Columbite-(Fe) w/ Microlite, Spodumene, & Lepidolite
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Columbite-(Fe) w/ Microlite, Spodumene, & Lepidolite
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- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 4 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm - Miniature
- Formula
- Fe2+Nb2O6 (RRUFF)
- Locality
- Harding mine, Taos Co., New Mexico, United States
Thin red-brown crystals of Columbite-Fe to 9mm long in a divergent spray embedded in white Spodumene matrix with purple Lepidolite mixed with yellow crudely octahedral crystals of Microlite.
Comes with a label from J.A. Dague Minerals that mentions it was a gift from A. Montgomery to Don Schmerling, both well known collectors and mineralogists.
Columbite-(Fe)
- Formula
- Fe2+Nb2O6
- Crystal System
- Orthorhombic
- Crystal Habit
- Massive - Granular, Striated
- Cleavage
- Distinct, None, None
- Luster
- Sub Metallic
- Color
- black, brownish black
- Streak
- blackish brown
- Class
- Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
- Fracture
- Sub Conchoidal
- Hardness
- 6
Data courtesy of Webmineral.
- Collection
- Hess Collection
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