"Haematite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the spots removed with the Spanish haematite or with aqua fortis or with ... Removes the black hair on a white horse with the singeing iron. ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci
... the streams over which we passed on our way were quite red in colour, and the puddles on the muddy roads were just like dark red paint, indicating the presence of iron ore. We saw several miners, who told us that they got the ore (known as haematite, or iron oxide) at a depth of from 90 to 100 yards, working by candle-light, and that they received about 2s. 6d. per ton as the product of their labour. The ore, it seemed, filled up large cavities in the mountain limestone. It was about one o'clock by the time ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor |
