Hematite Crystal Guide: meaning, origin & properties
Learn what Hematite is, where ours comes from, traditional associations across cultures, and how to identify a real specimen, in our complete Hematite Crystal Guide.
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Sourced through a regional cooperative or community-based workshop. Processing and economic benefit stay local, which means more of the value reaches the people doing the work.
Read our Sourcing Standards →Hematite is heavy, metallic, and mirror-silver when polished. It's iron ore, so the weight makes sense. Run one along a piece of unglazed ceramic and it leaves a rust-red streak, which is where the name comes from.
Hand-selected from Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Hematite takes its name from the Greek haima, meaning blood, because of the red streak it leaves when rubbed on unglazed ceramic.
Hematite is traditionally a stone for staying connected to your body and the moment, a sense of groundedness when things feel uncertain, and coming back to the task in front of you. It's traditionally linked to the root chakra. If that resonates, keep a piece in your pocket during the day for a steadying presence. Let it become part of your own quiet routine.
These are traditional associations drawn from historical practice. This stone is not a substitute for medical or mental health care.
A starting place for your own quiet practice.