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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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