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Cassiterite With Wodginite & Tantalite

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Locality: 
Tanco Mine, Bernic Lake, Lac-du-Bonnet, Manitoba, Canada
Class: 
Mixed Specimens
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.4 × 5.4 × 5 cm
Weight: 
177.00gr
Description

Unusual ore specimen from the famous Tanco pegmatite in Manitoba, Canada, consisting of very rich cassiterite with wodginite and tantalite as well as rare and exotic tantalum minerals such as simpsonite. Very rare material from the collection of a former Tanco miner. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cassiterite

Formula: 
SnO2
Strunz: 
4.DB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0

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

Tantalite

Group Parent: 
Tantalite-(Fe)-Tantalite-(Mn) Series

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