This arrangement of mineral species is based on Dana's New Mineralogy by Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig, with sections by Vandall T. King, Illustrations by Eric Dowty, (ISBN: 047119310-0) Copyright © 1997, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.". This material is used by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Follow this link for a short discussion on the Dana Classification Number.
08.03.02 Tantalite - Columbite Series 08.03.02.01 Tantalite-(Fe) Fe++Ta2O6 Pcan 2/m 2/m 2/m 08.03.02.02 Columbite-(Fe) Fe++Nb2O6 Pcan 2/m 2/m 2/m 08.03.02.03 Tantalite-(Mn) MnTa2O6 Pcan 2/m 2/m 2/m 08.03.02.04 Columbite-(Mn) (Mn,Fe++)(Nb,Ta)2O6 Pcan 2/m 2/m 2/m 08.03.02.05 Columbite-(Mg) (Mg,Fe++,Mn)(Nb,Ta)2O6 Pcan 2/m 2/m 2/m 08.03.02.06 Tantalite-(Mg)! (Mg,Fe)(Ta,Nb)2O6 P bcn 2/m 2/m 2/m