APPLICATIONS: | Minor ore of titanium and as mineral specimens. |
ASSOCIATED MINERALS: | Brookite, rutile, quartz, feldspars, apatite, hematite, chlorite, micas, calcite and sphene. |
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: | Scorpio. |
CHEMICAL STRUCTURE: | TiO2, Titanium Oxide. |
CLASS: | Oxides and Hydroxides. |
CLEAVAGE: | Perfect in the basal direction and in four directions, pyramidal. |
COLOR: | Brown to black, also yellow and blue. |
CRYSTAL HABITS: | Tetragonal dipyramids that come to sharp elongated terminations points. These crystals look like stretched out octahedrons. |
CRYSTAL SYSTEM: | Tetragonal, 4/m 2/m 2/m. |
FIELD INDICATORS: | Crystal habit, luster, cleavage, density, streak, associations and locality. |
FRACTURE: | Subconchoidal. |
GENERAL INFORMATION: | Crystals are easily altered in nature and sometimes pitted. |
GEOGRAPHY: | Somerville, Massachusetts and Gunnison Co., Colorado, USA; Tavistock, Devon, England; Austria; Diamantina District, Brazil; in the French Alps and at the Binnatal area of Switzerland. |
HARDNESS: | 5.5 - 6. |
LUSTER: | Adamantine to sub metallic. |
METAPHYSICAL: | Used to teach oneself that alteration and circumstances can be obtained painlessly. Helps one to overcome resistance to change and aids in side-effects from change. It contains the energy to help one in collecting, retaining and assimilating information. It is an excellent mineral for the educating of technical ideas, as well as teaching others in the aspects of peace and unity. It helps one to look within without the effects of seeing through, back or forward, which results in decisiveness in all respects to ones life. It stimulates insight during "gazing" as well as producing insightfullness. |
PHYSICAL: | Used for the treatment of allergic reactions, disorder of the eyes and sensitivity to medicine. Also, used to stabilize and balance metabolic processing. |
TRANSPARENCY: | Opaque. |
SPECIFIC GRAVITY: | 3.8 - 3.9. |
STREAK: | White. |
VIBRATES: | To the numbers 7 and 1. |
