[Solved] Ilmenite and rutile, abundantly available certain coastal tracts of India, are rich sources of which one of the fallowing? Aluminium Copper Iron Titanium

Q96. Ilmenite and rutile, abundantly available certain coastal tracts of India, are rich sources of which one of the fallowing?

1. Aluminium
2. Copper
3. Iron
4. Titanium

Answer: 4

Heavy mineral sands – seven minerals – ilmenite, leucoxene (brown ilmenite), rutile, zircon, sillimanite, garnet and monazite. Ilmenite (FeO.TiO2 ) and rutile (TiO2 ) are the two chief minerals of titanium. – constituents of beach sand deposits found right from Moti Daman-Umbrat coast (Gujarat) in the west to Odisha coast in the east.