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Formula: TiC
Titanium carbide
Crystal System: Isometric
Specific gravity: 10.01 calculated
Hardness: 9 to 9½
Colour: Dark grey
Environments
Igneous environments
Metamorphic environments
Derived from Earth's mantle
Localities
At Orebody CR-11, Kangjinla Cr deposit, Luobusha ophiolite, Qusum County, Shannan Prefecture, Tibet, China,
wodegongjieite is found in two inclusions in
corundum:
(1) as a partial overgrowth up to 1.5 μm thick around a spheroid 20 μm across of
wenjiite, kangjinlaite,
zhiqinite and badengzhuite.
(2) as pools up to 0.25 μm wide filling interstices between wenjiite,
jingsuiite,
osbornite–khamrabaevite and
corundum
(MM 86.6.975–987).
At the Chinorsai intrusion, Pendzhikent District, Zeravshan Range, Sughd, Tajikistan, khamrabaevite occurs
in spheroidal groups in granodiorites that have undergone
silica metasomatism. Associated minerals include magnetite,
iron and carbonaceous material
(HOM).
At the type locality, the Ir-Tash Stream Basin, Arashan Mtn, Chatkal-Kuraminskii Range, Tashkent, Uzbekistan,
khamrabaevite occurs as skeletal cubic crystals, 0.1 to 0.3 mm in size, in
suessite of Lower Permian (290 to 256 million years ago) amygdaloidal
basaltic porphyry
(AM 70.1329-1335).
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