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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Hematite

8. 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)