Hematite needle ore (old and rare)

Item Description

Mineral specimens from this extinct, over 100 years old, iron mine are very seldom on the market. This is a superb and scultpural large specimen of appropriately called hematite "needle ore". This striking, rust-red, ribbed piece is doubly terminated and pristine. You would think its from the famous iron mines of Northern England, but its not. Valued of such an exceptional rarity? If English, it would be $1000 or more already.