Brand: Urancia

Color: Black

Features:

• Hematite Magnet
• Magnetite Loadstone for Ring, Locket
• Also Known as Loadstone

model number: AB738

Part Number: AB738

Details: Description

The magnetic properties of lodestone, also known as magnetite, were documented in China more than 2,000 years ago, and Chinese sailors were navigating with lodestone compasses as early as 900 years ago. Ancient uses of Magnetism Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Ancient China Uses of Lodestone Magnetite.Other Uses Ancient Greece Ancient Egypt Ancient China Compass Shepherd Magnes (Greece) . The first mention of lodestone was in China in 2500 BC.