Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.
Urusovite is a rare copper aluminium arsenate mineral with formula: CuAlAsO5. It is a monoclinic-prismatic light green mineral. It’s 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.