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Hematite Var Pencil Ore

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Hematite Var Pencil Ore

ex Charles Ottley Groom-Napier (M&M), ex Krantz
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Description
Locality: 
Cumbria, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.7 × 2.3 × 1.7 cm
Description

Another Groom-Napier riddle: fibrous haematite as part of kidney ore with the habit of the so called "pencil ore". Label states Phillips, Cleveland. I couldn´t find any literature / web resource on haematite in this form from Cleveland so i suspect the specimen to be from the UK like a lot of the M&M specimens. Could be Lancashire (now Cumbria) or West Cumbria Iron Ore Field. But just a speculation, maybe someone knows this stuff, which is despite of all uncertainties quite rare. Groom Napier was well known for making up localities to "increase" the value/rarity  of his specimens.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hematite

Formula: 
Fe2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

Pencil Ore

Variety Of: 

Hematite

Formula: 
Fe2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Synonym Of: 

Graphite

Formula: 
C
Strunz: 
1.CB.05a
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0

Hematite

Formula: 
Fe2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

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