Hematite Palm Stone Red Jasper Basalt built the Giant’s Causeway

Basalt built the Giant’s Causeway

Linalool sits closer to the top of the profile than it does in Salvia apiana

Distinct from the Peruvian Black Copal (Bursera copallifera) - same trade name family

Tree agate - small tumble-polished stones of milky white branched with green

Hematite Palm Stone Red Jasper Basalt built the Giant’s CausewayHematite a mirror bright silver grey with real weight in the palm, iron oxide, the densest stone in the range. Polished to a metallic shine, yet it draws a red brown line. From Brazil, a palm stone. It is the principal ore of iron, and the weight is the tell: lift it and the heft is the first thing the hand notices, the mark of so much iron. Drawn across unglazed porcelain it leaves a red brown line, the rust red that names it, from the Greek haima,