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What does kyanite mean?

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  1. a blue neosilicate mineral, Al2SiO5, found in metamorphic rocks
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Mineral resources include lead, gold, zircon, coal, uranium, and kyanite, but most of these are not fully exploited.
They have parallel bright shiny mica wrapping round large grains of pink garnet, brown staurolite, or blue kyanite.
A heavy mineral concentrate, dominated by rutile and kyanite, yielded only a few zircons.
Rutile crystals, commonly associated with lazulite, pyrophyllite, and kyanite, are found at Horrsjoberg, Sweden.
However, most kyanite occurs as bladed crystals without well-developed terminations.
Growth of titanite took place during the metamorphic climax in rocks from the kyanite and sillimanite zones.

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