Mineralpedia Details for Urusovite
Urusovite
- Formula
- CuAlO(AsO4)
- Crystal System
- Monoclinic
- Crystal Habit
- Platy, Microscopic Crystals
- Cleavage
- Perfect, None, None
- Luster
- Vitreous (Glassy)
- Color
- light green
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Monoclinic - Prismatic
- Fracture
- Brittle
- Hardness
- 4
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Urusovite from Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia
- Special Info
- XRD Confirmed,EDS Confirmed,Type & Only Locality
A more specific locality from the author is: Arsenatnaya fumarole, Second scoria cone, Northern Breakthrough, Great Fissure eruption of the Tolbachik volcano. Urusovite is the pastal green masses and crystalline grains throughout the spongy matrix. There is a dark green mineral also, although it is certainly one of the many green minerals from this fumarole, which contains 19 type locality minerals.
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