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Also Known As	haematite

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Kidney ore, a compact variety of hematite, from the county of Cumbria in northwestern England

quartz with hematite inclusions

A sample of hematite, trigonal iron oxide, from Ibitiara, Minas Gerais, Braz.

A diagram displays illustrations of various common crystal aggregations and habits in minerals, including granular, lamellar, bladed, fibrous, acicular, radiating, dendritic, mammillated, colloform, stalactitic, geode, and oolitic forms, each labeled with mineral examples.

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Iron oxide corundum ilmenite ore hematite group mineral processing uraninite bauxite laterite galena carnotite scheelite sphalerite banded-iron formation cuprite

Basalt sample returned by Apollo 15, from near a long sinous lunar valley called Hadley Rille. Measured at 3.3 years old.

(Bed) Rocks and (Flint) Stones