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Fashion hematite jewellry,fashion hematite jewellry necklace

The name hematite comes from the Greek word for blood. The hematite is black, but when powdered or fragmented can take colors ranging from ochre red to jet black. An opaque mineral with a dull lustre, it has been known as "black diamond". Historically it was used in the making and coloration of pottery.

It was also made into a paste from which beads were made and hardened, and appears commonly today as black beads in costume jewelry. It is cut and polished into cabochons for jewelry and ornaments, fashioned into beads for bracelets and necklaces, and carved into ornamental figures. Hematite is rather variable in its appearence - it can be in reddish brown, ocherous masses, dark silvery-grey scaled masses, silvery-grey crystals, and dark-grey masses, to name a few.