Editing Ilmenite (section)

==Discovery==
In 1791 [[William Gregor]] discovered a deposit of black sand in a stream that runs through the valley just south of the village of [[Manaccan]] ([[Cornwall]]), and identified for the first time titanium as one of the constituents of the main mineral in the sand.<ref>Gregor, William (1791) "Beobachtungen und Versuche über den Menakanit, einen in Cornwall gefundenen magnetischen Sand" (Observations and experiments regarding menaccanite [i.e., ilmenite], a magnetic sand found in Cornwall), ''Chemische Annalen'' …, '''1''', [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZFAyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA40 pp. 40–54], [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZFAyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA103 103–119.]</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements|last1=Emsley|first1=John|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2001|location=Oxford, England, UK|isbn=978-0-19-850340-8 |chapter=Titanium |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j-Xu07p3cKwC|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/naturesbuildingb0000emsl}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Woodford |first1=Chris|author1-link=Chris Woodford (author) |title=Titanium |date=2003 |publisher=Benchmark Books |location=New York |isbn=9780761414612 |page=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=84W_FvfskTsC&dq=history+of+titanium&pg=PA4 |access-date=22 February 2022}}</ref> Gregor named this mineral '''''manaccanite'''''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Habashi |first1=Fathi |title=Historical Introduction to Refractory Metals |journal=Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review |date=January 2001 |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=25–53 |doi=10.1080/08827509808962488|bibcode=2001MPEMR..22...25H |s2cid=100370649 }}</ref> The same mineral was found in the [[Ilmensky Mountains]], near [[Miass]], [[Russia]], and named ''ilmenite''.<ref name=Sinkankas1964/>