Min. [Named by D. Viriani in 1813 from Liguria: see LIGURIAN and -ITE.] An apple-green variety of titanite.
1816. W. Phillips, Introd. Min. (1823), 207. Ligurite … occurs in a sort of talcose rocks … in the Appennines.
1839. Penny Cycl., XIII. 481/1. Ligurite, this mineral occurs crystallized; the primary form is an oblique rhombic prism.
1865. Watts, Dict. Chem., III. 695. Ligurite. A mineral having the angles and character of sphene (Dufrenoy) found in a talcose rock in the Apennines.
