Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.
Patronite is the vanadium sulfide mineral with formula VS4. The material is usually described as V4+(S22-)2. Structurally it is a linear-chain compound with alternating bonding and nonbonding contacts between the vanadium centers. The vanadium is octa-coordinated which is an uncommon geometry for this metal.The mineral was first described in 1906 for an occurrence in a vanadium mine near Mina Ragra Junín Cerro de Pasco Peru.
