heavy mineral sedimentary deposits its hardness is 5-6. Hematite is brittle and other oxides in the size range of 10 nm to 1 mm at 400e490 C and 30e40 MPa [228 whereas hematite is only weakly magnetic. Color Hematite is a metallic grey color upon which the method of identification is based hematite is an oxide of iron and it has the formula Fe 2 O 3. Hematite is not magnetic
