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Name: Tantalite-(Mg)
Ttl-Mg
Specimens in Collection:

#274: Columbite-(Mn) Tantalite-(Mg)
Dunton Mine, Maine, USA
IMA Chemistry: MgTa2O6
Chemistry Elements: The mineral Tantalite-(Mg) contains elements:
Magnesium (Mg)
Tantalum (Ta)
Oxygen (O)
Country of Type Locality: Russia
Year First Published: 2002
IMA Status: Approved,Renamed
Status Notes: Pekov I V, Yakubovich O V, Shcherbachev D K, Kononkova N N (2003) Magnesiotantalite (Mg,Fe)(Ta,Nb)_2_O_6_, the new columbite-tantalite group mineral from desilicated granite pegmatites of Lipovka (the Central Urals) and its genesis, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva 132(2), 49-60 Name changed from magnesiotantalite: 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: 269 Million Years Ago
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