IRON                                                           

Hematite  Fe₂O₃ 

• Colour : black with red tinge
• Streak : red-brown
• Lustre : metallic-dull
• Crystal form : reniform-massive-tabular-rose
• Crystal system : trigonal
• Crystal hardness : 6
• Cleavage : none
• Fracture : conchoidal
• Associated minerals : siderite, limonite, magnetite, pyrite, quartz

The element iron (Fe) is one of the most abundant on earth, but it does not occur in nature in useful metallic form.   Iron ore is the term applied to a natural iron-bearing mineral in which the content of iron is sufficient to be commercially usable.  Metallic iron, from which steel is derived, must be extracted from iron ore.  By definition, steel is a combination of iron with a small amount of carbon.

A.P.LOW

A.P. Low (1861-1942) was one of North America's most significant, but possibly least known, explorers. He criss-crossed the Labrador Peninsula from James Bay to Ungava, and to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, through some of the most rugged country on the continent, at that time considered one of the largest "unknown" areas in the world. To this day, no human has travelled more in this region, or given more knowledge of its geology, peoples, wildlife, geography and vegetation to the scientific community and to the world at large

Expedition

Sept Iles

I.O.C.     I.O.C.C.

Q.C.M.

--Jim Redmond