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Columbite-(Fe)

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Columbite-(Fe)

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Description
Locality: 
Golconda Pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.3 × 4 × 1.8 cm
Weight: 
63.00gr
Description

Thick lustrous black columbite-(Fe) crystal, formed by crystal faces and or contact with the matrix. Ex Dr. Ernst Burke* collection, with his handwritten label.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

 

*Ernst Burke professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands). Former Head of the IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification. Ernstburkeite is named after him.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Columbite-(Fe)

Formula: 
FeNb2O6
Strunz: 
4.DB.35
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Green's Well pegmatite (Green's Tank), Pilgangoora, Wallareenya Station, Port Hedland Shire, Western Australia, Australia...

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