Hematite

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A remarkable specimen of hematite from one of the old iron districts here in the USA, that is so large and fine that it could easily be mistaken (via a lost or assumed label ID) as a classic old English hematite "horsetooth," which would of course be valued at a multiple of the price. This lesser known mine (at least to me as a collector) was near the more famous Montreal Mine, and yielded the majority of the iron ore shipped from the Gogebic Range to market in the mid 1900s. The mine was shut down by 1965. This specimen was collcted in 1958 by a miner named Dante Bruneau of Hurley. It remained in his family until recently, when it was sold to a collector (i have a signed document to this effect from the family). The piece is remarkably preserved and frankly, I am stunned at this one and I think belongs in a museum to important US ore localities. It is large and hefty, at 900 grams (over 2 pounds) .