zircon

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Commissioning of the Balranald mine in New South Wales, which aims to produce some 50,000 tons of zircon annually along with other mineral sands, is underway.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

For decades, Iluka has been mining zircon in Australia - a key ingredient in ceramics, and titanium dioxide used in the pigmentation of paint, plastics and paper.

From BBC • Aug. 12, 2025

They even offer hints of the origin of life: In 2015, Bell and her colleagues found bits of graphite in a 4.1-billion-year-old zircon that might have been derived from biological carbon.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 30, 2024

Now that scientists have discovered this zircon signal in Patagonia, they can start looking for signs of it in zircons from other places.

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024

Bournonite; apatite on muscovite; natural zircon in a spray of colors; dozens more minerals he cannot name.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr