Read my last few posts and you can ask some more questions. Overall, I don't see anything that would lead me to believe that there is mass quantities of niobium present in that abandoned mine. However, what I do see (or think I see without a hand lens to look at cleavage planes) are several minerals that form in the same environments as niobium. Obviously, different minerals form under different environmental factors such as pressure, time, temperature, etc. The minerals in that mine look to have formed in the same type of environment you'd fine niobium.
My thought is, if the Gulf Geologist was saying there was Niobium in the core logs, and this abandoned mine shaft shows mineral deposits of the same environmental influence, it's going to be pretty likely that they'll find niobium. The question will remain just how much.
Let me know if you have any specific questions.
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