Tantalite-(Fe) R070548
Name: Tantalite-(Fe)
RRUFF ID: R070548
Ideal Chemistry: Fe2+Ta2O6
Locality: Grizzly Bear Gulch, Black Hills, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
Source: James Shigley [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Submetallic dark grey fragments with parallel cleavage planes
Status: The identification of this mineral has been made only by X-ray diffraction.
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R070548.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R070548.1
Sample Description: powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 14.3502(7)Å    b: 5.7519(2)Å    c: 5.0997(3)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 420.93(2)    Crystal System: orthorhombic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Tantalite-(Fe)

Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file]

Thomson T (1836) On the minerals containing columbium, Records of General Science, 4, 407-419   [view file]

Quensel P, Berggren T (1938) Minerals of the Varuträsk pegmatite, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 60, 216-221

Byström A, Hök B, Mason B (1942) The crystal structure of zinc metantimonate and similar compounds, Arkiv för Kemi, Mineralogi och Geologi, 15B4, 1-8

Ercit T S, Wise M A, Cerný P (1995) Compositional and structural systematics of the columbite group, American Mineralogist, 80, 613-619   [view file]

Burke E A J (2008) Tidying up mineral names: an IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks, The Mineralogical Record, 39, 131-135   [view file]