Columbite-(Mn) R040083

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Name: Columbite-(Mn)
RRUFF ID: R040083
Ideal Chemistry: Mn2+Nb2O6
Locality: Mina Miramica, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 10964 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Fragment consisting of multiple phases as shown by both X-ray diffraction and microprobe.
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
Mineral Group: [ Columbite (32) ]
Quick search: [ All Columbite-(Mn) samples (2) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R040083.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: (Mn2+0.78Fe2+0.21Ti0.01)(Nb0.74Ta0.25Ti0.01)2O6 ; = Light bands. (Mn2+0.73Fe2+0.26Ti0.01)(Nb0.86Ta0.13Ti0.01)2O6 = Dark bands
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R040083
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R040083.1
Sample Description: Powder
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R040083.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 14.317(2)Å    b: 5.7444(4)Å    c: 5.1089(4)Å
alpha: 90.°    beta: 90.°    gamma: 90.°   Volume: 420.20(4)Å3    Crystal System: orthorhombic
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REFERENCES for Columbite-(Mn)

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]

Jameson R (1805) Columbite, System of Mineralogy, II, Bell and Bradfute Edinburgh, U.K. 582-583   [view file]

Dana E S (1892) Columbite group, in The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana 1837-1868, Descriptive Mineralogy 6th Edition John Wiley & Sons New York 731-738   [view file]

Brøgger W C (1906) Die Mineralien der Südnorwegischen Granitpegmatitgänge: Blomstrandin (und Priorit), Skrifter udgivne af Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania, 1906, issue 6 1-162   [view file]

Wherry E T (1914) Mineral nomenclature, Science, 39, 575-577   [view file]

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International Mineralogical Association (1962) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 33, 260-263   [view file]

Ercit T S, Wise M A, Černý P (1995) Compositional and structural systematics of the columbite group, American Mineralogist, 80, 613-619   [view file]

Tarantino S C, Zema M (2005) Mixing and ordering behavior in manganocolumbite-ferrocolumbite solid solution: a single-crystal X-ray diffraction study, American Mineralogist, 90, 1291-1299   [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

Grew E S, Bosi F, Ros L, Kristiansson P, Gunter M E (2018) Fluor-elbaite, lepidolite and Ta-Nb oxides from a pegmatite of the 3000 Ma Sinceni Pluton, Swaziland: evidence for lithium-cesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatites in the Mesoarchean, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 205-218

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

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

Hao Y, Feng Y, Liang T, Brzozowski M, Ju M, Zhou R, Wang Y (2023) Quantitative evaluation of metamictisation of columbite-(Mn) from rare-element pegmatites using Raman spectroscopy, Mineralogical Magazine, 87, 337-347