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Hematite

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Description
Locality: 
Cerro de la Sal, Pinoso, Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.9 × 0.4 × 0.5 cm
Weight: 
2.00gr
Description

This time we offer four specimens of these peculiar hematite crystals with a hexagonal bipyramidal habit from the Keuper subvolcanic materials in El Cabezo de la Sal or Cerro de la Sal, next to the Alicante municipality of Pinoso. This crystallization is very rare in Spain.

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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