Name: | Tapiolite-(Mn) Tap-Mn |
IMA Chemistry: | Mn2+Ta2O6 |
Chemistry Elements: | The mineral Tapiolite-(Mn) contains elements: Manganese (Mn) Tantalum (Ta) Oxygen (O) |
Country of Type Locality: | Finland |
Year First Published: | 1983 |
IMA Status: | Approved,Renamed |
Status Notes: | Originally named manganotapiolite when Fe and Mn end-members were distinguished in tapiolite: Lahti S I, Johanson B, Virkkunen M (1983) Contributions to the chemistry of tapiolite - manganotapiolite, a new mineral, Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland 55, 101-109 Name changed from manganotapiolite: 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: | Tapiolite |
Fleischer's Group Name: | tapiolite |
Crystal Systems: | tetragonal |
Oldest Known Age: | 1800 Million Years Ago |
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