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Hematite

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Description
Locality: 
Kiruna, Norrbotten County, Sweden
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.2 × 4.7 × 4.5 cm
Weight: 
486.00gr
Description

Heavy specimen that features a banded rock composed almost exclusively by tiny laminar hematite crystals. The bands are bent, forming kink bands folds, that hold deformed crystals of pyrite?? now replaced by hematite. The associated label reads “Narvik, Norway”, that was the harbour from where the iron ore (“ijzer erts” ) from Kiruna was shipped to Belgium.

This specimen was recovered before 1980 from a shipment in the port of Antwerp by Joseph Verbist, who was the CEO of the CMB (Compagnie Maritime Belge). 486g

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hematite

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

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