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Hematitic

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he·ma·tite  (hm-tt)
n.
A black or blackish-red to brick-red mineral, essentially Fe2O3, the chief ore of iron.

[Middle English emathite, ematites, from Latin haematts, from Greek (lithos) haimatts, bloodlike (stone), from haima, haimat-, blood.]

hema·titic (-ttk) adj.


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Interparticle cements can exceed 30 percent by volume of oolitic grainstone and include very early isopachous marine spar, hematitic coats of uncertain origin, vadose meniscus microcrystalline spar, and pore-filling meteoric spar (Haywick and Kopaska-Merkel, in prep).
The host rocks for most of the mineral occurrences and the unit overlying the most intense portion of the magnetic anomaly is a brecciated, hematitic felsic volcanic rock, locally with veins of purple fluorite and disseminated pyrite.
Mineralization previously documented on Eagle Nest is very fine-grained to visible flaky gold, with oxidized copper ores and staining, in a linear, lenticular ore body with a steeply dipping fault zone cutting metamorphic Mesozoic, red, hematitic shale.
 
 
 
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