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What does hematite mean?

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Noun
  1. (mineralogy) An iron ore, mainly peroxide of iron, Fe2O3.
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The hematite and the clays appear intergrown, suggesting that they co-precipitated.
Sandstones with this component contain authigenic hematite intergrown with kaolinite and illite and replacing muscovite.
At Azegour, Morocco, uraninite occurs in tactite with molybdenite, chalcopyrite, barite, pyrite, hematite, and garnet.
The fluids that precipitated the veins were a likely source for some of the iron that formed the hematite.
Most, if not all, of these mines have likely produced specimen-quality hematite, goethite, and perhaps other minerals.
A spectrometer on MGS revealed a large deposit of hematite in the heavily cratered highlands.

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