Name: | Tantalite-(Fe) Ttl-Fe |
IMA Chemistry: | Fe2+Ta2O6 |
Chemistry Elements: | The mineral Tantalite-(Fe) contains elements: Iron (Fe) Tantalum (Ta) Oxygen (O) |
Country of Type Locality: | USA |
Year First Published: | 1836 |
IMA Status: | Approved,Renamed |
Status Notes: | Thomson T (1836) On the minerals containing columbium, Records of General Science 4, 407-419 Name changed from ferrotantalite: 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: | 3044 Million Years Ago |
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