| Name: | Tantalcarbide Tcb |
| IMA Chemistry: | TaC |
| Chemistry Elements: | The mineral Tantalcarbide contains elements: Tantalum (Ta) Carbon (C) |
| Country of Type Locality: | Russia |
| Year First Published: | 1909 |
| IMA Status: | Approved,Grandfathered |
| Status Notes: | Reported the discovery of native tantalum: Walther P (1909) A new mineral from a gold-washing locality in the Ural Mountains, Nature 81, 335-335 Showed that the previously reported native tantalum was actually tantalum carbide: Frondel C (1962) Non-existence of native tantalum, American Mineralogist 47, 786-787 Removed uncertainty about the status of the mineral: Novgorodova M I, Generalov M E, Trubkin N V (1997) The new TaC-NbC isomorphic row and niobocarbide – a new mineral from platinum placers of the Urals, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva 126(1), 76-95 |
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| Fleischer's Group Name: | tantalcarbide |
| Crystal Systems: | cubic |
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