Minerals / Haematite, Frizington.

  Haematite is an iron oxide, Fe₂O₃  This specimen is botryoidal in habit, a habit which is commonly referred to as  " Kidney Ore ". Hematite is mined as the main ore of iron, and this specimen is from the Frizington iron mine in Cumbria.

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