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Hematite

Fe2O3, Iron Oxide

 Steel or silver gray to black in some forms and red to brown in earthy forms. Sometimes tarnished with iridescent colors when in a hydrated form (called Turgite).
  • metallic or dull .

  • crystals are opaque

  • hardness is 5 - 6

  • specific Gravity is 5.3 (slightly above average for metallic minerals)

  • associated minerals include jasper, in banded iron formations, dipyramidal quartz, rutile, and pyrite among others.

  • England, Mexico, Brazil, Australia and the Lake Superior region.

 

Hematite
Iron Oxide
Price: $4ea

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Hematite is an important ore of iron and it's blood red color (in the powdered form) lends itself well in use as a pigment. Hematite gets its name from a greek word meaning blood-like because of the color of its powder.

 

 

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