AlexStrekeisen.it (run by Alessandro Da Mommio) has some beautiful thin section images of titanite:

https://www.alexstrekeisen.it/english/pluto/titanite.php

#MinCup25 #ThinSectionThursday #Titanite #Sphene #Granite #Mineralogy

Repost from last year:
I've seen sphene! (Sounds better than "the rock is tippsy with titanite")

Centimeter-size black sphene (titanite) with apatite (dark brown) and orthoclase feldspar (light brown). Folding pocket knife for scale.

From the Bancroft locality in Ontario, Canada. Grenville-aged (~1.2± billion years)

#MinCup25 #Titanite #Sphene #Bancroft #Ontario #Geology #Grenville

Driving in my truck right after a beer
Hey, that bump is shaped like a sphere
DUI?
How about you die?
I'll go a hundred miles
An hour!

Little do you know, I filled up on gas
Imma get your dome-making ass
Pulverize this fuck
​With my Tural truck
It seems you're out of luck!
TRUCK!

(this is why gulool ja ja was killed off halfway through, he would've dealt with sphene himself)

#ffxiv #ff14 #gpose #gulooljaja #sphene #dawntrail

Commission made for officerfriendly1

#commission #art #artist #drawings #drawingart #animeart #dibujodigital #digitalart #fantasyart #ffxiv #ff14 #finaltanfasy #Sphene

Requiem aeternam dona ets, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat ets.

(aka i am thinking very hard about alcides's alexandrian shard again)

#ffxiv #ff14 #gpose #sphene #viera #azem #dawntrail

A titanite lozenge imaged both using a cellphone through the microscope ocular, and with a proper imaging system. It's surrounded mostly by quartz (+feldspar).

Likely from the Grenville, but from a teaching collection two generations of retired professors ago.

#MinCup24 #Titanite #Sphene

I've seen sphene! (Sounds better than "the rock is tight with titanite")

Centimeter-size black sphene (titanite) with apatite (dark brown) and orthoclase feldspar (light brown). Folding pocket knife for scale.

From the Bancroft locality in Ontario, Canada. Grenville-aged (~1.2± billion years)
#MinCup24 #Titanite #Sphene #Bancroft #Ontario #Geology