zircon

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A jargoon is a kind of smoky zircon.

From Washington Post

Australia is the world’s top producer of lithium and rutile and the second-largest producer of zircon and rare earth elements.

From Seattle Times

Some of zircon crystals were “shocked”—inscribed with linear fracture patterns that are the hallmark of an impact.

From Science Magazine

Rio Tinto's South African subsidiary Richards Bay Minerals extracts and refines heavy mineral sands and produces ilmenite, rutile, and zircon at its site in northern KwaZulu-Natal province.

From Reuters

To get a clue as to how they had ended up in modern-day Wyoming, the team crushed the rocks to retrieve and date the zircon crystals contained inside, a bit like studying ancient fingerprints.

From New York Times