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All attempts to find a buyer for TiO₂ are appearing to be futile rutile ?

Rutile has among the highest refractive indices at visible wavelengths of any known crystal, and also exhibits a particularly large birefringence and high dispersion. Owing to these properties, it is useful for the manufacture of certain optical elements, especially polarization optics, for longer visible and infrared wavelengths up to about 4.5μm.

The occurrence of large specimen crystals is most common in pegmatites, skarns, and granite greisens.

In large enough quantities in beach sands, rutile forms an important constituent of heavy minerals and ore deposits. Miners extract and separate the valuable minerals—e.g., rutile, zircon, and ilmenite. The main uses for rutile are the manufacture of refractoryceramic, as a pigment, and for the production of titanium metal.
Finely powdered rutile is a brilliant white pigment and is used in paints, plastics, paper, foods, and other applications that call for a bright white color. Titanium dioxide pigment is the single greatest use of titanium worldwide.

So is Mt Peake's TiO₂ actually Rutile?- do we have a Geo amongst us?