Hematite Palm Stone Cedar none of it plant

none of it plant

first described in 1902 and named for the gemmologist George Frederick Kunz

but a quiet kind of presence - the resin people have reached for at gatherings where words feel insufficient

marked with fine lengthwise grooves: schorl

before the chalcedony sealed around them

Hematite Palm Stone Cedar none of it plantHematite 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,