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<journal-id journal-id-type="archive">gsminmag</journal-id>
<journal-title>Mineralogical Magazine</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="full">Mineralogical Magazine</abbrev-journal-title>
<issn pub-type="ppub">0026-461X</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name>Mineralogical Society</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1180/minmag.1981.044.335.06</article-id>
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<article-title>Gahnite and Columbite in an Alkali-Feldspar Granite from New Zealand</article-title>
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<surname>Tulloch</surname>
<given-names>A. J.</given-names>
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<aff>Geology Department, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand<xref ref-type="author-notes" rid="FN1">*</xref></aff></contrib></contrib-group>
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<fn fn-type="present-address" id="FN1"><label>*</label><p>Present address: NZ Geological Survey, PO Box 30368, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.</p></fn></author-notes>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>9</month>
<year>1981</year>
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<volume>44</volume>
<issue>335</issue>
<fpage>275</fpage>
<lpage>278</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>11</day>
<month>11</month>
<year>1980</year>
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<date date-type="rev-recd">
<day>25</day>
<month>1</month>
<year>1981</year>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1981, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1981</copyright-year>
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<title>Abstract</title>
<p>Gahnite and columbite with compositions (Zn<sub>5.96</sub>Fe<sub>1.55</sub>Mg<sub>0.21</sub>Mn<sub>0.13</sub>)<sub>&#x03A3;7.85</sub>Al<sub>16.09</sub>O<sub>32</sub> and (Nb<sub>7.36</sub>Ta<sub>0.60</sub>Mn<sub>2.95</sub>Fe<sub>0.98</sub>Ti<sub>0.09</sub>)<sub>&#x03A3;11.98</sub>O<sub>24</sub> occur as accessory phases in a highly evolved garnetiferous muscovite alkalifeldspar granite. Both phases have developed as a result of a concentration of Zn, Nb, and Ta during the fmal stages of the fractional crystallization which led to the formation of the pluton, and the lack of a major mafic mineral such as biotite, in which these elements are normally camouflaged in granitoid rocks.</p></abstract>
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