Hematite

Golden rutile crystals grow directly out of dark gray hematite crystals on this specimen from Novo H.....

I love the brilliant specimens of rutile and hematite like this one.  On this specimen the gold.....

Here is a beautiful sunburst of golden rutile, with needle-like crystals growing epitactic on the ed.....

This is a very fine specimen of rutile on dark gray hematite - a formation mineralogists call epitax.....

I am always amazed by the way the rutile crystals emerge directly out of silvery hematite crystals. .....

This specimen of golden RUTILE and metallic HEMATITE comes from Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil. This .....

This specimen of golden RUTILE and metallic HEMATITE comes from Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil. This .....

Here is a very sharp, very bright crystal of pyrite from the Island of Elba – where Napoleon was exi.....

The golden rutile on this specimen appears to grow directly out of the silver gray hematite in the m.....

The golden rutile on this specimen appears to grow directly out of the silver gray hematite in the m.....

This specimen of golden RUTILE and metallic HEMATITE comes from Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil. This .....

Here is a very good specimen from the recent discovery of hematite pseudomorphs after magnetite crys.....

Here is a bubble-like botryoidal hematite from the Irhoud Mine in Morocco that is a brilliantly lust.....

Specimens like this one, with dark red, hematite coated quartz crystals on a bed of hematite plates,.....

Here's an aesthetic cluster of sharp red quartz crystals. The quartz crystals are very sharply termi.....

Here's an attractive cluster of sharply terminated red quartz crystals. The quartz crystals are very.....

This hematite specimen from Morocco features brilliantly shiny botryoidal bubbles that cover the ent.....

The pyrite crystals on this excellent specimen are dazzling – flashy, and brilliant, mirror-faced.&n.....

"Iron rose" is a term used to describe rounded aggregates of tabular hematite crystals, where the cr.....

Brightly lustrous specimens of hematite that form as large bubbles, like those on this specimen, are.....