Min. [ad. Sw. tapiolit (A. E. Nordenskiöld, 1863); named after Tapio, a Finnish deity: see -LITE.] ‘Columbo-tantalate of iron, resembling tantalite, bat containing no manganese’ (Chester).
1868. Dana, Min. (ed. 5), 518. Tapiolite … occurs near the Kulmala farm, in the village of Sukula, in the parish of Tammela, Finland.
