Name: | Columbite-(Mn) Clb-Mn |
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IMA Chemistry: | Mn2+Nb2O6 |
Chemistry Elements: | The mineral Columbite-(Mn) contains elements: Manganese (Mn) Niobium (Nb) Oxygen (O) |
Country of Type Locality: | USA |
Year First Published: | 1892 |
IMA Status: | Approved,Renamed |
Status Notes: | Originally named manganocolumbite for the Mn-dominant columbite: 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 Name changed from manganocolumbite: 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 |
Structural Group Name: | Columbite |
Fleischer's Group Name: | columbite-euxenite-columbite subgroup |
Crystal Systems: | orthorhombic |
Oldest Known Age: | 3293 Million Years Ago |
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