Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1919 — The Bloodstone. [ARTICLE]

The Bloodstone.

The bloodstone is a variety of hematite having a finely fibrous structure and a neniform surface. The color varies from dark steel-gray to blood-red. It was extensively employed in ancient times, many of the Babylonian and Egyptian' intaglios being in this material. Now it is much less used, ex cept for rings and as a polish,,for other stones and ipetals. There is als< a variety of quartz having a greenisl base, with small spots of red jasper looking like drops of blood, scattered through' It ‘Tirts kimt of bioodstont is blho called heliotrope.