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Name: Stibiotantalite RRUFF ID: R050599 Ideal Chemistry: Sb3+TaO4 Locality: Shengus, Pakistan Source: Wayne Thompson Owner: RRUFF Description: Yellow fragment Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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Quick search: [ All Stibiotantalite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R050599.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 4.9251(1)Å b: 5.54462(8)Å c: 11.8232(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 322.866(7)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Stibiotantalite | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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Skapski A c,Rogers D (1965) The stucture of SbNbO4, α-SbNbO4, and SbTaO4, Chemical Communications, 1965, 611-613 |
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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] |
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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] |
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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 |
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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] |
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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 |
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