Hematite Palm Stone Clear Quartz its peaks left rough above

its peaks left rough above wells cut for tealights

longer trace

one microcrystalline quartz (Red Jasper)

coloured by trace iron and manganese)

Hematite Palm Stone Clear Quartz its peaks left rough aboveHematite a mirror bright silver grey with real weight in the palm, iron oxide, the densest stone in the range. Polished to a metallic shine, yet it draws a red brown line. From Brazil, a palm stone. It is the principal ore of iron, and the weight is the tell: lift it and the heft is the first thing the hand notices, the mark of so much iron. Drawn across unglazed porcelain it leaves a red brown line, the rust red that names it, from the Greek haima,