ILMENORUTILE (Ti,Nb,Fe)3O6 Hexagonal

Description: Found as black to dark brown platey to prismatic xls. in granite pegmatites.

MARATHON COUNTY: Ilmenorutile is found as granular to blocky black micro-crystals in pegmatites at the Koss Pit several miles west of Wausau. (Buchholz, Falster and Simmons, 1999, 2000)
ΚΚΚ - Ilmenorutile is found as granular to blocky black micro-crystals in pegmatites at the Wimmer #3 Pit (SW sec. 2 T.27 N. R.5E.) SW of Rib Mountain. (Buchholz, and Simmons, 2002) ΚΚ - Ilmenorutile is found as black micro-crystals in pegmatites at the LaDick Pit east just east of Hwy 107, north of Highway 153. (Buchholz, Falster and Simmons, 2000)

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