Flashcards: Titanium minerals

Brookite is the orthorhombic variant of titanium dioxide, TiO2, which occurs in four natural polymorphic forms (minerals with the same composition but different structure).

Dualite is a very rare and complex mineral of the eudialyte group, its complexity being expressed in its formula: Na30(Ca,Na,Ce,Sr)12(Na,Mn,Fe,Ti)6Zr3Ti3MnSi51O144(OH,H2O,Cl)9.

Anatase is one of the three mineral forms of titanium dioxide, the other two being brookite and rutile.

Ilmenite is the titanium-iron oxide mineral with the idealized formula FeTiO3.

Wassonite is an extremely rare sulfide mineral with chemical formula TiS.

Augite is a common rock-forming single chain inosilicate mineral with formula (Ca,Na)(Mg,Fe,Al,Ti)(Si,Al)2O6.

Rutile is a mineral composed primarily of titanium dioxide, TiO2.

Perovskite (pronunciation: /pəˈrɒvskaɪt/) is a calcium titanium oxide mineral composed of calcium titanate, with the chemical formula CaTiO3.

Titanite, or sphene (from the Greek sphenos (σφηνώ), meaning wedge), is a calcium titanium nesosilicate mineral, CaTiSiO5.

Benitoite (pronunciation: /bɛn.ˈi.toʊ.aɪt/) is a rare blue barium titanium silicate mineral, found in hydrothermally altered serpentinite.

Euxenite or euxenite-(Y) (a correct mineralogical name) is a brownish black mineral with a metallic luster.

Aenigmatite, also known as Cossyrite after Cossyra, the ancient name of Pantelleria, is a sodium, iron, titanium inosilicate mineral.

Alluaivite is a rare mineral of the eudialyte group, with complex formula written as Na19(Ca,Mn)6(Ti,Nb)3Si26O74Cl·2H2O.

Astrophyllite is a very rare, brown to golden-yellow hydrous potassium iron titanium silicate mineral.

Lorenzenite is a rare sodium titanium silicate mineral with the formula Na2Ti2Si2O9 It is an orthorhombic mineral, variously found as colorless, grey, pinkish, or brown crystals.

Nabalamprophyllite has a general formula of Ba(Na,Ba){Na3Ti[Ti2O2Si4O14](OH,F)2}.

Nenadkevichite is a rare silicate mineral containing niobium with formula: (Na,Ca)(Nb,Ti)Si2O7·2H2O.

Tranquillityite is silicate mineral with formula (Fe2+)8Ti3Zr2 Si3O24.

Panguite is a type of titanium oxide mineral first discovered as an inclusion within the Allende meteorite, and first described in 2012.

Armalcolite /ˌɑːrˈmɑːlkəlaɪt/ is a titanium-rich mineral with the chemical formula (Mg,Fe2+)Ti2O5.

Aeschynite-(Y) (or Aeschinite-(Y), Aeschynite-(Yt), Blomstrandine, Priorite) is a rare earth mineral of yttrium, calcium, iron, thorium, titanium, niobium, oxygen, and hydrogen with formula: (Y,Ca,Fe,Th)(Ti,Nb)2(O,OH)6.

Betafite is a mineral group in the pyrochlore supergroup, with the chemical formula (Ca,U)2(Ti,Nb,Ta)2O6(OH).

Cafetite is a rare titanium oxide mineral with formula (Ca,Mg)(Fe,Al)2Ti4O12·4(H2O).

Cleusonite is a member of the crichtonite group of minerals with a chemical formula of (Pb,Sr)(U4+,U6+)(Fe2+,Zn)(Ti,Fe2+,Fe3+)18(O,OH)38.

Haggertyite is a rare barium, iron, magnesium, titanate mineral: Ba(Fe2+6Ti5Mg)O19 first described in 1996 from the Crater of Diamonds State Park near Murfreesboro in Pike County, Arkansas.

Loveringite is a rare metallic oxide mineral of the crichtonite group with the chemical formula (Ca,Ce)(Ti,Fe,Cr,Mg)21O38.

Pyrophanite is a manganese titanium oxide mineral with formula: MnTiO3.

Sabinaite (Na4Zr2TiO4(CO3)4) is a rare carbonate mineral.

Schreyerite (V2Ti3O9), is a vanadium, titanium oxide mineral found in the Lasamba Hill, Kwale district in Coast Province Kenya.

Tausonite is the rare naturally occurring mineral form of strontium titanate: chemical formula: SrTiO3.

Titanowodginite is a mineral with the chemical formula MnTiTa2O8.

Zirconolite is a mineral, calcium zirconium titanate; formula CaZrTi2O7.

Zirkelite is an oxide mineral with formula: (Ca,Th,Ce)Zr(Ti,Nb)2O7.

Zimbabweite is a mineral; formula (Na,K)2PbAs4(Nb,Ta,Ti)4O18.

Warwickite is an iron magnesium titanium borate mineral with formula: (MgFe)3Ti(O, BO3)2 or Mg(Ti,Fe3+, Al)(BO3)O.

Jinshajiangite is a rare silicate mineral named after the Jinshajiang river in China.

Labyrinthite is a very rare mineral of the eudialyte group.

Neptunite is a silicate mineral with the formula KNa2Li(Fe2+, Mn2+)2Ti2Si8O24.

Pabstite is a barium tin titanium silicate mineral that is found in contact metamorphosed limestone.

Zircophyllite is a complex mineral, formula (K,Na)3(Mn,Fe)7(Zr,Ti,Nb)2Si8O24(OH,F)7.

Zorite is a silicate mineral with the chemical formula of Na2Ti(Si,Al)3O9·nH2O.

Faizievite is a very rare mineral with the formula K2Na(Ca6Na)Ti4Li6Si24O66F2.

Anzaite-(Ce) is a rare earth element (REE) oxide mineral with the formula Ce4Fe2+Ti6O18(OH)2.

Tistarite is an exceedingly rare mineral with the formula Ti2O3, thus being the natural analogue of titanium(III) oxide.

Titanoholtite is an extremely rare mineral with the formula (Ti0.75[]0.25)Al6BSi3O18.