Hematite
Casa de Pedra mine, Congonhas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
3.8 x 3.3 x 2.7 cm. This piece is a very attractive and impressive, sharp, notably well-formed, very lustrous/splendent, blocky modified rhombohedral/scalenohedral specimen of silvery-grey metallic Hematite. It's not the typical "iron rose" that people associate with the species. It's a very nice specimen with a stout, robust crystal - not common ...
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