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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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