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Chief source of lead?
What is the grey mineral that is the chief source of lead? Any ideas?
Flossie
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(Mon 19:53 10/Jan/05)
Galena... it happens to be the Official State Mineral of the State of Missouri in the US... |
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(Mon 22:44 10/Jan/05)
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Thanks for that!
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(Mon 22:50 10/Jan/05)
Wow, you have official state minerals ?!! So Texas, home of George Bush, would have sillimanite as theirs? So which state has got cummingtonite? ;o) |
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(Thu 12:29 13/Jan/05)
brachiopod wouldn't that last one be Arkansas (Clinton's home state)? ;-) |
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(Thu 14:54 13/Jan/05)
I think Arkansas' mineral has got to be 'heterogenite'. This oxide of cobalt is also known variously and locally as; stainerite, boodtit and ************ !! - Bet you think I'm making this up? http://www.mindat.org/min-1885.html Scroll down to 'Other names for heterogenite' section. |
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(Thu 15:03 13/Jan/05) (one of tha variant names has been edited by AB, but it was named after the place it was mined, Lubumbashi, in the DR of Congo. And many mineral names end in -ite.) |
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