DOCUMENTATION_FORMAT: MINERAL

SAMPLE_ID: FE2602

MINERAL_TYPE: Oxide

MINERAL: Hematite (Hematite group)

FORMULA: alpha-Fe2O3

FORMULA_HTML: alpha-Fe₂O₃

COLLECTION_LOCALITY: Larimer County, CO

ORIGINAL_DONOR: Colorado School of Mines

CURRENT_SAMPLE_LOCATION: CSES/CIRES, Univ. of CO, Boulder

ULTIMATE_SAMPLE_LOCATION: CSES/CIRES, Univ. of CO, Boulder

SAMPLE_DESCRIPTION:

Dimorphous with Maghemite.

END_SAMPLE_DESCRIPTION.

XRD_ANALYSIS:

Pure (?).

Kruse, F.A., P.L. Hauff, eds., 1992, The IGCP-264 Spectral Properties Database. IUGS/UNESCO, Special Publication, 211 p., (in press).

END_XRD_ANALYSIS.

COMPOSITIONAL_ANALYSIS_TYPE: None # XRF, EM(WDS), ICP(Trace), WChem

COMPOSITION_TRACE:

COMPOSITION_DISCUSSION:

END_COMPOSITION_DISCUSSION.

MICROSCOPIC_EXAMINATION:

avg gr sz = 18 µm

2 vol % pyroxene or feldspar contamination

red luster semi-transparent grains. G. Swayze.

END_MICROSCOPIC_EXAMINATION.

SPECTROSCOPIC_DISCUSSION:

END_SPECTROSCOPIC_DISCUSSION.

SPECTRAL_PURITY: 1_2_3_4_

LIB_SPECTRA_HED: where Wave Range Av_Rs_Pwr Comment

LIB_SPECTRA: splib04a r 2132 0.2-3.0µm 200 g.s.= 18 µm

LIB_SPECTRA: splib05a r ____ 0.2-3.0µm 200 g.s.=

LIB_SPECTRA: splib06a r ____ 1.5-25µm 250 g.s.=