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Tapiolite-(Mn)

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Tapiolite-(Mn)

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Description
Locality: 
Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1 × 0.6 cm
Description

Dark brown crystal aggregates of the rare Mn mineral tapiolite-(Mn) from a locality in Western Australia, mineral previously known as tapiolite.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tapiolite-(Mn)

Formula: 
(Mn,Fe)(Ta,Nb)2O6
Strunz: 
4.DB.10
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Type Locality: 
Tiainen pegmatite, Eräjärvi area, Orivesi, Western and Inner Finland Region, Finland

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