Now Raúl Baragiola and colleagues at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, have tried to reproduce this reaction in the lab by firing protons at crystals
of ilmenite and anorthite, two of the most common lunar minerals.
Not exact matches
Mineral sands miner Base Resources has received a force majeure notice from one
of its offtake partners, which will affect an $ US11.6 million
ilmenite sales agreement.
Mineral Deposits and Eramet are 50 - 50 partners in a business that digs up minerals sands in Senegal and processes most
of what it extracts from those granules at a titanium and iron
ilmenite processing plant at Tyssedal in Norway.
Space scientists are keen to map the concentration
of the titanium - dioxide - rich mineral
ilmenite on the moon's surface, says Jim Garvin
of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The titanium ended up in a mineral called
ilmenite (FeTiO3) that typically doesn't crystallize until a very late stage, when perhaps only 5 percent
of the original melt remains.
I'll be kind & use the same in - the - ground prices as last year (approx. 10 %
of medium / long term average spot prices): A price
of $ 18 per tonne for
ilmenite looks spot on, the $ 100 price for rutile's mostly irrelevant, and a $ 133 price for zircon's generous considering recent grading & pricing.
I've used per tonne prices
of $ 18 for
ilmenite, $ 100 for rutile, $ 133 for zircon, a 50 % haircut for probable reserves, and 75 % for measured & indicated resources.