Titanowodginite

 Titanowodginite is a mineral with the chemical formula MnTiTa₂O₈. Titanowodginite has a Mohs hardness of 5.5 and a vitreous luster. It is an iridescent dark brown to black crystal that commonly forms in a matrix of smoky quartz or white beryl in a complex zoned pegmatite.^[1][2][3]

Titanowodginite
Black sharp crystals of titanowodginite associated to white beryl from the type locality for the first mineral: Tanco Mine, Bernic Lake, Lac-du-Bonnet, Manitoba, Canada.
General
Category	Oxide minerals
Formula (repeating unit)	MnTiTa2O8
Strunz classification	4.DB.40
Crystal system	Monoclinic
Crystal class	Prismatic (2/m) (same H-M symbol)
Space group	C2/c
Identification
Color	dark brown to black
Luster	vitreous
Streak	dark brown
Diaphaneity	translucent
References	[1][2]

It was first described in 1992 for an occurrence in the Tanco Mine located in southern Manitoba, Canada. It was named because it is a titanium bearing member of the wodginite group.

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