The country's reserves of tantalite are almost entirely in the east, in a place called Kivu.
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Association minerals include : albite, lepidolite, topaz, beryl, tourmaline, spessartine, tantalite and fluorite.
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Most of the world's declared supply of tantalum is mined as tantalite ore, and comes from Australia.
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In 1845 Rose published the discovery of a new element pelopium, which he had found in the mineral tantalite.
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Ivory Coast also had small deposits of colombo-tantalite, ilmenite, cobalt, copper, nickel, and bauxite.
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HAMC also holds a license to produce tantalite from the Morrua mine, which had been shut down since the 1980s.
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Those minerals have the same chemical composition, but different crystal symmetry orthorhombic for tantalite or columbite and tetragonal for tapiolite.
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The rebels, together with the Rwandan army, control the mining of tantalite, and the proceeds help fund their war effort.
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Of these, Moroto has gold, silver, copper, iron, titanium, manganese, niobium, tantalite, and chrome.
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In 1923 Lady Moulden became interested in tantalite, a rare mineral found in the Northern Territory and at Wodgina in Western Australia.