Tantal
A material that is NOT an approved mineral species
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About Tantal
Synonym of:
German name.
Unique Identifiers
Mindat ID:
29461
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:1:29461:4
GUID
(UUID V4):
(UUID V4):
1c38e980-ac35-4210-9454-5bbe67ea7e9e
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Data courtesy of the American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database. Click on an AMCSD ID to view structure
ID | Species | Reference | Link | Year | Locality | Pressure (GPa) | Temp (K) |
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0011409 | Tantalcarbide | Wyckoff R W G (1963) Second edition. Interscience Publishers, New York, New York rocksalt structure Crystal Structures 1 85-237 | 1963 | 0 | 293 | ||
0017535 | Tantalcarbide | Schwarz M, Summa O (1933) Die Kristallstruktur von Tantalkarbid _cod_database_code 1010654 Metallwirtschaft, Metallwissenschaft, Metalltechnik 12 298-298 | 1933 | 0 | 293 | ||
0018166 | Tantalcarbide | Becker K, Ebert F (1925) Die Kristallstrukturen einiger binaerer Carbide und Nitride. _cod_database_code 1011324 Zeitschrift fur Physik 31 268-272 | 1925 | 0 | 293 |
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Other Information
Health Risks:
No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care.
Internet Links for Tantal
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Localities for Tantal
Locality List
- This locality has map coordinates listed.
- This locality has estimated coordinates.
ⓘ - Click for references and further information on this occurrence.
? - Indicates mineral may be doubtful at this locality.
- Good crystals or important locality for species.
- World class for species or very significant.
(TL) - Type Locality for a valid mineral species.
(FRL) - First Recorded Locality for everything else (eg varieties).
Struck out - Mineral was erroneously reported from this locality.
Faded * - Never found at this locality but inferred to have existed at some point in the past (e.g. from pseudomorphs).
All localities listed without proper references should be considered as questionable.
All localities listed without proper references should be considered as questionable.
Australia | |
| [Tantalum] Taylor et al. (1995) |
China | |
| [Tantalum] Xiangzhen et al. (2009) |
Czech Republic | |
| Pauliš et al. (2019) |
Greenland | |
| [Tantalum] Pavel M. Kartashov analytical data (2011) |
Pacific Ocean | |
| [Tantalum] Astakhova et al. (2014) |
Russia | |
| [Tantalum] chemistry and genesis et al. (in Russian) +1 other reference |
| [Tantalum] [AmMin 84:992] +1 other reference |
| [Tantalum] [AmMin 84:993] |
| Alekseev et al. (2020) |
Alekseev et al. (2023) | |
| [Tantalcarbide] Novgorodova et al. (1997) +1 other reference |
| [Tantalum] 6th orogenic lherzolite conference 2014 ... +2 other references |
Thailand | |
| [Tantalum] amdis.bgl.esdm.go.id (2016) |
Ukraine | |
| [Tantalum] Shatalov (2017) |
The Moon | |
| [Tantalum] Mokhov A.V. et al. (2009) |
Avrorinskii Placer, Aktai River, Baranchinsky Massif, Nizhnii Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia