Ilmenite I found while boulder hunting in Kuusamo (=`ω´=)

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Ilmenite I found while boulder hunting in Kuusamo (=`ω´=)
Our incredible collaboration artwork with Ann! I love it soooo much! The sketch and composition was done by Ann, I did the coloring! Ann has posted our work before, but I wanted to post it on my blog too, it's very good! It's our gemsonas, Ilmenite and Heliodor.
2/2 gem donations. This time Ilmenite for Black Diamond’s court.
On earth, Ilmenite is a main source of titanium dioxide, which is used in a lot of stuff. But I felt that making Ilmenites builders and construction gems could work.
I don’t have much ideas in the way of abilities for Ilmenite, ferrokinesis is a possibility, since titanium dioxide is magnetic.
@coleheinous thank you so much for the submission! Black Diamond could use a magnetic worker to help move things around!
The Moon. Art by Agnes Vachon-Tremblay, from The Telluric Tarot.
Ilmenite and Night Blooming Cereus: Crystals and plant pairing equivalent to the Moon.
Lunar Meteorites Every year since the late 1970s, a team of US based scientists is organized by the Smithsonian and NASA to take a trip down to Antarctica over that continent’s summer. They move along the ice sheets looking for rocks, and go to the places where the glaciers ablate also looking for rocks. Why?
South Africa is one step closer to processed titanium alloys
William Gregor, an amateur mineralogist and chemist, first discovered ilmenite—some black sand containing one of the world's lightest metals—in the UK in 1791. Four years later, this light metal was isolated and named "titanium" by a German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth.
Titanium has comparable strength to steel, the world's most used metal, but is about 56% as dense and 45% lighter. Pure titanium is very difficult to extract from ilmenite and so it took about 145 years before the metal became generally useful.
Titanium alloys are made when controlled amounts of other elements—such as chromium, iron, vanadium, aluminium, nitrogen, niobium, molybdenum, ruthenium—are added to titanium.
Adding other elements to titanium can make it stronger or more resistant to corrosion. This, alongside other qualities, makes titanium alloys sought after in the aerospace, automotive, chemical, jewellery, biomedical, construction and other industries.
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Green charm 💚
Orange fervor 💛
Blue calm 💙
What will you choose? :)
Ilmenite
Fe2+TiO3
Locality:
Rocca Predellara Quarry (Tosca Quarry), Varsi, Ceno Valley, Taro Valley, Parma Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
0.37 mm Ilmenite crystal.
Collection & Photo Matteo Chinellato
A common accessory mineral disseminated in igneous rocks, as granites, gabbros,and kimberlites; in granite pegmatites, carbonatites, and high-grade metamorphic rocks; mayattain economic concentration in layered mafic intrusions and in “black sand” placer deposits. Weakly magnetic.