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Bromian Chlorargyrite & Iodargyrite On Coronadite

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Bromian Chlorargyrite & Iodargyrite On Coronadite

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Description
Locality: 
Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 5 × 5.2 cm
Description

Black botryoidal coronadite from the Proprietary Mine, richly studded with yellowish olive bromian chlorargyrite crystals, where the botryoidal coronadite has been broken bright yellow iodargurite crystals line the gaps between the bands of coronadite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bromian Chlorargyrite

Variety Of: 

Chlorargyrite

Formula: 
AgCl
Strunz: 
3.AA.15
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.5

Iodargyrite

Formula: 
AgI
Strunz: 
3.AA.10
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Albarradón Mine, Albarradón, Mun. de Concepción del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico

Coronadite

Formula: 
Pb(Mn4+6Mn3+2)O16
Strunz: 
4.DK.05a
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Horse-Shoe shaft (Horseshoe Mine), Coronado Mine (Coronado Mining Co. property; Arizona Copper Co. group [in part]), Coronado vein, Copper Plate Gulch, Copper Mountain District (Clifton-Morenci District), Shannon Mts, Greenlee Co., Arizona, USA
Earthstones Australia

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