is endowed with large resources of heavy minerals occur mainly along coastal stretches of the and also in inland placers. Heavy mineral sands a group of seven minerals, viz, ilmenite, (brown ilmenite), rutile, zircon, sillimanite, and monazite. (FeO.TiO2 ) and rutile (TiO2 ) are the two chief of titanium. Titanium dioxide occurs in forms as rutile, anatase (octahedrite) and Hence option (d) is the correct answer. and rutile along with other heavy minerals are constituents of beach sand deposits found from Moti Daman-Umbrat coast (Gujarat) in the to Odisha coast in the east.