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Ilmenite

Ex Dr. Krantz, Bonn, Germany
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Eigersund, Rogaland, Norway
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 6 × 3 cm
Weight: 
187.00gr
Description

Specimen consisting solely of amorphous, black ilmenite, possibly from an ore vein.

Comes with old label. The address "8, Rue Furstenberg, Paris" gives a hint that this label is originally from Félix Pisani (1831-1920). The top of the label was cut off, possibly to remove the collector's name or the price.

Félix Pisani, French chemist, mineral dealer and author, was born on April 28, 1831 in Constantinople, where his Venetian father was in the Russian diplomatic service. In 1854 he enrolled in the private chemistry school of Charles Frederic Gerhardt (1816-1856) in Paris, which was later to come under his own direction. He first dealt in minerals from addresses on the the rue de Mézières and the rue de l'Ancienne Comédie. The dates are uncertain, but he first began to sell mineral specimens to the British Museum in 1869.
Pisani's laboratory was later moved to quarters on 8 rue de Furstenberg where, in addition to private teaching and consulting work, he continued his business dealing in minerals and other geological specimens. His laboratory became a favorite meeting place of local mineralogists until the establishment of the Mineralogical Society of France in 1878, of which Pisani was one of the founders. "Pisanite" was named in his honor by Kenngott in 1860, but it was later discredited as Cu-rich melanterite. Pisani died in Paris at his home on the rue Furstenberg on November 7, 1920.

The label means: "Fer titané, peu magnétique, Egersund, Norwège" (Titaniferous iron, little magnetic, Egersund, Norway).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ilmenite

Formula: 
Fe2+TiO3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal - Rhombohedral
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Ilmen Natural Reserve, Ilmen Mts, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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