Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.
Vauquelinite is a complex mineral with the formula CuPb2(CrO4)(PO4)(OH) making it a combined chromate and phosphate of copper and lead. It forms a series with the arsenate mineral fornacite.It was first described in 1818 in the Beryozovskoye deposit Urals Russia and named for Louis Vauquelin (1763–1829) a French chemist. It occurs in oxidized hydrothermal ore deposits and is associated with crocoite pyromorphite mimetite cerussite beudantite and duftite at the type locality in Russia.
