Hematite and Amethyst

Original Description: *Incomplete. Hematite (Fe2O3) can be steel-grey, red, reddish brown or black in colour. Lustre is metallic and streak is dark red, cherry-red or brownish red. Hardness is 5 to 6. Hematite can be thick to thin tabular that are often subparallel growths or rosettes but can also be compact, granular, radiated, reniform, botryoidal, columnar, micaceous (Specular) or earthy (Red Ocher). Amethyst (SiO2) is the purple variety of Quartz. Lustre is vitreous or greasy and streak is white. Hardness is 7. Quartz usually occurs as prismatic crystals that are terminated by double rhombohedrons that have striations crosswise. Quartz can also be granular, disseminated or massive.