Columbite-(Fe) Image

[Content and History] [Recent Issues] [Back Issues] [Subscriptions] [Contacts]
See Also: [Diamond Crystals] [Excalibur Minerals] [Hudson Institute] [Minerals on CDROM]
Mineral News was founded some twenty years ago and has developed a following of
avid mineral collectors seeking timely information about new finds and other items
of interest to the collector community. Articles are solicited from collector and scientific authors.

Columbite-(Fe)

Mineral:

Columbite-(Fe): Fe++Nb2O6

Comments:

Dark, coaly black, weathered granular ferrocolumbite. This specimen was originally identified as samarskite-(Y) and corrected by Fred Davis who studied the locality.

Location:

Spinelli Samarskite Prospect, Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA.

Scale:

Picture size 4 mm.

Copyright:

Counter:

This Image has been shown 8536 times

Image Links: