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Staringite discredited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Lee A. Groat ,
Andrew Putnis ,
Stephen A. Kissin ,
T. Scott Ercit ,
Frank C. Hawthorne  and
Richard V. Gaines
Lee A. Groat
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, U.K.
Andrew Putnis
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, U.K.
Stephen A. Kissin
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 5E1, Canada
T. Scott Ercit
Affiliation:
Canadian Museum of Nature, Mineral Sciences Section, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4, Canada
Frank C. Hawthorne
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada
Richard V. Gaines
Affiliation:
Rt. 1, Box 69, Earlysville, Virginia 22936, U.S.A.
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Abstract

Detailed examination of ‘staringite’ by X-ray precession photography and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy shows it to consist of a sub-microscopic intergrowth of cassiterite and tapiolite. ‘Staringite’ is discredited as a valid mineral species.

Keywords

staringiteTa/Nb oxide mineralspegmatitestransmission electron microscopy

Information

Type
Mineralogy
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 58 , Issue 391 , June 1994 , pp. 271 - 277
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1994

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Present address: Department of Geological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada

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