Category Arsenate mineral Strunz classification 8.BB.60 Crystal system Monoclinic | Formula
(repeating unit) CuAlAsO5 Dana classification 38.05.09.02 | |
Crystal class Prismatic (2/m)
(same H-M symbol) | ||
Urusovite is a rare copper aluminium arsenate mineral with formula: CuAlAsO5. It is a monoclinic-prismatic light green mineral.
Its type locality and only reported occurrence is in the Novaya fumarole, Second scoria cone, North Breach, Great Fissure eruption, Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia. It was named after Vadim Sergeevich Urusov, crystal chemist of Moscow State University. It was approved by the International Mineralogical Association in 1998.
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