ilmenite

How To Use ilmenite In A Sentence

• The sand is siliceous and, as with other sand masses on the New South Wales north coast, contains significant quantities of the heavy minerals rutile, zircon and ilmenite. Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves, Australia
• Most heavy-mineral sands also have a high content of titanium-bearing minerals, such as ilmenite and rutile. Zirconium
• Minerals that remove Ti include augite and ilmenite/titanomagnetite.
• The rock consists of plagioclase, K-feldspar, quartz, clinopyroxene and biotite, with abundant apatite, and ilmenite.
• In general the mineral is recovered on a commercial scale only from placers, where it has been concentrated along with other dense, insoluble minerals such as zircon, garnet, ilmenite, and sometimes gold. The Economic Aspect of Geology
• Titanium resides principally in heavy minerals: ilmenite, rutile, anatase and sphene, whereas Zr is located predominantly in zircon.
• Totals of 1,673 p-type garnets and 287 e-type garnet grains were recovered, with one sample returning 50 p-type garnets, ten e-type garnets, four chrome diopside and one ilmenite grain. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
• Both phases contain olivine, picroilmenite, pyrope garnet and chrome diopside macrocrysts. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
• QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM), a joint venture between Rio Tinto and the Madagascar government, is mining ilmenite, which is used in products such as food colouring, sunscreen and paint. Engineering News | Home
• Rock-forming minerals from the Lake George intrusives include hastingsite; hedenbergite; ilmenite; muscovite; phlogopite; riebeckite; and rutile.