| Mineral | ANATASE |
| Chemistry | TiO 2 |
| Class | Oxides and Hydroxides |
| Uses | A very minor ore of titanium and as mineral specimens. |
| Color | brown indigo bluegreen greyblack . |
| Luster | AdamantineResinous |
| Transparency | crystals are opaque. |
| CrystalSystem | Tetragonal |
| CrystalHabits | include the typical tetragonal dipyramids that come to sharp elongated terminations points.These crystals look like stretched out octahedrons. |
| Cleavage | Perfect Perfect on {001} and {011} |
| Fracture | perfect in the basal direction and in four directions, pyramidal. |
| Hardness | 5½ - 6 |
| SpecificGravity | 3.89 g/ccm |
| Streak | Colorless to pale yellow. |
| Characteristics | Crystals are easily altered in nature and sometimes pitted. |
| Occurences | include Somerville, Massachusetts and Gunnison Co., Colorado, USA; Tavistock, Devon, England; Austria; Diamantina District, Brazil; in the French Alps and at the Binnatal area of Switzerland. |
| Indicators | crystal habit, luster, cleavage, density, streak, associations and locality. |
| DensityNote | average for metallic minerals |
| IMAStatus | Approved |
| Discovered | 1801 |
| CellParameters | a = 3.78c = 9.51 |
| Ratio | a:c = 1 : 2.516 |
| OpticalType | Uniaxial (-) |
| RI | n ω =2.561 n ε =2.488 |
| Birefringence | δ=0.073 |
| SurfaceRelief | Very High |
| TypeLocality | St Christophe-en- Oisans Bourg d Oisans Isère Rhône- Alpes France |
| Strunz | 4/D.14-10 4 : Oxides & Hydroxides D : Oxides with metal : oxygen = 1:2 (MO2 and related compounds) 14 : Anatase - Downeyite series |
