Microscopic analyses reveal that the oxide mineralogy of the dolerites is dominated by magnetite and ilmenite. |
The Herbeira websterites contain diopside, enstatite, and pargasite with olivine, garnet, spinel, magnetite and ilmenite as minor phases. |
The rock consists of plagioclase, K-feldspar, quartz, clinopyroxene and biotite, with abundant apatite, and ilmenite. |
Lunar settlers could extract oxygen from the minerals ilmenite and anorthite. |
It grades into a manganese-rich ilmenite that ultimately replaces the spinel phase near the transition to the garnet amphibolite. |
The more pelitic samples contain euhedral orthopyroxene residual biotite, and dendritic ilmenite grains. |