Stibiotantalite R050232

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Name: Stibiotantalite
RRUFF ID: R050232
Ideal Chemistry: Sb3+TaO4
Locality: Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California, USA
Source: Marcus Origlieri
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Brown crystal fragment
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050232.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: lighter and darker phases: Sb1.00(Ta0.72Nb0.28)Σ=1O4
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R050232
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R050232.1
Sample Description: Powder
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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RRUFF ID: R050232.1
Sample Description: Powder
Instrument settings: PIKE GladiATR - Far-IR on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050232.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 4.9222(1)Å    b: 5.5463(1)Å    c: 11.8193(2)Å
alpha: 90.°    beta: 90.°    gamma: 90.°   Volume: 322.678(9)Å3    Crystal System: orthorhombic
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Calculated diffraction file.

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

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REFERENCES for Stibiotantalite

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]

Goyder G A (1893) On a new mineral (stibiotantalite), Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, 17, 127-128   [view file]

Dihlström K (1938) Über den bau des wahren antimontetroxyds und des damit isomorphen stibiotantalits, SbTaO4, Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, 239, 57-64   [view file]

Skapski A c,Rogers D (1965) The stucture of SbNbO4, α-SbNbO4, and SbTaO4, Chemical Communications, 1965, 611-613

Černý P, Harris D C (1973) Tapiolite, stibiotantalite, and antimonian microlite from the Odd West pegmatite, southeastern Manitoba, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 76-78   [view file]

Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 31, 931-970   [view file]

Zubkova N V, Pushcharovsky D Y, Giester G, Smolin A S, Tillmanns E, Brandstätter F, Hammer V, Peretyazhko I S, Sapozhnikov A N, Kashaev A A (2002) Bismutocolumbite, Bi(Nb0.79Ta0.21)O4, stibiocolumbite, Sb(Nb0.67Ta0.33)O4, and their structural relation to other ABO4 minerals with stibiotantalite (SbTaO4) structure, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 2002, 145-159

Novák M, Černý P, Cempírek J, Srein V, Filip J (2004) Ferrotapiolite as a pseudomorph of stibiotantalite from the Laštovičky lepidolite pegmatite, Czech Republic: an example of hydrothermal alteration at constant Ta/(Ta + Nb), The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 1117-1128   [view file]

Qu K, Ni P, Fan G, Li G, Wang Y (2023) Stibiotantalite from the Nanyangshan LCT Pegmatite, North Qinling Orogen, Central China: Occurrence and new data on its crystal chemistry, The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 61, 965-977