Ilmenite for pigment and metal production
Rutile is easy to process to titanium metal or TiO2 pigment by the chlorination method while ilmenite is more complicated because of its high iron content. Since the world reserves of titanium are 90% in the form of ilmenite and only 10% in the form of rutile, the treatment of ilmenite is evidently an important question in metallurgy [1,2].