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Fingerite is a copper vanadate mineral with formula: β-Cu2V2O5. It was discovered as triclinic crystals occurring as volcanic sublimates around fumaroles in the crater of the Izalco Volcano, El Salvador.

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Associated minerals include thenardite, euchlorine, stoiberite, shcherbinaite, ziesite, bannermanite, chalcocyanite and chalcanthite.[2] The mineral also dissolves in water.[5]

Fingerite is named for Dr. Larry W. Finger (1940–2024[6]) of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington.

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