Lepidolite
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Lepidolite is the common name for a lilac-gray or rose-colored series of minerals in the mica group. The mineralogical name for this series is the polylithionite-trilithionite series. Lepidolite has a
Boromuscovite Lepidolite ch 38a
Yellow lepidolite from Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Size: 6.1 x 4.9 x 3.1 cm
Lavender lepidolite "books" from Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande District, San Diego County, California, US. Size: 4.8 x 3.9 x 3.5 cm
Lepidolite, Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil (size 2.4 x 2.1 x 0.7 cm)
Spodumene
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Spodumene is a pyroxene mineral consisting of lithium aluminium inosilicate, LiAl2, and is a commercially important source of lithium. It occurs as colorless to yellowish, purplish, or lilac kunzite,
Lepidolite
…of the alkali metal rubidium, which substitutes (as in all minerals) for potassium. Lepidolite is found with other lithium-bearing minerals, such as spodumene, in pegmatite bodies. It has also been found in high-temperature quartz veins, greisens and granite. Lepidolite is a phyllosilicate mineral and a member…
Walnut Hill Pegmatite Prospect, Huntington, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, U.S. (size: 14.2 × 9.2 × 3.0 cm)
An almost colorless kunzite crystal (upper left), a cut pale pink kunzite (upper right), and a greenish hiddenite crystal (below) (unknown scale)
Kunzite, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
Hiddenite from Araçuaí, Minas Gerais, Brazil