Geochemistry of oxide minerals of Nb, Ta, Sn, and Sb in the Varuträsk granitic pegmatite, Sweden: The case of an "anomalous" columbite-tantalite trend

American Mineralogist

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 505-518

  Černý, Petr ^a   Chapman, Ron ^a   Ferreira, Karen ^a   Smeds, Sten Anders ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELDSPAR; FLUORIDE MINERALS; GRANITE; MICA; OXIDE MINERALS; POSITIVE IONS; RARE EARTHS;

CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUMS; COLUMBITE TANTALITES; COMPOSITIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPOSITIONAL FEATURES; DISORDERED STRUCTURES; GRANITIC PEGMATITE; HETEROVALENT SUBSTITUTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

TANTALUM COMPOUNDS;

COLUMBITE; GEOCHEMISTRY; MINERALOGY; OXIDE; PEGMATITE; PROTEROZOIC; TANTALITE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 1942531298     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-2004-0405     Document Type: Article

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