Logs of a real geologist Studies of hematite by Jack and Garrett.

Our expedition

• Turns out that I’m not a astronaut and I never went to Uranus I’m actually a geologists.

• I was in a cardboard box in Baltimore trying to reenter the Earths atmosphere. Now its time to get back to work.

• We searched for the mineral hematite Australia where its commonly found, which is going to be difficult because everything in Australia wants to eat you.

• It’s also commonly found in the lake Superior in the U.S. and in Mexico and South America.

Research

• Hematite is a mineral which means that it is an inorganic solid, just like Vinny Pantuso after upsetting the Don is about to become an inorganic solid.

• Its called hematite because even though its dark grey in color if you were to rub it against a porcelain plate it would scrape off red just like Vinny Pantuso.

Chemical composition

• Hematite’s chemical formula is Fe2O3 iron oxide.• Because of its red its also used as an important ingredient

in dyes, cloth, and jewelry.• It has a hardness (HA) of 5-6.

Mining hematite

• We went underground in order to look for hematite.• As I was lifting one of the large pieces of hematite, I

thought that I saw a spider and threw the large hematite rock at it, when it hit the ground the red streak spattered all around the impact site.

• As it turns out that “spider” was actually Garrett.

Cost of hematite

• If you were to wash all of all the Garrett brains off of it, a 46 ct hematite square cost about $46.00 which is its weight in gold JK! It’s just its weight in regular money.

Hematite

Our birthstones

• I was born in December, so my birthstone is turquoise.

• The late Garrett Ritchie was born in May, so his birthstone is frickin’ emerald. Lucky stiff. (HA)