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Name: Tantalite-(Mn) RRUFF ID: R060415 Ideal Chemistry: Mn2+Ta2O6 Locality: Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan Source: Herb Obodda 108 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Dark brown fragment Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction. |
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Mineral Group: [ Columbite (32) ] | ||
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RRUFF ID: | R060415.1 | |||||||
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a: 14.386(2)Å b: 5.7620(6)Å c: 5.080(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 421.1(0)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Tantalite-(Mn) | |
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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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Thomson T (1836) On the minerals containing columbium, Records of General Science, 4, 407-419 [view file] |
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Nordenskiöld A E (1877) Mineralogiska meddelanden. 3. Tantalsyrade mineralier från Utö, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 3, 282-286 [view file] |
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Quensel P, Berggren T (1938) Minerals of the Varuträsk pegmatite. XI. The niobate-tantalate group, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 60, 216-221 |
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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] |
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Klein S, Weitzel H (1976) Magnetische struktur von Mn(Nb0.5Ta0.5)2O6, manganotantalit, Acta Crystallographica, A32, 587-591 |
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Ercit T S, Wise M A, Černý P (1995) Compositional and structural systematics of the columbite group, American Mineralogist, 80, 613-619 [view file] |
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dos Santos C A, Zawislak L I, Kinast E J, Antonietti V, da Cunha J B M (2001) Crystal chemistry and structure of the orthorhombic (Fe,Mn)(Ta,Nb)2O6 family of compounds, Brazilian Journal of Physics, 31, 616-631 |
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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] |
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McNeil A G, Linnen R L, Flemming R L (2015) Hydrothermal synthesis of columbite-(Mn), tantalite-(Mn), hafnon, and zircon at 800-850°C and 200MPa, The Canadian Mineralogist, 53, 1073-1081 |
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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 |
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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 |
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