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This specimen of Coronadinite is from the Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, Australia. This specimen weighs 20g and measures 4cm x 2cm x 1cm.

The Proprietary mine is actually the original mine at Broken Hill and the birthplace of BHP, (Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited). In 1885, when it began mining the massive ore body containing the world’s richest source of silver, lead and zinc. The “Syndicate of Seven” – the men from Mt Gipps Station – put the city on the map when they discovered ore on an isolated ‘broken hill’ in 1883. That same ore body became the largest single source of Silver, Lead and Zinc ore ever discovered on earth, generating over $100 billion in wealth.

Coronadite:-

Coronadite is the Lead endmember the Hollandite group, a family of tectomanganates with a 2 × 2 tunnel structure. The mineral was named after Francisco Vasquez de Coronado who was an explorer of southwest US. The name was made up by Waldemar Lindgren in 1905.

Coronadite is an oxide of Manganese and Lead, sometimes slightly hydrated, frequently showing low iron and aluminium contents. It is a secondary mineral which forms in the upper oxidised part of lead and manganese deposits, perhaps by recrystallization of a lead-bearing psilomelane.

Its colour is light grey to black, with a semi-metallic to dull lustre and generally grows in stalactites or botryoidal formations.