Name: | Tapiolite-(Fe) Tap-Fe |
IMA Chemistry: | Fe2+Ta2O6 |
Chemistry Elements: | The mineral Tapiolite-(Fe) contains elements: Iron (Fe) Tantalum (Ta) Oxygen (O) |
Country of Type Locality: | Finland |
Year First Published: | 1863 |
IMA Status: | Approved,Renamed |
Status Notes: | Nordenskiöld A E (1863) Om tantalitartade mineralier från nejden af Torro, Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 20, 443-453 Name changed from tapiolite to ferrotapiolite when the Mn-dominant species was discovered: 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 ferrotapiolite: 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: | 2675 Million Years Ago |
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