Niobium-tantalum minerals in the Skoddefjellet NYF granitic pegmatite, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway: Primary versus secondary assemblage

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Abhandlungen

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 235-248

  Pršek, Jaroslav ^a,c   Majka, Jaroslaw ^b   Uher, Pavel ^c   Chudík, Peter ^c  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Columbite; Fersmite; Ilmenite; Nb; Nb Ta oxide minerals; Nyf granitic pegmatite; Pyrochlore group minerals; Spitsbergen; Ta rich rutile; Ta rich titanite

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE ENVIRONMENT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MINERALIZATION; MINERALOGY; NIOBIUM; PEGMATITE; TANTALUM; ZONING;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 78649628675     PISSN: 00777757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7757/2010/0172     Document Type: Article

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