A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Banded hematite-maghemite from Ischpeming, Wisconsin |
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| Description | This banded sample contains hematite and maghemite, both Fe2O3. Hematite is one of the most common minerals. The color of red sandstone, and most other red rocks, is due to hematite. This specimen contains reddish hematite altering with more metallic looking maghemite, a form of hematite with a different atomic arrangement than normal. |
| Location | USA ▹ Wisconsin. Near Ischpeming. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-07-24. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #3671. |
| Key words | hematite, maghemite, Wisconsin |
| Tech details | 670 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital. |
| GeoDIL number | 1314 |
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