hematite
hematite crystals with rutile needles from Mucambo, Bahia, Brazil
hematite crystal from China
hematite crystals
iron rose hematite from Brazil
hematite crystals from Brazil
iron roses from Fedenstock in Switzerland
hematite rectangular cut
hematite cabochon
Detailed sheet
hematite
It is also called blood or blood stone and his name probably comes from the fact that it turns blood red the cooling water when it is cut (from the Greek “haimatos” for blood).
Note however a false-English friend: “bloodstone”, this English name is referred to the heliotrope and not hematite.
CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Fe2O3
iron oxide
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Main color
black
Other colors
brown
grayish or reddish brown
Color of streak
brown, red
Luster
metallic
Hardness
5.5 to 6.5
Density
5.12 to 5.30
Cleavage
none
Fracture
fibrous, uneven
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
Transparency
opaque
only the very thin strips are translucent and red
Refractive index
2.870 - 3.220
Double refraction
0.280
definite uniaxial negative
visible double refraction
No
Pleochroism
absent
Number of colors
1
on some thin stripes we can distinguish a very slight yellow - orange pleochroism
Fluorescence
none
CRYSTALS PROPERTIES
tabular pseudo-hexagonal, sometimes botryoidal, but the well-developed crystals are known as oligiste, from the Greek
crystals system
trigonal
OTHER INFORMATIONS
Astrological sign
Aquarius, Aries, Cancer, Leo, Virgo
APPROACHING GEMS
Exploited
sites
As for Goethite its deposits are extremely numerous.
Only to mention those who deliver the hematite used in jewelry: England (Cumberland), Bangladesh, Brazil, China, the United States (Minnesota), the new Zealand, the Czech Republic (ore Mountains) and the historic deposit of Elba in Italy.
use in jewelry
It is especially used to make balls mounted in necklaces, but it also cut in platelets, in beveled tables for rings, cameos, intaglios … It’s not a gem of a great value.
Reduced to powder, known as “red English” it serves to maintain gold and silver . It is used to make burnishers that gilders use to compress the gold leaf to polish it.
Daily care
and precautions
very resistant but still shock sensitive
imitations and
treatments
There is an imitation called “hematin” which is distinguished by its magnetism when the hematite is not.
Historical
healing properties
It would help to boost the energy sources hidden inside us, to gain stability and courage. It could help us overcome some difficult tasks in life using all our senses, both physical and psychic. This is the stone of lawyers, doctors, social workers because it gives the strength to overcome the experienced problems.
Prehistoric people coated their bodies of hematite powder as they considered it as the blood of the mother earth: American Indians, Chinese, African peoples still do so.
The Egyptians put an hematite talisman under the head of the deceased to help them win the afterlife, the Babylonians considered it a lucky charm, and, in the East, it was said to warn of future dangers through dreams.
It would also protect the virgins against the “evil eye”. A hematite placed on the root chakra would intensify the blood constitution and enhance the body. Once upon a time on the battlefield, it was put on injuries to stop them from bleeding. This is the “blood stone”.
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