^72 METALS. 85, Ferrum. 



Found in the mines of Denmark, Sivedetty Norwcayy Laplandi 

 Siberia, Bohemia, an^ Peru, in maff y, plates, giairs, or 8-* 

 fided crvftab: colour generallv iron-hlack, hrown, fleeU 

 grey, or bluifh: it is hard, bri'tle, with commonly a little 

 Jultre, and breaks into indr.terminace obtufangled fragments: 

 it often contains above 70 per cent, of iron. 



granulare* Magnetic, of a granular texture and cornmon form. 

 Magnes granularis. Wall /y/i. 2. /. 235. «. 3. b. 

 Magnetic iron ftone. SchmeiJJer miner 2. f. 89. 



Found in the iron mines of Sax^eiien, and refembles the load^ 

 ftone except in itj texture. 



firosum. Magnetic, of a fibrous texture and common form. 

 Karjien LeJI:e mineral, i. p. 442. 



Fibrous magnetic iron ftone. Kirivan miner. 2 p. 160. 

 Fibrous magnetic iron ftone. Schmeijfer min. 2. p. 90. 



Found in Siveden, of a colour between fteel grey and bluifh^ 

 grey, with a little luftre, opake, fofr, brittle, breaking into 

 indeterminate snd not very obtufangled fragments : it gives 

 a dark bluifh ftreak, and confifts of fine ftraight fafcicled 

 ii' res. 



squamosum. Magnetic, of a lamellar texture and common form. 

 Karden Lejke tnineral. \, p. 446. 

 Danz chem annal. 1 785, 2 p. 426 

 Limellaied magnetic iron ftone. Schmeijfer 2, p, 89. 



Found in the mines of Norniuayj^ Siberia, and RuJJia, folid, 

 ftiining, of an iron black colour, and giving a reddifli 

 ftreatt : it confifts of thick ftraight piates. 



suhtetra- Magnetic, black, in the form of cryflals. 



earum* Found in the mines of Nor^way and Saxony, generally in a ma- 



trix of gneifs and accompanying copper pyrites : its cryftals 

 are generally double 4-fided pyramids, or 4 lided obliquan- 

 gled prifms, or in 6-ficled wedge-likc figures, one end ter- 

 minating in an acicular point, the other in an irregular 8^- 

 iided pyramid. 



hasaititmi. Magnetic, brownifh-red, formed of {lender columns ad- 

 hering to each other and which are generally in- 

 curved. 



Hacquet fchr* berl. natur, 4. p. l 3. t. 3. /", I, 2. 



Danz. chem. annal, 1785. 2. p. 424. 



Columnar iron ore. Kirivan miner. 2./. 176. 



Columnar iron ore. Thomjbn chem* 4. />. 60, 



