Original description: ‘Хромдравит’ Румянцева, Е. В. [Rumуantseva, E. V.], 1983. Хромдравит — новый минерал из Карелии [Chromdravite — a new mineral from Karelia] — Записки Всесоюзного минералогического общества [Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva] 112 (2): 222—226 [
view in ‘Library’].
Type locality: Velikaya Guba uran-vanadium deposit, Zaonezhie Peninsula, Lake Onega, Karelia Republic, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.
Type material: Mining Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1239/1; Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Moscow, Russia, 82811 (
Anthony et al., 2001—2005).
Etymology: for chromium in the composition and similarity to dravite.