Talk:Columbite

Partial reverts
I have partly reverted the redirecting of the columbite and tantalite group minerals. Columbite-Fe (ferrocolumbite) & Columbite-Mg) are both International Mineralogical Association recognized mienrals as are the tantalite group minerals. --Kevmin (talk) 11:04, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Usage
some words on it's Usage and properties in usages perhaps? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.215.43.102 (talk • contribs) 18:21, 29 August 2009
 * As stated in the first paragraph, it is used as an ore of niobium and tantalum. What other uses were you thinking about? For uses of those two elements - see their respective articles. Vsmith (talk) 20:12, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

new section?: Columbite In Fiction
I won't inflict this on the actual page, but leave it up to someone else to include it if it seems not-inappropriate: 'In the James Bond novel Moonraker, Columbite is the name of a high-tech steel alloy used to make the casing of the eponymous missile.' Cheesusfreak (talk) 00:56, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I don’t think it is the name of an alloy in the book, just a component of the alloy; isn’t it a mineral, just as in reality, in which Drax (the villain) has cornered the market, securing his wealth, and the ability to manufacture an alloy for use in his rocket project. It would be interesting to know if the properties of columbite actully are those it is given by Fleming in the book - is it used in jet and rocket engines? Jock123 (talk) 17:57, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Correcting anachronistic reports of the discovery of Columbite and Niobium
As explained below, I intend to change the following two sentences (with respective references) from:


 * The occurrence of columbite in the United States was made known from a specimen sent by Governor John Winthrop of Connecticut to Hans Sloane, President of the Royal Society of Great Britain.


 * In 1801 Charles Hatchett discovered the element niobium in columbite, which he named columbium after Columbia, a historical and poetic name for the USA.



to:


 * The occurrence of columbite in the United States was made known from a specimen presumably stemming from John Winthrop (1606-1676), first colonial Governor of Connecticut and avid mineral collector. Amidst 600 other samples, it was donated by his namesake and grandson, John Winthrop (1681-1747) to Hans Sloane, President of the Royal Society of Great Britain, upon becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1737.


 * In 1801 Charles Hatchett discovered the element niobium in this specimen, which he named columbium after Columbia, a historical and poetic name for the USA.



Reason:

The donation of the mineral specimen to John Sloane clearly could not be made by Gov. John Winthrop the Younger himself, as Sloane (1660-1753) was just 16 by the time of the Governor's death, and only 50+ years later became president of the Royal Society. This anachronism apparently evolved in 1824 and has haunted through the literature via NIE 1905 to this century (including this WP article), even if already corrected in 1844 (cf. citation above).



Any comments welcome. --HReuter (talk) 02:24, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Correct name
The correct name is columbite-(Fe), to distinguish from columbite-(Mn) and columbite-(Mg). Eudialytos (talk) 17:39, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

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Environment impact and formation section
Initially added environmental impact and formation section but edited according to comment. Eblokland (talk) 15:23, 6 April 2024 (UTC)