Hematite by-nc-nd: Martin McDonald. The color red, in makeup and paint and of course, rust: brought to you by hematite. by-nc: Andrew West by-nc-nd: Lisa.

Hematite

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The color red, in makeup and paint and of course, rust: brought to you by hematite.

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Hematite is used as pigment all over the world.

Paint Cylinder (with pestle) Chaco Anasazi. Site name: Chaco Canyon. AD 700-1200.Hematite. L 9.1, W 2.4, T 0.8 cm

Credit: NPS /Chaco Culture National Historical Park, CHCU 6541

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Red paint for barns and the original red dye for clothing.

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Hematite is in the red rocks and soils all over the world.

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Delicate Arch, Utah, USA

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Wolwedans, NamibRand Nature Reserve, Namibia

Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, outside Las Vegas, Nevada

Red Rock Amphitheater, outside Denver, Colorado

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The Martian landscape is covered in fine red hematite dust.

A Presidential Panorama of Mars Credit: IMP Team, JPL, NASA

Hematite is found with other minerals at volcanic underwater

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This sample shows the iron oxide mineral hematite (red) with the

sulfate mineral barite (white) and the copper sulfide mineral

chalcopyrite (yellow-green).

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Hematite is in the red pipestone quarried at Pipestone National Monument. The pipestone is a weakly metamorphosed

claystone between layers of the pink Sioux Quartzite. Pipestone, and

especially this red pipestone, is sacred to Native American peoples.

Frog carved out of pipestone.

Quarry at Pipestone National Monument.

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Hematite is popular in North American jewelry.

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Banded Iron Formation

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Iron mined in the upper Midwest allowed the U.S. forces to produce the planes,

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Hematite is made into IRON and STEEL,

the backbone of our society.

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Humans use hematite to make iron for

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