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LCA Mine (Lithium Corporation of America Mine), Bessemer City, Gaston Co., North Carolina, USA

Arsenopyrite
LCA Mine, Bessemer City, Gaston Co., North Carolina, USA

Photo: 2002, Keith Wood
Latitude: 35°17'N
Longitude: 81°17'W
Located NW of Bessemer City, about 6 miles northeast of the Foote mine. A pegmatite mined for lithium until the late 1990's.

Refs.: (in part):
Rocks & Min.: 60:78 & 89.

Mineral List

Aegirine
Albite
Almandine
Arsenopyrite
Autunite
Bavenite
Beraunite
Bertrandite
Beryl
Biotite
Brannockite ?
Calcite
Cassiterite
Chalcopyrite
Clinochlore
Columbite-(Fe)
Dickinsonite-(KMnNa)
Earlshannonite ?
Eosphorite
Fairfieldite
Fluorapatite
var: Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite
Frondelite
Herderite
Heterosite
Hydroxylherderite
Kastningite
'K Feldspar'
Laueite
Magnesiohornblende
Matulaite
Messelite
Muscovite
Oxiberaunite
Paravauxite
Phosphosiderite
Pyrite
Quartz
Rhodochrosite
Rockbridgeite
Schorl
Sigloite ?
Spessartine
Spodumene
Strengite
Strunzite
Tantalite-(Fe)
Vivianite
Zircon


49 entries listed. 44 valid minerals. 1 erroneous literature entry.

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