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Mineral contains: Tantalite-(Fe)
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
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
Ercit T S, Wise M A, Černý P (1995) Compositional and structural systematics of the columbite group. American Mineralogist 80, 613-619
Fuchsloch W C, Nex P A M, Kinnaird J A (2019) The geochemical evolution of Nb-Ta-Sn oxides from pegmatites of the Cape Cross-Uis pegmatite belt, Namibia. Mineralogical Magazine 83, 161-179
Quensel P, Berggren T (1938) Minerals of the Varuträsk pegmatite. XI. The niobate-tantalate group. Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 60, 216-221
Thomson T (1836) On the minerals containing columbium. Records of General Science 4, 407-419
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