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fergusonite
[ fur-guh-suh-nahyt ]
noun
- a rare-earth mineral, yttrium columbate and tantalate, found in pegmatites.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of fergusonite1
1820–30; named after R. Ferguson, 19th-century Scottish physician; -ite 1
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Cleveite, samarskite and fergusonite contain a little more than monazite.
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The rare earth metals are found in the minerals gadolinite, samarskite, fergusonite, euxenite and cerite.
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It is usually found associated with tantalum, the chief minerals containing these two elements being tantalite, columbite, fergusonite and yttrotantalite; it is also a constituent of pyrochlor, euxenite and samarskite.
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