

• Häggite

• Kainotropite

• Karelianite

• Mannardite

• Margaritasite

• Mathesiusite

• Melanovanadite

• Mounanaite

• Namibite

• Native vanadium

• Nekrasovite

• Pascoite

• Pottsite

• Pucherite

• Ronneburgite

• Schreyerite

• Sengierite

• Shcherbinaite

• Sincosite

• Stibiocolusite

• Strelkinite

• Sulvanite

• Tangeite

• Vanadiocarpholite

• Vesignieite

• Volborthite

• Wakefieldite

• Yushkinite

Vanadium can be extracted also from these minerals in the form of impurities:

• Magnetite

• Ilmenite

• Rutil

• Titanite

Vanadium is also present in:

• Vanadium-bearing magnetite

• Bauxite

• Deposits of crude oil, coal, oil shale and tar sands

CLASSIFICATION OF MINERALS CONTAINING VANADIUM

NATIVE: Native vanadium

SULFIDES and SULFOSALTS: Patrónite, Colusite, Germanocolusite, Nekrasovite, Stibiocolusite, Sulvanite

OXIDES: Carnotite, Tyuyamunite, Barnesite, Curienite, Francevillite, Fritzscheite, Häggite, Karelianite, Mannardite, Margaritasite, Melanovanadite, Pascoite, Schreyerite, Sengierite, Shcherbinaite, Strelkinite

PHOSPHATES, ARSENATES, VANADATES: Vanadinite, Descloizite, Mottramite, Alvanite, Calderónite, Fingerite, Gottlobite, Mounanaite, Namibite, Pottsite, Pucherite, Ronneburgite, Sincosite, Tangeite, Vesignieite, Volborthite, Wakefieldite

SILICATES: Roscoelite, Cavansite, Goldmanite