Hematite can be metallic or nonmetallic, and is micaceous and foliated.  It can be identified by its red streak.  Its color is steel-grey to black in crystals, dull to bright red in fine grained material.  It has a moh's hardness of 5-6.  

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
7605 (none) (none) (none) Weight Conoid. hematite. Dark green. Type IV.
7896 (none) (none) B16883 Cylinder seal. hematite. Black. Hero wearing conical cap and short garment which only falls to the knees, and carrying a bird? in his left hand approaches a standing deity wearing high headdress and flounced kaunakes skirt. Behind the hero, naked Ishtar.
7922 (none) (none) (none) Weight Lentoid. hematite. Type II.
8439 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. 29 beads in all 10 barrel carnelian, 4 silver double conoids the rest lapis double conoids. Found in ground in following order: 1 silver 2 lapis 1 carnelian 1 hematite?? 1 carnelian 1 silver 1 large lapis 1 silver 3 lapis 1 carnelian 4 lapis 1 carnelian 1 silver 1 carnelian 2 lapis 1 carnelian 1 silver 1 carnelian ETC Carnelian barrel beads, silver and lapis double conoids.
8466A (none) (none) (none) [A-E] 5 weights, [A-D] 4 hematite, [E] 1 silver lentoid. hematite - 1 lentoid, 1 conoid, 1 ovoid, 1 roughly cylindrical, slightly bigger at base than at top. weights: Types I, II, III, IV.
8466B (none) (none) B17615 [A-E] 5 weights, [A-D] 4 hematite, [E] 1 silver lentoid. hematite - 1 lentoid, 1 conoid, 1 ovoid, 1 roughly cylindrical, slightly bigger at base than at top. weights: Types I, II, III, IV.
8466C (none) (none) (none) [A-E] 5 weights, [A-D] 4 hematite, [E] 1 silver lentoid. hematite - 1 lentoid, 1 conoid, 1 ovoid, 1 roughly cylindrical, slightly bigger at base than at top. weights: Types I, II, III, IV.
8644 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Bugles of lapis (and hematite?). Silver beads and a few carnelian rings. For order see field notes.
9144 (none) (none) (none) Beads very small lapis and gold balls, with them a pendant of artificial cat's eye (hematite(?) & shell) set in copper. [drawing of cat's eye]
9291 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Haematite Gilgamesh & Eabani, & tree
9292 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Black haematite Introduction scene with 1 - seated and 3 - standing figures. A column of inscription has been intentionally effaced
9538A (none) (none) B16911A 3 Haematite Weights [A-C] Lentoid shaped. Probably goldsmiths weights Type II Published in Vol. II The Royal Cemetery
9586 (none) (none) B16947 Cylinder Seal Haematite Black Seated god greeting 2 other divinities who approach bearing offerings? All wearing the horned headdress. Behind throne a palm tree? Attribute: Cresent moon.
9618 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Black hematite Spread eagle, 2 antelopes, small bird, crescent moon
9740 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal Haematite Black 2 bearded bulls rampant, back to back. Each is attacked by a hero. Behind one hero, who appears to be wearing a forked tiara, is a rampant lion. This hero apparently wears a short-skirt, the second is bearded and naked. Beyond a rampant bull and rampant gazelle accosting one another; behind the gazelle a small naked figure--possibly a devil?
9875 (none) (none) (none) 13 Carnelian ring beads. Coarsely cut, chipped circumference after the manner of the earliest beads from Al Obaid. 1 very roughly cut flattened double conoid; polished black hematite. Date: before 3500 BC
11959 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. hematite (broken)
12036 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder hematite. Intended for a seal but left uncut and only one end bored.
12712A (none) (none) (none) [A-G] 7 hematite weights. [A-B] 2 pebble one of reddish hematite. [C] 1 bell shaped (Type XIII), also [D] ovoid (Type I), [E] conoid (Type IV), [F] hemispherical (Type XIV), [G] lentoid (Type II).
13059 30-12-524 (none) (none) Hematite weight. Flat on one side, convex on the other. Type ? XIV.
13504 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight. Hematite. Plain, without head. Black. Type VI.
13517 31-16-509 (none) (none) Hematite weight. Lentoid. Type II.
13518 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight. Hematite. Type VI. [drawing 1:1]
13523 31-17-60 (none) (none) Necklace. Lapis double conoids. Carnelian ring beads. Burnt hematite(?) ring beads. Lapis ball beads. 2 lapis frog amulets. String in original order, cf. Field note.
14333 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. 3 strings of beads; lapis barrels; carnelian rings; hematite ring beads; lapis cylindricals. For approximate order see Field Note. Also 2 lapis pendants thus: [drawing 1:1]