Chief source of lead?

[flossie1999]

What is the grey mineral that is the chief source of lead? Any ideas?

Flossie

[Clanad]

Galena... it happens to be the Official State Mineral of the State of Missouri in the US...

[flossie1999]

Thanks for that!

[brachiopod]

Wow, you have official state minerals ?!!

So Texas, home of George Bush, would have sillimanite as theirs?

So which state has got cummingtonite?

;o)

[ursula62]

brachiopod

wouldn't that last one be Arkansas (Clinton's home state)? ;-)

[brachiopod]

I think Arkansas' mineral has got to be 'heterogenite'. 

This oxide of cobalt is also known variously and locally as;

stainerite, boodtit and ************ !!

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Bet you think I'm making this up?

http://www.mindat.org/min-1885.html

Scroll down to 'Other names for heterogenite' section.

[brachiopod]

(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.)