Research Report on Rutile Market - Global Industry Analysis, Outlooks and Forecast, 2014 – 2020

Rutile is a mineral mainly used as a source of titanium. Rutile occurs as transparent or opaque crystals and is available in various colors including black, yellow, golden or reddish brown depending on the source. Rutile has tetragonal crystal structure with two four sided prisms. Rutile is commonly found as an inclusion with other minerals such as quartz and is present as needle or parallel fibers in the minerals. Rutile is also found as an inclusion of several gem stones including star sapphire and is responsible for the asterism effect of gem stones.

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Rutile is abundantly available in nature and synthetic rutile can be manufactured from ilmenite, a mineral used for production of titanium and titanium dioxide. Producing synthetic rutile from ilmenite increases titanium concentration of the mineral thus improving efficiency of titanium extraction process. Ilmenite has titanium concentration of 60% and it is processed to remove several non titanium substances to produce synthetic rutile. Synthetic rutile has titanium concentration of over 85% and is among the most preferred sources of titanium. Major application of rutile comprises production of titanium, titanium dioxide white pigment used in several application segments including plastic, paper, coatings and paints among several others. Two major processes used for processing rutile to manufacture titanium include sulfate process and chloride process.

Sulfate process is the most preferred process in which, rutile is reacted with sulfuric acid which results in residue of unwanted substances in the mineral and titanium is extracted from rutile.

Titanium extraction is the dominant application segment for rutile therefore; demand for rutile is profoundly dependent on demand for titanium metal and titanium dioxide. High concentration of titanium in synthetic rutile is the foremost factor driving demand for rutile....