Locality type: Open-Cast Mine Classification Species: Albite Formula: Na(AlSi3 O8 ) 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: Fluorapatite 36 Quartz 17 - var Smoky Quartz 2 Rhodochrosite 12 Fairfieldite 6 Bavenite 5 Muscovite 5 Lepidolite 4 Pyrite 4 Swinefordite 3 Beraunite 2 Kastningite 2 Bikitaite 2 Wickmanite 2 Parsettensite 2 Tetrawickmanite 2 Lithiophosphate 2 Lithiophilite 2 Cacoxenite 1 Strunzite 1 Whiteite-(CaMnMn) 1 Metaswitzerite 1 Lithiomarsturite 1 Jasonsmithite 1 Matulaite 1 Siderite 1 Rittmannite 1 Ferraioloite 1 Apatite 1 Brannockite 1 Eakerite 1 Mangangordonite 1 Eosphorite 1 Stewartite 1 Hureaulite 1 Laueite 1 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 Gallery View 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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Foote Lithium Co. Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA