Columbite-(Fe) R070161



Name: Columbite-(Fe)
RRUFF ID: R070161
Ideal Chemistry: Fe2+Nb2O6
Locality: Tveit mine, Iveland, Setesdal Valley, Aust-Agder, Norway
Source: James Shigley [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Black vitreous dense prismatic crystal
Status: The identification of this mineral has been made only by X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Columbite (32) ]
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R070161
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R070161.1
Sample Description: Powder
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R070161.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 5.7203(8)Å    b: 4.7474(9)Å    c: 5.0820(8)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 138.01(2)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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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Columbite-(Fe)

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]

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

Wherry E T (1915) Notes on wolframite, beraunite, and axinite, Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 47, 501-511   [view file]

Simpson E S (1917) On tapiolite in the Pilbara goldfield, Western Australia, Mineralogical Magazine, 18, 107-121   [view file]

Simpson E S (1928) Famous mineral localities: Wodgina, North West Australia, American Mineralogist, 13, 457-468   [view file]

Quensel P, Berggren T (1938) Minerals of the Varuträsk pegmatite. XI. The niobate-tantalate group, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 60, 216-221

Dunn P J, Gaines R V, Kristiansen R (1979) Mossite discredited, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 553-554   [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]

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

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]

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]

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