Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or resembling hematite.
- Of a blood-red color; also, dull-red with a mixture of brown.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to hematite, or resembling it.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
hematite , or resembling it.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the hematitic iron ores of Lake Superior, magnetism is less pronounced than in the magnetites; and in the soft hydrous hematites, like those of the Mesabi district, it may cause only slight disturbance of the magnetic needle.
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I again scrambled up to the hematitic bed of clay under the basaltic cliff, and dug out a sufficient quantity of the charred branches, which I sent to the Duke, in confirmation of his theory as to the origin of the leaf-beds at Mull.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885
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Having scrambled up to a great height, I found a thick band of hematitic clay underneath the upper bed of basalt, which was about sixty feet thick.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885
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But red, gray, and brown are also prevailing colors in the rock; occasional veins and blotches of white give lightness to the darker portions; and veins of hematitic and deep umbry tints, variety to the portions that are lighter.
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At the eastern zone, diamond drill holes HDDS010 and HDDS011 were successful in coring hematitic silicified breccia similar to the mineralized boulders found downslope from this area.
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The overlying sandstone is bleached and unusually hematitic.
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The scandium mineralization is concentrated within the hematitic, limonitic, and saprolitic zones with values up to 350ppm Sc. In the 1980s, 134 rotary air blast (RAB) holes (for 6779 meters) and two diamond drill holes (each 250 meters deep) were drilled in the area exploring several of these Alaskan-type pyroxenite bodies for platinum group.
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The laterite zone, locally up to 40m thick, is layered with hematitic clay at the surface followed by limonitic clay, saprolitic clay, weathered bedrock and finally fresh bedrock.
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The laterite zone, locally up to 40m thick, is layered with hematitic clay at the surface followed by limonitic clay, saprolitic clay, weathered bedrock and finally fresh bedrock.
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In addition to the substantial gold resources the Luiri property also hosts the large, prominently outcropping hematitic Nambala iron deposit.
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