# Hematite Grounding Tumbles

> Three small, iron-dark hematite tumbles from Brazil, heavy as hardware and polished to a near-mirror sheen, for a pocket on an unsteady day or the corner of your desk.

Price: 13.00 USD · in stock

## About
Close your hand around one and it is heavier than it has any right to be, dense and cool, more like a piece of hardware than a stone. Hematite is rich in iron oxide, and the polish brings up a metallic, almost mirror-like sheen on its high points. Yet a scratch on the underside shows a deep red-brown streak, the color that gave the stone its name, from the Greek word for blood.That red has a long history. Ground to powder, the same mineral served as ochre pigment in some of the oldest paintings made by human hands, and Roman soldiers are said to have rubbed hematite across their skin before battle, in the old belief that it calmed fear and steadied the body.These three were cut from Brazilian hematite, from material mined chiefly for industrial iron, set aside and polished instead of going to the furnace. Nothing is treated or dyed: the color and shine are the mineral's own.DetailsThree polished hematite tumblesOrigin: BrazilUntreated and undyedHow to useKeep one in each pocket on a day that feels unsteady, or set all three together at the base of your workspace as a kind of quiet ballast.Plain, heavy and without pretense: bring them home.