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You are bidding on hematite necklace featuring an
ANKH CROSS
and couple of useful minerals.
This mineral will help you with blood circulation and help you take crap properly since, it cleanse our
bodies when wear them all the time
=)
Hematite, also spelled as hæmatite, is the mineral form of iron(III) oxide (Fe2O3), one of several iron oxides. Hematite crystallizes in the rhombohedral system, and it has the same crystal structure as ilmenite and corundum. Hematite and ilmenite form a complete solid solution at temperatures above 950°C.
Hematite is a mineral, colored black to steel or silver-gray, brown to reddish brown, or red. It is mined as the main ore of iron. Varieties include kidney ore, martite (pseudomorphs after magnetite), iron rose and specularite (specular hematite). While the forms of hematite vary, they all have a rust-red streak. Hematite is harder than pure iron, but much more brittle. Maghemite is a hematite- and magnetite-related oxide mineral.
Huge deposits of hematite are found in banded iron formations. Grey hematite is typically found in places where there has been standing water or mineral hot springs, such as those in Yellowstone National Park in the United States. The mineral can precipitate out of water and collect in layers at the bottom of a lake, spring, or other standing water. Hematite can also occur without water, however, usually as the result of volcanic activity.
Clay-sized hematite crystals can also occur as a secondary mineral formed by weathering processes in soil, and along with other iron oxides or oxyhydroxides such as goethite, is responsible for the red color of many tropical, ancient, or otherwise highly weathered soils.
Good specimens of hematite come from England, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, United States and Canada.
Hematite was used for making seals in Babylonia as early as 1900-1300 B.C. Hematite once found use in mourning jewelry and hematite intaglios were relatively popular as stickpins (i.e., for ties), especially in the early part of the 20th century. More recently, hematite has gained popularity as cabochons and as spherical, faceted, and tumbled irregularly shaped beads. Despite its attractive appearance, such necklaces and earrings have found only relatively limited because of hematite's relatively high specific gravity -- many who have such jewelry complain that it is too heavy to wear over any extended period of time. Nonetheless, hematite jewelry continues to be fashioned and widely marketed. My observations suggest that necklaces made of relatively small spherical beads, which resemble black pearls, and relatively small faceted or tumbled pieces are worn most frequently and I suspect will likely have a good continuing market. Other uses include diverse ornaments, paper weights, and polished spheres and eggs. Also, rather recently, relatively flat pieces of botryoidal hematite have been fashioned to exhibit their natural shapes, which are described as resembling cumulus clouds (Johnson et al., 2000). And, because of its unique appearance it seems likely that rainbow hematite may receive a fair amount of attention in the future.
OCCURRENCES: Hematite used as a gemrock occurs as microcrystalline masses comprising nodules, etc.; the granular "new ... haematite" occurs like many hematite ores.
NOTEWORTHY LOCALITIES: Cumbria (in part formerly Cumberland), England; here and there in Germany, Norway, Sweden, Morocco, Canada and New Zealand; the island of Elba; Black Widow mine, Pima County, Arizona; Lake Superior district of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. The granular "new ... haematite" has been recorded as occurring in the Quadrila'tero Ferrifero area near Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil
REMARKS: Theophrastus' “On Stones” (~315 B.C.) is the earliest known reference to what is thought now to have been hematite; his name for the material, which translates to bloodstone, was apparently based on the fact that its red powder indicated it possibly represented coagulated blood. Some four hundred years later, Pliny, the Elder (pre-79 A.D, Book xxxvii) used hæmatites, the Latin equivalent, in his widely cited Historia Naturalis. The varietal name specularite (and the adjective specular) come from the Latin word for mirror, apparently reflecting (no pun intended) that use of highly lustrous black hematite.
The redness of hematite powder was an early recognized characteristic and, in ancient times, this property led to its being fashioned into amulets used to ward off or stop bleeding. Later, according to Pliny, the Elder (op cit.), hematite was described in volumes about precious stones written by Zachalias of Babylon and dedicated to Mithridates the Great, King of Pontus (d.63 B.C.) as having all sorts of attributes -- e.g., curing diseases of the eyes and liver, aiding those in battle, and even helping petitioners in trials. Ancient and present day Havasupai people of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado region use a hematite-rich paste-like mixture as a snake repellent.
Some people consider small hematite spheres to constitute an excellent substitution for black pearls. As already mentioned, however, apparently at least some of those who wear them find strings of hematite beads too heavy to wear comfortably except for short periods of time.
The following is recorded on the web site www.beringseaoriginals.com: “Hematite has long since been part of our heritage here in Alaska and Russia since the early days before Alaska was purchased by the United States. Lord Baranof once had skilled Aleut Silversmiths make hematite into rings and pendants. [and] This beautiful Black Diamond [-- as already noted, the name often applied to hematite, particularly in Alaska --] was presented to the Royal Family of Czar Alexander I as a Royal gift from his Alaskan Subjects to show their faithfulness to the Great Czar.”
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