[Rockhounds] Lepidolite & the Micas

Rock Currier rockcurrier at cs.com
Mon Mar 10 00:15:00 PDT 2008


This may sound simplistic, but Columbite is considered an archaic term.

Ed, ferrocolumbite and manganocolumbite have been used in mineralogical 
literature, but the current correct usage is Columbite-(Fe), Columbite-(Mg) 
or Columbite-(Fe). I believe Niobium is a metalic element and not a mineral 
at all.

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