Matter
Name
Pigment Huy (PIG_0172_A), oolitic hematite
Family
mineral
Level
from laboratory repository
Origins
natural terrestrial
Provider
Pigmenthothèque - EDYTEM
Provider reference code
Huy – PIG_0172_A (2016-021) [Huy Gare]
Local reference code
PIG_0172_A_Huy
Body name
Earth
Terrain type
mineral surface
Place
Huy, Liège province , Wallonia , Belgium

Coordinates

System
WGS84
Position type
point
Geolocation
Point Latitude Longitude Altitude
#1 50.522° 5.222°
Comments
road cut near the train station
Preparation
raw
Storage condition
room temperature and conditions
Phase type
solid
Component type (group)
sedimentary rock (iron-sediment or ironstone)
Comments
Shale and shists with oolitic hematite - Era: Paleozoic, Devonian, Famennian, Hodimont (Belgium) formation
Shape
Irregular equant shaped red-bordeaux block with faces with patina and rough side faces (oolithic)
Texture
compact coarse grained
Type of porosity
without pores
Porosity
0.0e+00
Texture
compact
Grain compacity
1.0
Size distribution
wide and heterogeneous distribution
Comments
oolithic texture
Oxides
Formula $SiO_{2}$ $Al_{2}O_{3}$ $Fe_{2}O_{3}$ $MnO$ $MgO$ $CaO$ $Na_{2}O$ $K_{2}O$ $TiO_{2}$ $P_{2}O_{5}$
Mass fraction (%) 7.32 3.02 41.16 0.24 0.65 24.42 0.03 0.64 0.11 0.26
Oxides comments
Contain Mg (0.65% in oxide) and small impurity of Mn, Na, K, Ti, P (1.28% in oxides), fire loss: 21.06%
Number
3
Mode of mixing
heterogeneous mixing
Materials
  Name Arrangement Mass (g) Mass fraction Abundance comments
Ferruginous cement Ferruginous cement between ferruginous coated grains
Carbonaceous cements Carbonaceous cement between ferruginous coated grains
Ferruginous coated grains Ferruginous coated grains cemented by ferruginous and carbonaceous cements)