urusovite

Also known as IMA1998-067

Urusovite is a rare copper aluminium arsenate mineral with formula: CuAlAsO5. It is a monoclinic-prismatic light green mineral.

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Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update): 8.BB.60
Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009): 8.BB.60
Commons category: Urusovite
IMA Mineral Symbol: Uusv
chemical formula: CuAlO(AsO₄)

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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.