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Tapiolite & Wodginite

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Tapiolite & Wodginite

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Description
Locality: 
Greenbushes Mine, Bridgetown-Greenbushes Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.4 × 1 cm
Description

Darkbrown elongated wodginite crystals associated with black tapiolite masses and another mineral forming orange-brown crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wodginite

Formula: 
Mn(Sn,Ta)Ta2O8
Strunz: 
4.DB.40
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Wodgina Mine (Wodgina pegmatite; Main tantalite dyke), Port Hedland Shire, Western Australia, Australia