Tantalum

A team of Ghanaian researchers has discovered a new mineral, tantalum, at Bewadze-Mankoadze in the Kibi-Winneba Belt of southern Ghana. This mineral is found in significant quantities within an igneous rock known as pegmatite. According to a report by Asaaseradio.com, the discovery is detailed in a paper authored by Dr. Emmanuel Daanoba Sunkari, a lecturer at the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) in Tarkwa, Joshua Nkansah, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa (also of UMaT), and Salaam Jansbaka Adams of the University of Environment and Sustainable Development in Somanya. The paper is titled…