Catalog No	Product Description	Purity %	Particle Size	Cost Per Pound
				1-2	3-10	11-25	26-100
FE-901	Ilimenite, Fe Ti O3	-	-30+325 mesh	inquire

BACKGROUND:
Ilmenite is a common accessory mineral found in metamorphic and igneous rocks. It is found in large concentrations in ultramafic to mafic layered intrusions where it forms as part of a cumulate layer within the silicate stratigraphy of the intrusion. Ilmenite generally occurs within the pyroxenitic portion of such intrusions (the 'pyroxene-in' level).

Magnesian ilmenite is indicative of kimberlitic paragenesis and forms part of the MARID association of minerals (mica-amphibole-rutile-ilmenite-diopside) assemblage of glimmerite xenoliths. Managaniferous ilmenite is found in granitic rocks and also in carbonatite intrusions where it may also contain anomalous niobium.

Many mafic igneous rocks contain grains of intergrown magnetite and ilmenite, formed by the oxidation of ulvospinel. Ilmenite also occurs as discrete grains, typically with some hematite in solid solution, and complete solid solution exists between the two minerals at temperatures above about 950°C.

Titanium was identified for the first time by William Gregor in 1791 in Ilmenite from the Manaccan valley.

Ilmenite is named after the locality of its discovery in the Il'menski Mountains, near Miass, Russia

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ILMENITE LINKS OF INTEREST:

1. Mineral Handbook (PDF)
2. Mineral Galleries Description of Ilmenite
3. U.S. Geological Survey of Titanium Mineral Compounds 2006-03-07
4. November 2, 2005)Malagasy Ilmenite Mine Brings Aids threat
5. Ilmenite Needed to Set Up a Moonbase. NASA

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