Canvansite is a Calcium Vanadium Silicate Mineral that usually grows with other minerals and rocks. This rock is somewhat rare, and is transparent with an ocean blue color. Canvasite was named by taking the letters: CAlcium VANadium SIlicaTE This rock is most commonly found in Poona, India.
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| - Canvansite is a Calcium Vanadium Silicate Mineral that usually grows with other minerals and rocks. This rock is somewhat rare, and is transparent with an ocean blue color. Canvasite was named by taking the letters: CAlcium VANadium SIlicaTE This rock is most commonly found in Poona, India.
- Cavansite, whose name is derived from its chemical composition, calcium vanadium silicate, is a deep blue hydrous calcium vanadium phyllosilicate mineral, occurring as a secondary mineral in basaltic and andesitic rocks along with a variety of zeolite minerals. Discovered in 1967 in Malheur County, Oregon, cavansite is a relatively rare mineral. It is polymorphic with the even rarer mineral, pentagonite. It is most frequently found in Poona, India, in the Deccan Traps, a large igneous province.
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| - Cavansite in apophyllite from Wagholi, Poona, Maharashtra, India
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| - Canvansite is a Calcium Vanadium Silicate Mineral that usually grows with other minerals and rocks. This rock is somewhat rare, and is transparent with an ocean blue color. Canvasite was named by taking the letters: CAlcium VANadium SIlicaTE This rock is most commonly found in Poona, India.
- Cavansite, whose name is derived from its chemical composition, calcium vanadium silicate, is a deep blue hydrous calcium vanadium phyllosilicate mineral, occurring as a secondary mineral in basaltic and andesitic rocks along with a variety of zeolite minerals. Discovered in 1967 in Malheur County, Oregon, cavansite is a relatively rare mineral. It is polymorphic with the even rarer mineral, pentagonite. It is most frequently found in Poona, India, in the Deccan Traps, a large igneous province.
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