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Kidney ore, a compact variety of hematite, from the county of Cumbria in northwestern England quartz with hematite inclusions A sample of hematite, trigonal iron oxide, from Ibitiara, Minas Gerais, Braz. common crystals
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Basalt sample returned by Apollo 15, from near a long sinous lunar valley called Hadley Rille. Measured at 3.3 years old.
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Also Known As haematite

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Kidney ore, a compact variety of hematite, from the county of Cumbria in northwestern England
quartz with hematite inclusions
A sample of hematite, trigonal iron oxide, from Ibitiara, Minas Gerais, Braz.
common crystals
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Basalt sample returned by Apollo 15, from near a long sinous lunar valley called Hadley Rille. Measured at 3.3 years old.
(Bed) Rocks and (Flint) Stones