20333- Rare Titanite on Rutile after Ilmenite and with Microcline - Imilchil Mine Morocco
20333- Rare Titanite on Rutile after Ilmenite and with Microcline - Imilchil Mine Morocco 20333- Rare Titanite on Rutile after Ilmenite and with Microcline - Imilchil Mine Morocco 20333- Rare Titanite on Rutile after Ilmenite and with Microcline - Imilchil Mine Morocco 20333- Rare Titanite on Rutile after Ilmenite and with Microcline - Imilchil Mine Morocco 20333- Rare Titanite on Rutile after Ilmenite and with Microcline - Imilchil Mine Morocco 20333- Rare Titanite on Rutile after Ilmenite and with Microcline - Imilchil Mine Morocco

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20333- Rare Titanite on Rutile after Ilmenite and with Microcline - Imilchil Mine Morocco

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Species
Titanite on Rutile after Ilmenite and with Microcline
Age
-
Location
Er Rachidia Province, Morocco
Formation
Imilchil Mine
Size
28.2 mm   •    in
Weight
7 g   •    oz
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Description

Characteristically platy Ilmenite crystals with irregular contour and completely pseudomorphed by Rutile, coated by very sharp Titanite crystals that are bright, with very well defined faces and edges, and with a very apparent pleochroism that shows a yellow color under led light but is greenish with natural or neon light.
The process of replacement of Ilmenite by Rutile seems very similar to that of other localities with similar geological conditions (by example the Zambian Rutile) and it is due to hydrothermal processes at the site. These samples, very different from the Titanite previously known at Imilchil, have required a hurried analytical process that we’ll extend and complete. 


Specimen like this has been photographed and published as a novelty at the 2016 Ste. Marie Show in the magazine "Lapis" number 07-08/2016, page 73
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (2016)

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