Wodginite R130047
Name: Wodginite
RRUFF ID: R130047
Ideal Chemistry: Mn2+Sn4+Ta2O8
Locality: Tanco mine (Bernic Lake mine), Bernic Lake, Lac-du-Bonnet area, Manitoba, Canada
Source: Royal Ontario Museum [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Black blocky crystals in white microcline
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Groups: [ Wodginite (3) ] [ Columbite (32) ]
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: R130047.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 9.511(5)Å    b: 11.475(6)Å    c: 5.119(2)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 91.04(3)°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 558.6(2)Å3    Crystal System: monoclinic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Wodginite

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

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]

Fleischer M (1963) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 48, 1413-1421   [view file]

Nickel E H, Rowland J F, McAdam R C (1963) Wodginite-A new tin-manganese tantalate from Wodgina, Australia and Bernic Lake, Manitoba, The Canadian Mineralogist, 7, 390-402   [view file]

Turnock A C (1966) Synthetic wodginite, tapiolite and tantalite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 461-470   [view file]

International Mineralogical Association (1967) Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 131-136   [view file]

Grice J D, Černý P, Ferguson R B (1972) The Tanco pegmatite at Bernic Lake, Manitoba. II. Wodginite, tantalite, pseudo-ixiolite and related minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 609-642   [view file]

Ferguson R B, Hawthorne F C, Grice J D (1976) The crystal structures of tantalite, ixiolite and wodginite from Bernic Lake, Manitoba II. Wodginite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 14, 550-560   [view file]

Grice J D, Ferguson R B, Hawthorne F C (1976) The crystal structures of tantalite, ixiolite and wodginite from Bernic Lake, Manitoba I. Tantalite and ixiolite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 14, 540-549   [view file]

Ercit T S, Hawthorne F C, Černý P (1992) The wodginite group. I. Structural crystallography, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 597-611   [view file]

Masau M, Černý P, Chapman R (2000) Exsolution of zirconian-hafnian wodginite from Manganoan-tantalian cassiterite, Annie Clain #3 granitic pegmatite, southeastern Manitoba, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 685-694   [view file]

Chukanov N, Pasero M, Aksenov S M, Britvin S N, Zubkova N V, Yike L, Witzke T (2023) Columbite supergroup of minerals: nomenclature and classification, Mineralogical Magazine, 87, 18-33