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The intensity of chemical weathering: Geochemical constraints from

These high field strength elements (HFSE) are immobile during chemical weathering (Middelburg et al., 1988, Nesbitt and Markovics, 1997) as a consequence of the refractoriness of zircon and rutile. As zircon and rutile are both heavy minerals in sedimentary provenance, it is imaginable that they may suffer from hydraulic sorting (the …

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determined. Apatite, ilmenite, quartz, rutile, and zircon are minerals that frequently occur with monazite among other minerals. Hence they were chosen as gangue minerals in this study. The Iso-Electric Point (IEP) of monazite, apatite, ilmenite, quartz, rutile, and zircon are 5.3, 8.7, 3.8, 3.4, 6.3, and 5.1 respectively.

Combined rutile–zircon thermometry and U–Pb

We then combine these thermometric results with in situ zircon and rutile U–Pb dating data to link U–Pb age to thermal conditions, and to detect if zircon and rutile grew in the peak and/or post-peak metamorphic stage. Finally, we discuss the implications for the tectonothermal evolution of the south Altyn Tagh HP-UHP metamorphic terrane. 2.

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Rutile

Rutile. Rutile is a common mineral in sand and one of the most important sources of titanium. The other important titanium-bearing mineral is ilmenite. It has very simple chemical composition (TiO 2 ). So it is an oxide like ilmenite and magnetite. Crystals are usually elongated and typically deep reddish brown although that color is best seen ...

Rutile: The titanium mineral in white paint and star ruby

Rutile is a titanium oxide mineral with a chemical composition of TiO 2. It is found in igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks throughout the world. Rutile also occurs as needle-shaped crystals in other minerals. Rutile has a high specific gravity and is often concentrated by stream and wave action in "heavy mineral sands" that exist today ...

Temperature and co-crystallization effects on Zr isotopes

Fig. 12. Influence of co-crystallizing phases on isotope profiles shown through fraction of Zr remaining (ƒ) vs. δ 94/90 Zr (‰) for a modeled zircon for a system with a constant change in temperature. Red, blue, and black lines show the isotopic composition of melt, titanite, and zircon, respectively.

Rutile R632 – A New Natural Reference Material for …

Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research. A new natural rutile reference material is presented, suitable for U‐Pb dating and Zr‐in‐rutile thermometry by …

Detrital zircon and rutile geochronology, …

Here we describe and present U–Pb ages of the detrital zircon and rutile together with in-situ ε-Hf data from Lower to Middle Cambrian sandstones. Some …

Rutile's fiery brilliance

Rutile is the most thermodynamically sta-ble form of titanium dioxide — TiO2 — under most geologic conditions, and typically occurs as an accessory mineral in metamor-phic and …

In situ rutile U-Pb dating based on zircon

The developed water vapor-assisted LA-ICPMS U-Pb dating method has been successfully applied to the analysis of zircon, monazite, xenotime, and titanite with …

Heavy Minerals Studies of Coastal Sands from Bavanapadu …

It comprises 45% ilmenite, 25% garnet, 25% sillimanite, 2% rutile, 1% monazite, zircon, mangitite, and kyanite, and 1% monazite, zircon, mangitite, and kyanite are 1% each and 2% other heavy minerals (Table 11.4). The garnet, ilmenite, sillimanite, and rutile decrease in their concentration with the increase in the course to fine fractions.

Detrital rutile: Records of the deep crust, ores and fluids

Detrital rutile: covering up zircon's blind spots 3.1. Age records. The strengths of using the age records of other accessory minerals such as rutile, instead of/ and/or complementary to zircon, relies much on the fact that although zircon is the ideal candidate for very precise and robust U–Pb dating, it mostly provides information about ...

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Thereafter, Abeidu (1972) studied the separation of monazite from zircon using experiments in a Hallimond tube with an oleic acid collector and Na 2 S as a monazite activator. Pavez and Peres (1993) more specifically studied the monazite-zircon-rutile flotation system. Sodium oleate and hydroxamate collectors were used, with metasilicate …

Temperature dependence of Zr in rutile: empirical

The effects of temperature (T) and pressure (P) on the Zr content in rutile have been empirically calibrated in this study by analysing rutile–quartz–zircon …

An experimental study of Ti and Zr partitioning among …

mometer assumes equilibrium among zircon, rutile, and a silica polymorph [or independent estimates of the silica a SiO 2 ðÞand titania a TiO 2 ðÞactivities during zircon growth]. Ti-in-zircon thermometry has been an important part of the discussion regarding the origin and significance of the Hadean Jack Hills zircons, and the relatively ...

Differential exhumation and cooling history of North

For rutile from the same sample 11YM29, the Zr-in-rutile thermometer gave a temperature (685 ± 6 to 696 ± 6 °C, with weighted mean of 691 ± 2 °C, Fig. 5 c) consistent with that of the zircon cores, which may indicate that the rutile preserves the Zr concentration of the first eclogite-facies metamorphic event (i.e., during oceanic ...

Microgeochemistry of rutile and zircon in eclogites

Compared to the Zr-in-rutile geothermometer, the Ti-in-zircon geothermometer has two obvious advantages. On the one hand, zircon is durable, and the Ti diffusion rate in zircon is slow (Cherniak and Watson, 2007).For example, the Ti diffusion rate in zircon at 900 °C is about 10 orders of magnitude slower than the Zr diffusion rate …

Integrated detrital rutile and zircon provenance reveals …

Comparison of detrital rutile and zircon provenance reveal drainage divides in early Paleozoic northern Gondwana. Abstract Early Paleozoic sandstones deposited along the northern margin of Gondwana are commonly interpreted to represent a vast, well-mixed, and far-travelled blanket of sand sourced from Neoproterozoic orogenic belts in …

State-of-the-art and perspectives in the heavy mineral …

The current status of the heavy mineral industry and its perspectives are poorly examined in Sri Lanka. Therefore, this paper presents and assesses the heavy mineral industry of Sri Lanka related to ilmenite, rutile, and zircon using real-time data, obtained from Lanka Mineral Sands Limited (LMSL), during the last decade.

Crystallization thermometers for zircon and rutile

In a strategy similar to that used for zircon, rutile crystals were grown in the presence of zircon and quartz (or hydrous silicic melt) at 1–1.4 GPa and 675–1,450°C and analyzed for Zr by EMP. The experimental results were complemented by EMP analyses of rutile grains from six natural rocks of diverse origin spanning 0.35–3 GPa and 470 ...

Late Neoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the northern

The zircon and rutile U-Pb age spectra of the lower Sugatbrak Fm. are characterized by a distinct ∼ 1.8 Ga (metamorphic) rutile age peak, and the absence of a ∼ 1.95 Ga peak (Fig. 9 e), matching well with contemporaneous metamorphic events in …

Major Mines & Projects | Namakwa Sands Operation

2049. The Namakwa Sands operations includes: • The Northern operations consisting of the Namakwa Sands Mine and the Mineral Separation Plant. • The Southern operations that consist of the Smelting Operations. Finale saleable ilmenite, rutile, and zircon products are transported from the Mineral Separation Plant to the Smelter.

Zirconium and Hafnium 2018

The average range of 2018 published prices for china standard-grade bulk zircon concentrate was $1,400 to $1,550 per metric ton. The average unit value of imported zirconium ore and concentrates in 2018 was $1,380 per metric ton, a 36% increase from that in 2017 (table 4). The published yearend price range of abrasive and refractory …

Dating Continental Subduction Beneath the Samail …

The rutile ages postdate Sm-Nd and U-Pb dates from the same rocks (Figure 9), but this may be explained partly by systematic offsets, with far higher external uncertainties on rutile dates relative to garnet or zircon dates. The preferential mafic-rutile Pb* loss is difficult to explain with our data alone; it could imply shorter effective ...

Coupled Zircon-Rutile U-Pb Chronology: LA ICP-MS …

Following the development and distribution to the community of good quality reference materials in the last decade, rutile U-Pb thermochronology (with a precision …

In situ rutile U-Pb dating based on zircon calibration …

The present study demonstrated that zircon and rutile have similar elemental fractionation behavior in large ablation crator (>44 µm) with high …

LA-ICP-MS U–Pb dating of detrital rutile and zircon from …

The detrital rutile- and zircon-bearing sample DR11-116 (S 22°13,639′, E 132°46,009′) was collected from a homogeneous, fine-grained, cross-bedded, white-bluish quartzite (Fig. 4 c and d). In thin section, the quartzite shows well-preserved sedimentary bedding (Fig. 5 c and d). The quartz grains are rounded to sub-angular and show ...

Late Neoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the northern

In this study, detrital zircon and rutile U-Pb dating data show a wide range of dates. The zircon are primarily cluster between ∼ 1800 and ∼ 2100 Ma and ∼ 650 to ∼ 850 Ma, respectively. While parts of the analyzed rutiles show more obvious and complex variations of U-Pb ages between ∼ 2.8 and ∼ 2.5 Ga, ∼1.4 to ∼ 1.8 Ga, and ∼ ...

Rutile and its applications in earth sciences

Introduction. With an estimated TiO 2 concentration of about 0.7 wt.% (Rudnick and Fountain, 1995), titanium is the ninth most abundant element of the Earth's continental crust. The most important titanium minerals are rutile (TiO 2), ilmenite (FeTiO 3) and titanite (CaTiSiO 5) (Fig. 1, Fig. 2).Rutile is an accessory mineral in a variety of …