Journal of Geological Society of India (Online archive from Vol 1 to Vol 78)

Vikram J. S. Lamba ¹

Affiliations
1 Office of the Collector, Indore, (M.P.)-Pin: 452001, IN

Abstract

Cassiterite occurs as discrete crystals, disseminations and occasionally as small veinlets mainly in the quartz core, in the tin-bearing rare-metal pegmatites of Bastar disttrict, M.P. XRD study on it reveals that columbite-tantalite occurs possibly in solid solution with it resulting in decrease of its axial lengths of a_o and b_o by 1.0%, compared to standard (synthetic) cassiterite.

Keywords

XRD Study, Cassiterite, Bastar District, Madhya Pradesh.

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