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    Spodumene is a pyroxene mineral consisting of lithium aluminium inosilicate, LiAl(SiO3)2, and is a commercially important source of lithium. It occurs...
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    lithium-bearing pegmatites with spodumene, lepidolite, and tourmaline. Petalite is an important ore of lithium, and is converted to spodumene and quartz by heating...
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    pale-to-emerald green variety of spodumene that is sometimes used as a gemstone. The first specimens of the hiddenite variety of spodumene were recovered circa 1879...
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    Western Australia. Most Australian lithium is produced from hard-rock spodumene, in contrast to other major producers like Argentina, Chile and China...
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    temperatures around 1300 °C. Lithium is extracted from primarily two sources: spodumene in pegmatite deposits, and lithium salts in underground brine pools. About...
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    within pegmatites. These include crystals of microcline, quartz, mica, spodumene, beryl, and tourmaline. Some individual crystals are over 10 m (33 ft)...
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  • of chalcedony) Hessonite (variety of grossular) Hiddenite (variety of spodumene) Hyalite (variety of opal) Hyalophane (synonym of jaloallofane) Hypersthene...
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    rubidium. Lepidolite is found with other lithium-bearing minerals, such as spodumene, in pegmatite bodies. It has also been found in high-temperature quartz...
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    alternative route involves the intermediacy of lithium sulfate: α-spodumene → β-spodumene β-spodumene + CaO → Li2O + ... Li2O + H2SO4 → Li2SO4 + H2O Li2SO4 + 2...
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    time mining paused in 1947, the mine had yielded 41 tons of high-grade spodumene, 558 tons of lepidolite ore, nearly 500 pounds of placer tantalite-columbite...
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    in 1824, and was named by him soda-spodumene (Natron-spodumen), because of its resemblance in appearance to spodumene. Perfectly colorless and transparent...
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    metamorphic rocks and veins in association with lepidolite, microcline, and spodumene in granite pegmatites; with andalusite and biotite in schist; and with...
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    pyroxene series Jadeite – NaAlSi2O6 Aegirine (or acmite) – NaFeIIISi2O6 Spodumene – LiAlSi2O6 Pyroxferroite - (Fe,Ca)SiO3 Pyroxenoid group Wollastonite...
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    there are two cleavage planes in a crystal that intersect at 90 degrees. Spodumene exhibits prismatic cleavage. Non-Prismatic cleavage occurs when there...
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    content. For example, the Li2O content of the principal lithium mineral spodumene (LiAlSi2O6) is 8.03%. Lithium oxide forms along with small amounts of...
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    largest lithium spodumene hard-rock deposit in the world. The deposit located in Manono, DRC, may hold up to 1.5 billion tons of lithium spodumene hard-rock...
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    95 million tonnes (2.15 million short tons; 1.92 million long tons) of lithium spodumene annually. The mine is 250 kilometres (160 miles) south of Perth and 90...
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  • Sogdianite Sperrylite Spessartite Sphalerite Spinel Ceylonite (var.) Spodumene Hiddenite (var.) Kunzite (var.) Triphane (var.) Spurrite Staurolite Stibiotantalite...
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    Corundum (high): purple / orange Hypersthene (strong): purple / orange Spodumene (Kunzite) (strong): purple / clear / pink Tourmaline (strong): pale purple...
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  • Australia, Canada and Argentina. It owned and operated the Mt Cattlin spodumene-tantalite mine at Ravensthorpe, Western Australia. The mine operated between...
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  • the production of lithium worldwide. World production of lithium via spodumene was around 80,000 metric tonnes per annum in 2018, primarily from the...
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  • electric equipment. The mine expects to process the lithium ore into 6% spodumene. It signed a memorandum of understanding to supply Korean battery maker...
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  • The Mt Cattlin mine is a spodumene-tantalite mine 2.2 kilometres (1.4 mi) north of Ravensthorpe, Western Australia. In 2019 Mt Cattlin had a reserve of...
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    occurs as granular to massive in form and may pseudomorphically replace spodumene. It has a brittle to conchoidal fracture and indistinct cleavage. It is...
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  • The Tanco Mining Company. The mine is an active producer of caesium, tantalum and spodumene. List of lakes of Manitoba Booster Lake Website v t e v t e...
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    A faceted spodumene...
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    to supply "spodumene concentrate from Piedmont's North Carolina mineral deposit". In 2022, Tesla contracted for 110,000 tonnes of spodumene concentrate...
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  • is known to be the largest lithium spodumene hard rock deposit in the world, larger than the Greenbushes spodumene hard rock deposit in Western Australia...
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    in Australia, the world's largest producer of lithium, through spodumene ores. Spodumene ores and other lithium-bearing hard-rock deposits are far less...
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  • rock formation. The pegmatites at the deposits comprise lithium-bearing spodumene, quartz, albite, microcline as well as mica" with a consistent lithium...
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