Wodginite

Wodginite is a manganese, tin, tantalum oxide mineral with formula Mn²⁺(Sn,Ta)Ta₂O₈. It may include significant niobium.[1][2]

Wodginite was firsr described in 1963 for an occurrence in the Wodgina pegmatite, Wodgina, Pilbara Region, Western Australia.[3]

Typical occurrence is in zoned pegmatites in amphibolite. It is associated with tantalite, albite, quartz, muscovite, tapiolite, microlite and microcline.[1]

It occurs in pegmatites in a wide variety of locations. The most studied is the Tanco pegmatite in Manitoba, Canada; also in Red Lake, Ontario. It is reported from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut; the Herbb #2 pegmatite, Powhatan County, Virginia; the McAllister mine, Rockford, Coosa County, Alabama; the Peerless mine, Pennington County, South Dakota. Also from Paraíba and Minas Gerais, Brazil; Krasonice, Czech Republic; Orivesi, Finland; Kalba, eastern Kazakhstan; Ankole, Uganda; Miami district, Zimbabwe and Karibib and Kohero, Namibia.[1][3]

References

1. ^ a b c d http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/wodginite.pdf Handbook of Mineralogy
2. ^ a b http://webmineral.com/data/Wodginite.shtml Webmineral data
3. ^ a b c http://www.mindat.org/min-4302.html Mindat.org

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