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Hematite

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Description
Locality: 
Dypingdal, Snarum, Modum, Viken, Norway
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 4 × 3.4 cm
Description

Big sharp undamaged crystal of hematite from Dypingdal. It was indeed labelled as ilmenite, but these classic specimens, also classified sometimes as pseudomorphs after magnetite, are indeed hematite.

Collected by J.Sibtsen in 1975-77. Ex Jan Sibtsen #2380.

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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