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Albite from
Foote Lithium Co. Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:Albite
Formula:Na(AlSi3O8)
Comments:The majority of vugs and crystallized seams in the Foote pegmatite contain small but typically nice crystals of albite, often as the backdrop for the more desirable and famous species that crystallized over it such as fluorapatite, fairfieldite, meta-swit
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluorapatite36
Quartz17
- var Smoky Quartz2
Rhodochrosite12
Fairfieldite6
Bavenite5
Muscovite5
Lepidolite4
Pyrite4
Swinefordite3
Beraunite2
Kastningite2
Bikitaite2
Wickmanite2
Parsettensite2
Tetrawickmanite2
Lithiophosphate2
Lithiophilite2
Cacoxenite1
Strunzite1
Whiteite-(CaMnMn)1
Metaswitzerite1
Lithiomarsturite1
Jasonsmithite1
Matulaite1
Siderite1
Rittmannite1
Ferraioloite1
Apatite1
Brannockite1
Eakerite1
Mangangordonite1
Eosphorite1
Stewartite1
Hureaulite1
Laueite1
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Albite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Foote Lithium Co. Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (5 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:339
Long-form Identifier:1:3:339:9
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Albite
2.0km (1.2 miles) Faires Tin Mine (E. C. Faires property; Faires prospect; Atlas shaft), Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Kings Mountain Mica Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA
2.5km (1.6 miles) Martin Marietta Lithium Quarry (Martin Marietta Quarry), Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA
3.3km (2.0 miles) Unnamed Mica Prospect Fl - 058 (MRDS - 10078260), Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA
3.3km (2.1 miles) Moss Kaolin and Mica Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA
5.3km (3.3 miles) Kings Mountain Mine (Catawba Mine), Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA
14.0km (8.7 miles) Big Bess Mine (M. S. Bess Mine; M. M. Carpenter Mine), Gaston County, North Carolina, USA
14.5km (9.0 miles) LCA Mine, Gaston County, North Carolina, USA
14.7km (9.2 miles) Bessemer City operations (Hallman Mine; Hallman-Beam Mine; Bessemer operations; Lithium Mine), Gaston County, North Carolina, USA
15.4km (9.6 miles) Bessemer City Quarry, Gaston County, North Carolina, USA
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