Spodumene is a pyroxene mineral consisting of lithium aluminium inosilicate, LiAl(SiO3)2, and is a commercially important source of lithium. It occurs...

Western Australia. Most Australian lithium is produced from hard-rock spodumene, in contrast to other major producers like Argentina, Chile and China...

within pegmatites. These include crystals of microcline, quartz, mica, spodumene, beryl, and tourmaline. Some individual crystals are over 10 m (33 ft)...

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...

temperatures around 1300 °C. Lithium is extracted from primarily two sources: spodumene in pegmatite deposits, and lithium salts in underground brine pools. About...

lithium-bearing pegmatites with spodumene, lepidolite, and tourmaline. Petalite is an important ore of lithium, and is converted to spodumene and quartz by heating...

alternative route involves the intermediacy of lithium sulfate: α-spodumene → β-spodumene β-spodumene + CaO → Li2O + ... Li2O + H2SO4 → Li2SO4 + H2O Li2SO4 + 2...

rubidium. Lepidolite is found with other lithium-bearing minerals, such as spodumene, in pegmatite bodies. It has also been found in high-temperature quartz...

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...

producing approximately 1.95 million tonnes (4.3 billion pounds) of lithium spodumene annually. The mine is 250 kilometres (160 miles) south of Perth and 90...

Corundum (high): purple / orange Hypersthene (strong): purple / orange Spodumene (Kunzite) (strong): purple / clear / pink Tourmaline (strong): pale purple...

of chalcedony) Hessonite (variety of grossular) Hiddenite (variety of spodumene) Hyalite (variety of opal) Hyalophane (synonym of jaloallofane) Hypersthene...

in 1824, and was named by him soda-spodumene (Natron-spodumen), because of its resemblance in appearance to spodumene. Perfectly colorless and transparent...

Australia, Canada and Argentina. It owned and operated the Mt Cattlin spodumene-tantalite mine at Ravensthorpe, Western Australia. The mine operated between...

metamorphic rocks and veins in association with lepidolite, microcline, and spodumene in granite pegmatites; with andalusite and biotite in schist; and with...

content. For example, the Li2O content of the principal lithium mineral spodumene (LiAlSi2O6) is 8.03%. Lithium oxide forms along with small amounts of...

Petedunnite, Ca(Zn,Mn2+,Mg,Fe2+)Si2O6 Pigeonite, (Ca,Mg,Fe)(Mg,Fe)Si2O6 Spodumene, LiAl(SiO3)2 Orthopyroxenes (orthorhombic) Enstatite, Mg2Si2O6 Bronzite...

the production of lithium worldwide. World production of lithium via spodumene was around 80,000 metric tonnes per annum in 2018, primarily from the...

pyroxene series Jadeite – NaAlSi2O6 Aegirine (or acmite) – NaFeIIISi2O6 Spodumene – LiAlSi2O6 Pyroxferroite - (Fe,Ca)SiO3 Pyroxenoid group Wollastonite...

Sogdianite Sperrylite Spessartite Sphalerite Spinel Ceylonite (var.) Spodumene Hiddenite (var.) Kunzite (var.) Triphane (var.) Spurrite Staurolite Stibiotantalite...

occurs as granular to massive in form and may pseudomorphically replace spodumene. It has a brittle to conchoidal fracture and indistinct cleavage. It is...

there are two cleavage planes in a crystal that intersect at 90 degrees. Spodumene exhibits prismatic cleavage. Non-Prismatic cleavage occurs when there...

pegmatites, high-temperature tin veins, and greisens. Amblygonite occurs with spodumene, apatite, lepidolite, tourmaline, and other lithium-bearing minerals in...

Gwalia was a Western Australian mining company that mined gold, tantalum, spodumene, lithium and tin. It was Australia's third-largest gold producer and controlled...

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...

in Australia, the world's largest producer of lithium, through spodumene ores. Spodumene ores and other lithium-bearing hard-rock deposits are far less...

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...

producing high-quality spodumene concentrate that is qualified in the lithium supply chain globally. Mt Cattlin is a low-cost spodumene producer utilising...

A faceted spodumene...

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...