Mineralpedia Details for Ilmenite
Ilmenite
- Formula
- Fe2+Ti4+O3
- Crystal System
- Trigonal
- Crystal Habit
- Tabular, Massive - Lamellar
- Cleavage
- None, None, None
- Luster
- Sub Metallic
- Color
- iron black, black
- Streak
- brownish black
- Class
- Trigonal - Rhombohedral
- Fracture
- Conchoidal
- Hardness
- 5-5.5
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Ilmenite from Snarum, Modum, Buskerud, Norway
Octahedral looking submetallic crystal to 1.2cm in yellow serpentine matrix.
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Ilmenite from Accomac Ravine, Hellam Twp., York Co., Pennsylvania, United States
Plates of silvery Ilmenite to 2cm in serpentine/calcite matrix.
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