67.—Specular Iron Ore.
Occurs crystallized and in large masses, high metallic lustre; color steel-gray or iron-black; brittle; opaque except when very thin; the powder when very fine and rubbed on white paper shows red; the powder dissolves slowly in muriatic acid; by a strong heat yields a black mass which attracts the needle; gravity 5.
Value.—Yields from fifty to seventy per cent. of iron.
Localities.—Found in granite regions. Marquette, Mich.; Pilot Knob and Iron Mountains, Mo.; St. Lawrence County, N. Y.; Bartlett, Lisbon and Franconia, N. H.; Chittenden and Weathersfield, Vt.; Sauk County, Wis.