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Urusovite
Urusovite is a rare copper aluminium arsenate mineral with formula: CuAlAsO 5 . 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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Urusovite is a rare copper aluminium arsenate mineral with formula: CuAlAsO 5 . 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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