Hematite Palm Stone Clear Quartz and the tears still open

and the tears still open citric and bright on charcoal within minutes

As a single-note stick it is exactly that: warm

Ashta Sugandha Stupa incense from the Kathmandu Valley workshop (the "eight fragrances" blend)

Steam distillation captures the lighter volatile fraction cleanly

coloured by trace iron and manganese)

Hematite Palm Stone Clear Quartz and the tears still openHematite a mirror bright silver grey with real weight in the palm, iron oxide, the densest stone in the range. Polished to a metallic shine, yet it draws a red brown line. From Brazil, a palm stone. It is the principal ore of iron, and the weight is the tell: lift it and the heft is the first thing the hand notices, the mark of so much iron. Drawn across unglazed porcelain it leaves a red brown line, the rust red that names it, from the Greek haima,