Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

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Mineral List:

Actinolite ☐Ca   2 (Mg,Fe 2+   )   5 (Si   8 O   22 )(OH)   2 Habit: Splintery prismatic to blocky. Colour: Dark green, grey-green. Fluorescence: none Description: See further under holmquistite. Actinolite is the amphibole other than holmquistite likely to be encountered at Foote. It too is characteristic of contact-zone areas but not as sharply and dramatically as the holmquistite. The actinolite makes fatter spl Reference: [Rocks and Minerals, July-August, 1978.] Albite Na[AlSi   3 O   8 ] Description: 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 Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Albite var: Oligoclase (Na,Ca)[Al(Si,Al)Si   2 O   8 ] Reference: [U.S. Geological Survey, 2005, Mineral Resources Data System: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia.] Almandine Fe 2+ 3 Al   2 [SiO   4 ]   3 Habit: Dodecahedrons. Colour: Brick red, brown from weathering. Fluorescence: none Description: Most frequently encountered in the contact zone. Most specimens retained are uninspiring micros. Reference: [Collections of Jason Smith, Steve Adams, Roger Barnett and others.] Altaite PbTe Reference: [rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/altaite.pdf] Amblygonite LiAl[(F,OH)|PO   4 ] Reference: [Kings Mountain Belt, Carolina Geological Society, Fieldtrip Oct 13 -15 ,1956, Thomas L. Kesler] Analcime Na   2 [Al   2 Si   4 O   12 ] · 2H   2 O Habit: Trapezohedrons. Colour: colorless Description: Colorless xls found rarely on fractures in holmquistite. Reference: [Tschernich, R. (1992): Zeolites of the World, 68] Apatite-(CaF) Ca   5 [F|(PO   4 )   3 ] Habit: Diverse. Euhedral to anhedral, equant, tabular, prismatic, etc. Colour: Purple, lavender, sky blue, yellow, brown, mauve, pink, aqua, etc. Reference: [Jack Eaker collection.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © JBS 2008 Apatite-(CaF) var: Carbonate-rich Apatite-(CaF) Ca   5 [(F,O)|(PO   4 ,CO   3 )   3 ] Reference: [] Apatite-(CaOH) var: Carbonate-rich Apatite-(CaOH) Ca   5 [(OH,O)|(PO   4 ,CO   3 )   3 ] Habit: Opaque, white hexagons in the oxidized zone. Colour: white, color-zoned colorless and white Description: Stubby, opaque white xls with beraunite, eosphorite, and etched fluorapatite in the oxidized zone. Reference: [] Apophyllite-(KF) KCa   4 [(F,OH)|Si   8 O   20 ] · 8H   2 O Description: Occurs in lithia pegmatite. Reference: [Rocks & Minerals: 60: 65, 76-83.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © Karl Volkman03/05 Arsenopyrite FeAsS - (Fe   0.90 Co   0.10 )AsS Habit: Tiny prisms. Colour: lead-gray Description: Tiny prisms with pyrite, cassiterite, and parsettensite in cavities in albite. Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2008 JBS Autunite Ca(UO   2 )   2 (PO   4 )   2 ·11H   2 O Habit: Tabular, flattened tetragonal plates. Colour: Neon-green to yellow. Description: Very nice, transparent xls in highly oxidized cavitites. Reference: [Rocks and Minerals, May-June, 2005] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2004 JBS Axinite-(Fe) Ca   2 Fe 2+   Al   2 [OH|BSi   4 O   15 ] Reference: [] Azurite Cu   3 [OH|CO   3 ]   2 Reference: [J.Wright Horton,Jr.,and Victor A.Zullo,1991,The Geology of the Carolinas,pg # 333] Baryte BaSO   4 Reference: [U.S. Geological Survey, 2005, Mineral Resources Data System: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia.] Bassetite Fe 2+   (UO   2 )   2 [PO   4 ]   2 · 8H   2 O Habit: tabular Colour: pale yellow Fluorescence: no Description: Very rare occurence as the slices of "bread" on autunite "sandwiches" and as single, tiny tabular xls that do not fluoresce associated with rockbridgeite, strengite, and other iron-rich phosphates. Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Bavenite Ca   4 Be   2 Al   2 Si   9 O   26 (OH)   2 Habit: Prismatic, striated prisms and curved accicular needles. Colour: Colorless, white. Description: Occurs in almost every paragenesis as bladed, sharp crystals or bowtie groups and accicular bundles of curved crystals. Reference: [Jan H.Bernard and Jaroslav Hyrsl,2004, Minerals and their Localities, pg # 67] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Beraunite Fe 2+   Fe 3+ 5 [(OH)   5 |(PO   4 )   4 ] · 4H   2 O Habit: Accicular, in bundles with radial arrangement or occasionaly as sharp singles. Colour: bright red, orange, yellow, dark green, light brown Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Bermanite Mn 2+   (H   2 O)   4 [Mn 3+ 2 (OH)   2 (PO   4 )   2 ] Habit: Tabular Colour: bright, transparent brownish red Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Bertrandite Be   4 [(OH)   2 |Si   2 O   7 ] Colour: Colorless Description: Usually slender prismatic blades. Less common are thin tabular plates, typically in bundles like a file drawer in dis-array. The lack of fluorescence would distinguish such crystals from brannockite. Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2004 JBS Beryl Be   3 Al   2 Si   6 O   18 Habit: Crystals faces rare, incomplete. Usually embedded grains. Colour: Majority is white (and overlooked). Emerald is known. Also pale green, pale blue. Fluorescence: none Description: Quote from ref.: The beryl in the pegmatites is white to pale green or pale blue; white beryl predominates. The beryl grains range in diameter from 0.001 inch to as much as 2 inches; most are very small, few measuring more than 0.1 inch... The fine-grai Reference: [U.S. Dept. Interior Geol. Survey Circ. 309 "Beryllium Resources of the Tin-Spodumene Belt, NC", 1954/1959, by W.R. Griffitts] Bikitaite LiAlSi   2 O   6 ·H   2 O Habit: Long tabular prismatic blades. Colour: Colorless Description: Generally conceded to be the world's finest locality for the species. Reference: [Mineralogical Record: 1: 92.; Am Min 54 (1969), 1467-1469] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2004 JBS Biotite Reference: [] Birnessite (Na,Ca)   0.5 (Mn 4+   ,Mn 3+   )   2 O   4 · 1.5H   2 O Habit: Botryoidal. Dendritic. Colour: black, dark brown Description: Botryoidal clots or dendritic groups in the oxidized zone with phosphates. Pulverant. Reference: [] Bismutite (BiO)   2 CO   3 Reference: [U.S. Geological Survey, 2005, Mineral Resources Data System: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia.] Bityite CaLiAl   2 [(OH)   2 |BeAlSi   2 O   10 ] Habit: Tiny rosettes of hexagons. Colour: Beige to tannish-yellow. Description: A very rare mineral only found in the lithiomarsturite association with braonnockite, tetrawickmanite, Sn bearing titanite and others. Very few specimens known. Reference: [Jan H.Bernard and Jaroslav Hyrsl,2004,Minerals and their Localities, pg # 85] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2008 JBS Bornite Cu   5 FeS   4 Habit: no distinct crystals observed. Colour: bronze with tarnish. Fluorescence: none Description: Usually as small embedded grains. Reference: [Jason Smith collection.] Boulangerite Pb   5 Sb   4 S   11 Reference: [John E.Callahan,James R.Craig,Todd N.Solberg,Telluride Mineralization of the Southeasrern United States,Southeastern Geology V.35,No.3,Sep,1995,pg.139-151] Brannockite (TL) (K,Na)Li   3 Sn   2 Si   12 O   30 Type Locality: Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA Habit: Platy. Colour: Colorless. Also white or off-white. Fluorescence: blue or blue-white SW. Important diagnostic tool. Reference: [Rocks & Minerals: 60: 65, 76-83.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © JBS 2006 Cacoxenite Fe 3+ 24 Al[(OH)   12 |O   6 |(PO   4 )   17 ] · 17H   2 O Habit: Tufts or smooth spheres of radially arranged acicular crystals. Colour: Orange, yellow-orange. Description: Tiny smooth spheres to clusters with more distinct crystals. Reference: [Rocks & Minerals: 60(2): 79.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Calcioancylite-(Ce) (Ca,Sr)Ce(CO   3 )   2 OH·H   2 O Habit: blocky xls with polycrystalline coating of monazite-Ce Colour: grey to pale brown, zoned Description: Blocky xls to .7mm with coatings of monazite-Ce on holmquistite with pyrite. Reference: [Mineralogical Record (1987): 18: 203-205.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2004 JBS Calcioferrite Ca   2 Fe 3+ 2 [OH|(PO   4 )   3 ] · 7H   2 O Habit: prismatic to accicular Colour: white to very pale yellow, iron-stained Description: Verified by EDS in 2004. Reference: [JanH.Bernard and Jaroslav Hyrsl,2004,Minerals and their Localities,pg # 106] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © Stephan Wolfsried Calcite CaCO   3 Reference: [] Cassiterite SnO   2 Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © JBS 2007 Chalcanthite CuSO   4 ·5H   2 O Reference: [Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 490; Rocks & Minerals: 60: 83.] Chalcopyrite CuFeS   2 Reference: [] Childrenite (Fe 2+   ,Mn 2+   )Al[(OH)   2 |PO   4 ] · H   2 O Description: [While the eosphorite end-member of the series is definite at Foote, Jason Smith and other Foote authorities remain unconvinced of the presence of this end-member. Smith would know what evidence, if any, exists for its presence - I suggest inquiring of h Reference: [] 'Chlorite Group' Reference: [J.Wright Horton,Jr.,and Victor A.Zullo,1991,The Geology of the Carolinas,pg # 333] Chrysocolla (Cu,Al)   2 H   2 Si   2 O   5 (OH)   4 ·nH   2 O Reference: [J.Wright Horton,Jr.,and Victor A.Zullo,1991,The Geology of the Carolinas,pg # 333] Clinochlore (Mg,Fe 2+   )   5 Al[(OH)   8 |AlSi   3 O   10 ] Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2008 JBS Clinozoisite {Ca   2 }{Al   3 }[O|OH|SiO   4 |Si   2 O   7 ] Reference: [] Collinsite Ca   2 (Mg,Fe 2+   )[PO   4 ]   2 · 2H   2 O Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2004 JBS Columbite-(Fe) FeNb   2 O   6 Habit: Platy prisms, platy to irregular masses. Colour: Black, lustrous or submetallic. Fluorescence: none Description: See further under fersmite. Reference: [Rocks and Minerals, November-December, 1975.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Cookeite LiAl   4 (Si   3 Al)O   10 (OH)   8 Reference: [] Cryptomelane K(Mn 4+   ,Mn 2+   )   8 O   16 Reference: [] Cyrilovite NaFe 3+ 3 [(OH)   2 |PO   4 ]   2 · 2H   2 O Reference: [] Diadochite Fe 3+ 2 (PO   4 )(SO   4 )(OH)·5H   2 O Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Diopside CaMg[Si   2 O   6 ] Reference: [] Dolomite CaMg(CO   3 )   2 Reference: [] Dravite [Na][Mg   3 ][Al   6 ][(OH)   3 |OH|(BO   3 )   3 |Si   6 O   18 ] Reference: [jbs collection] Dufrénite Ca   0.5 Fe 2+   Fe 3+ 5 [(OH)   3 |(PO   4 )   2 ]   2 · 2H   2 O Description: Most of the distinctively green acicular material in the rockbridgeite series at this mine is frondelite, but analysis has turned up occassional examples of dufrenite - very rare at Foote. Reference: [Jason Smith collection, Steve Adams collection] Eakerite (TL) Ca   2 SnAl   2 Si   6 O   18 (OH)   2 ·2H   2 O Type Locality: Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA Description: Only locality for crystals. Topaz-like prismatic crystals up to 5/8ths inch. Reference: [Jan H.Bernard and Jaroslav Hyrsl,2004,Minerals and their Localities,pg #190] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © JBS 2006 Earlshannonite (TL) Mn 2+   Fe 3+ 2 (PO   4 )   2 (OH)   2 ·4H   2 O Type Locality: Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA Habit: prismatic, radiating, "sea-mines" Colour: brown to brownish red to orange-yellow Reference: [Peacor, D. R. et al (1984) Canadian Mineralogist: 22: 471-474.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Eosphorite (Mn 2+   ,Fe 2+   )Al[(OH)   2 |PO   4 ] · H   2 O Reference: [Jan H.Bernard and Jaroslav Hyrsl,2004,Minerals and their Localities,pg #198; Am Min 54 (1969), 1467-1469] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © Dick Dionne Epidote {Ca   2 }{Al   2 Fe 3+   }[O|OH|SiO   4 |Si   2 O   7 ] Reference: [] Eucryptite LiAl[SiO   4 ] Habit: Crystals very rare, usually subhedral colorless. Colour: White or off-white. Fluorescence: Brilliant red SW - diagnostic. Description: One of very few localities with known crystals up to 5mm, some with many faces. Found in thin fractures in altered spodumene. Reference: [Am Min 54 (1969), 1467-1469] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © JBS 2006 Fairfieldite Ca   2 (Mn 2+   ,Fe 2+   )[PO   4 ]   2 · 2H   2 O Habit: Diverse - tabular, prismatic, spheroids, equant, flowers (bladed hemispheres) Colour: Cream, beige, white, pinkish, golden, tan, colorless. Fluorescence: Unobserved. Description: The known diversity, quality and quantity of this species soared after its recognition at the Foote Mine, which remains - although not the type locality - the word's premier locality for fairfieldite. Reference: [Brannock, K.C. (1967) Rocks and Minerals: June: 403-406.; Am Min 54 (1969), 1467-1469] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Ferrisicklerite (Fe 3+   ,LiMn 2+   )[PO   4 ] Reference: [] Fersmite (Ca,Ce,Na)(Nb,Ta,Ti)   2 (O,OH,F)   6 Habit: see comments Colour: dark brown Fluorescence: none Description: "Foote fersmite is clearly epitaxial on columbite. The two species form a mineral "sandwich"...this fersmite is brown and quite resinous while the columbite is typically black and lustrous." - John Sampson White Reference: [Rocks and Minerals, November-December, 1975.] Fluorite CaF   2 Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © JBS 2007 Footemineite (TL) Ca   2 Mn 2+   Mn 2+ 2 Mn 2+ 2 Be   4 (PO   4 )   6 (OH)   4 · 6H   2 O Type Locality: Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA Habit: Prismatic, tapering barrells to 1.7mm in groups to 3mm. Colour: Pale to bright yellow and yellowish-orange. Fluorescence: none Description: Found on dumps. Associated with milarite, rhodochrosite, analcime, fairfieldite, apatite, and eosphorite. This same phase was found in the mid 70s in a similar assemblage with much smaller crystals. Reference: [Atencio, D., Matioli, P.A., Smith, J.B., Chukanov, N.V., Coutinho, J.M.V., Rastsvetaeva, R.K., Möckel, S. (2008): Footemineite, the Mn-analog of atencioite, from the Foote mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, U.S.A., and its relationship with other roscherite-group minerals. American Mineralogist, 93, 1-6.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2006 JBS Frondelite Mn 2+   Fe 3+ 4 [(OH)   5 |(PO   4 )   3 ] Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © Stephan Wolfsried Galena PbS Description: cleavages in fresh pegmatite. very rarely encountered. Reference: [Jason Smith collection, Steve Adams collection] Gold Au Reference: [Rocks & Min.: 60:83; Dana 7:I:206.] Graphite C Reference: [] Grossular Ca   3 Al   2 [SiO   4 ]   3 Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © Karl Volkman04/05 Gypsum Ca[SO   4 ] · 2H   2 O Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © JBS 2007 Helvite Mn 2+ 4 Be   3 [S|(SiO   4 )   3 ] Habit: tetrahedrons Colour: yellow to orange Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Heterosite (Fe 3+   ,Mn 3+   )[PO   4 ] Reference: [] Holmquistite ☐[Li   2 ][Mg   3 Al   2 ][(OH)   2 |Si   8 O   22 ] Description: As blue-grey to lavender-grey fibrous or felted masses, usually with intermixed biotite and chlorite, blanketing the entire pegmatite body at its contact with the schist country rock. While not impressive, this is a good source for samples of the species. Reference: [rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/holmquistite.pdf] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © Charles Creekmur Hureaulite (Mn,Fe)   5 (PO   3 OH)   2 (PO   4 )   2 ·4H   2 O Habit: tabular, rosettes Colour: pale pink to rose and dark red to earthy yellow when oxidized Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Hydromagnesite Mg   5 [(CO   3 )   4 (OH)   2 ] · 4H   2 O Habit: radial aggregates Colour: white Description: Found a whole flat full of the material in august of 2003 in Louis Shrums garage. Verified optically as hydromagnesite. No longer dubious. Jason S. Reference: [] Hydroxylherderite CaBe[(OH,F)|PO   4 ] Description: Occurs in lithia pegmatite. Reference: [Rocks & Minerals: 60: 65, 76-83.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Jahnsite-(CaMnFe) CaMn 2+   Fe 2+ 2 Fe 3+ 2 (PO   4 )   4 (OH)   2 · 8H   2 O Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2008 JBS Jahnsite-(CaMnMg) CaMn 2+   (Mg,Fe 2+   )   2 Fe 3+ 2 (PO   4 )   4 (OH)   2 · 8H   2 O Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © Stephan Wolfsried Kaolinite Al   2 Si   2 O   5 (OH)   4 Reference: [U.S. Geological Survey, 2005, Mineral Resources Data System: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia.] Kastningite (Mn 2+   ,Fe 2+   ,Mg)Al   2 [OH|PO   4 ]   2 · 8H   2 O Habit: prismatic to tabular Colour: colorless to very pale yellow Description: I have found this species on specimens dating back to 1967. Commonly was found then in the oxidized zone and mislabled as faifieldite. More commmon than previouly thought. I have seen over 40 specimens now in other collections and have collected at least twice that many. Jason S. Reference: [confirmed by EDS/XRD, New Orleans University, 2001] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © JBS 2007 'K Feldspar' Reference: [U.S. Geological Survey, 2005, Mineral Resources Data System: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia.] Kingsmountite (TL) Ca   4 (Fe 2+   ,Mn 2+   )Al   4 [(OH)   2 |(PO   4 )   3 ]   2 · 12H   2 O Type Locality: Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA Habit: prismatic to accicular, wedge-shaped Colour: white to pale yellow Reference: [Canadian Mineralogist (1979): 17: 579-582.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Kobellite Pb   22 Cu   4 (Bi,Sb)   30 S   69 Reference: [J.Wright Horton,Jr.,and Victor A.Zullo,1991,The Geology of the Carolinas,pg # 333] Laueite Mn 2+   Fe 3+ 2 [OH|PO   4 ]   2 · 8H   2 O Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Laumontite CaAl   2 Si   4 O   12 ·4H   2 O Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2008 Jesse Crawford Lepidolite Reference: [] Lithiomarsturite (TL) LiCa   2 Mn   2 Si   5 O   14 (OH) Type Locality: Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA Habit: rhombic; also as "slightly divergent crystal bundles with irregular terminations" Colour: "sherry," with very light color in terminations and edges. Fluorescence: none Description: "Each vug examined is lined with euhedral white albite crystals, upon which have grown transparent prismatic fluorapatite crystals, usually pale violet in color, and pyrite in simple cubes. Sprays of bavenite occur commonly, either in clusters of delicate. Also associated with brannockite, tetrawickmanite, and stannian titanite. Reference: [American Mineralogist, volume 75, pages 409-414, 1990.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © Stephan Wolfsried Lithiophilite LiMn 2+   [PO   4 ] Habit: Prismatic single or stellate, also equant, semi-rhombic, others. Colour: Transparent orange, peach, pink, pale to dark. Fluorescence: None Description: Worlds finest lithiophilite locality. Single xls to 2.4cm have been collected. Beautiful micro xls to 4mm were common right before the end of quarrying. Reference: [John S. White, "Mineralogy of the Foote Mine" in Geol. Invest. of the Kings Mtn. Belt...1981; Am Min 54 (1969), 1467-1469 ; Thomssen, R. W. & Anthony, J. W. (1977): Lithiophilite crystals from the Foote mine. Mineralogical Record 8 (2): 95-97] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Lithiophorite (Al,Li)MnO   2 (OH)   2 Reference: [] Lithiophosphate Li   3 [PO   4 ] Habit: blocky, very similar to topaz Colour: colorless to light brown Description: Extremely rare. Large xl on matrix in the smithsonian collection. Reference: [Jan H.Bernard and Jaroslav Hyrsl,2004, Minerals and their Localities, pg # 357; Am Min 54 (1969), 1467-1469] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Magnesite ? MgCO   3 Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Magnetite Fe 2+   Fe 3+ 2 O   4 Description: Very rare at Foote. Reference: [Suggest consulting Jason Smith.] Malachite Cu   2 [(OH)   2 |CO   3 ] Reference: [J.Wright Horton,Jr.,and Victor A.Zullo,1991,The Geology of the Carolinas,pg # 333] Mangangordonite (TL) Mn 2+   Al   2 [OH|PO   4 ]   2 · 8H   2 O Type Locality: Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA Habit: tabular, by analogy to laueite Colour: white to colorless Description: Fine crystals to around 2mm. Associated with hureaulite, rittmannite, eosphorite, etc. Reference: [Jan H.Bernard and Jaroslav Hyrsl,2004,Minerals and their Localities,pg #376] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © JBS 2006 Marcasite FeS   2 Habit: Usually acicular Colour: bronze Fluorescence: none Description: Usually embedded as tiny acicular inclusions in transparent fluorapatite crystals; less commonly free on albite crystals in vugs, often with fluorapatite, fairfieldite, bavenite or others. The mineral produces some good quality micromounts, but never anyt Reference: [Many private collections - many (all?) well-known Foote collectors have it.] Matulaite CaAl   18 [(OH)   5 |(PO   4 )   3 ]   4 · 28H   2 O Habit: Pulverant white balls to very rare sharp, platy crystals in tiny groups. Colour: white Reference: [JBS collection] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Messelite Ca   2 (Fe 2+   ,Mn 2+   )[PO   4 ]   2 · 2H   2 O Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © Dick Dionne Meta-autunite Ca(UO   2 )   2 [PO   4 ]   2 · 6-8H   2 O Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Metaswitzerite (TL) Mn   3 (PO   4 )   2 ·4H   2 O Type Locality: Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA Description: Pink to brown bundles of tabular xls. Looses moisture rapidly and over the years the crystals delaminate. Crystals up to 6mm. Reference: [Jan H.Bernard and Jaroslav Hyrsl,2004,Minerals and their Localities,pg # 395] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS 'Mica Group' Reference: [U.S. Geological Survey, 2005, Mineral Resources Data System: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia.] Microcline K[AlSi   3 O   8 ] Description: Occurs in lithia pegmatite. Reference: [Rocks & Min.:60:65 & 76-83.] Milarite K   2 Ca   4 Al   2 Be   4 Si   24 O   60 ·H   2 O Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.; Am Min 54 (1969), 1467-1469] Mitridatite Ca   2 Fe 3+ 3 [O   2 |(PO   4 )   3 ] · 3H   2 O Habit: Drusy at 40x or higher. Colour: Olive green to cinnamon-tan. Greener >Fe, tan >Mn. Description: Not uncommon as unimpressive secondary stains of early paragenesis, often with more desirable phosphates crystallizing over it. Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © Dick Dionne Monazite-(Ce) (Ce,La,Nd,Th)PO   4 Habit: polycrystalline coating Colour: grey Description: As coatings on calcioancylite-Ce xls on holmquistite with pyrite. Reference: [Mineralogical Record, V18, May-June 1987, 203-205] Montebrasite LiAl[(OH,F)|PO   4 ] Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Montgomeryite ? Ca   4 MgAl   4 [(OH)   2 |(PO   4 )   3 ]   2 · 12H   2 O Description: Very dubious. Probably early indentification of what would be kingsmountite. Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Moraesite Be   2 [OH|PO   4 ] · 4H   2 O Habit: radial accicular Colour: white Description: radially arrange accicular xls on quartz. One-time find. Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Muscovite KAl   2 [(OH)   2 |AlSi   3 O   10 ] Habit: Very nice crystals can be collected, but they are usually micro. Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2008 JBS Nagyágite Pb   5 Au(Te,Sb)   4 S   5-8 Reference: [Dana 7:I:169.] Natrolite Na   2 [Al   2 Si   3 O   10 ] · 2H   2 O Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Neotocite (Mn,Fe,Mg)SiO   3 ·H   2 O Habit: None. "waxy or pitchy with a conchoidal fracture" Colour: Dark brown Fluorescence: none Reference: [Mineralogical Record, vol. 18, March-April, 1987, pages 133-134.] Parascholzite CaZn   2 (PO   4 )   2 ·2H   2 O Reference: [Jason B. Smith Collection] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © JBS 2009 Paravauxite Fe 2+   Al   2 [OH|PO   4 ]   2 · 8H   2 O Habit: tabular Colour: pale yellow, semi-transparent Description: Confirmed in early 2004 in several specimens from one boulder on the dumps. Reference: [Confirmed, EDS, 2004] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © Stephan Wolfsried Parsettensite K   1.2 Mn   8 (Si,Al)   12 O   26 (OH)   10 Habit: Platy, rosettes, spheroids Colour: Pearly brown, golden-tan or non-metallic bronze, alters to black. Fluorescence: None Description: Formerly "unknown #2." Sometimes confused for meta-switzerite (and visa-versa). Certainly the worlds best locality for the species. Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © Stephan Wolfsried Petalite ? LiAlSi   4 O   10 Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Phlogopite KMg   3 [(OH,F)   2 |AlSi   3 O   10 ] Reference: [U.S. Geological Survey, 2005, Mineral Resources Data System: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia.] Phosphophyllite Zn   2 Fe(PO   4 )   2 ·4H   2 O Habit: twinned to single tabular Colour: colorless to pale green Description: Nice crystals to 7mm. One occurence with scholzite, schoonerite, etc. Reference: [SEM-EDS, New Orleans University, 12/02] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Phosphosiderite FePO   4 ·2H   2 O Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © Dick Dionne Prehnite Ca   2 Al   2 Si   3 O   12 (OH) Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Pseudolaueite Mn 2+   Fe 3+ 2 [OH|PO   4 ]   2 · 8H   2 O Habit: tabular Colour: orange Description: Nice tabular xls associated with other phosphates. Has been collected 4 times by myself (jason smith) and I assume it is in someone else collection out there somewhere. Reference: [visual identification] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2004 JBS Purpurite (Mn 3+   ,Fe 3+   )[PO   4 ] Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Pyrargyrite Ag   3 SbS   3 Reference: [Supplee,J,Lapoint D,Feiss,P.G,1985,Stratigraphy and Minerology of a Carbonate-Hosted gold deposit: Kings Mountain Gold Mine,NC,OSTI. ID 6169747] Pyrite FeS   2 Habit: Cubo-octahedrons, cubes, octahedrons. Diploids rare. Description: Nice crystals in micro sizes common, but larger specimens of quality unknown. Reference: [Most Foote collections have good examples.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © JBS 2007 Pyrrhotite Fe   7 S   8 , (-4M), also given as Fe   1-x S (x = 0 - 0.2) Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Quartz SiO   2 Description: Good crystals are usually very small. Abundant as sugary-granular masses in the pegmatite pulverized from tectonic stress. Reference: [No reference listed] Rhodochrosite MnCO   3 Reference: [White,John Sampson,March 1994, Mineralogical Record] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © JBS 2007 Rittmannite ? (Mn 2+   ,Ca)Mn 2+   (Fe 2+   ,Mn 2+   ,Mg)   2 (Al,Fe 3+   )   2 (PO   4 )   4 (OH)   2 · 8H   2 O Reference: [Jason B. Smith] Robertsite Ca   3 Mn 3+ 4 [(OH)   3 |(PO   4 )   2 ]   2 · 3H   2 O Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Rockbridgeite Fe 2+   Fe 3+ 4 [(OH)   5 |(PO   4 )   3 ] Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Roscherite Ca   2 (Mn 2+   ,Fe 2+   )   5 Be   4 [(OH)   4 |(PO   4 )   6 ] · 6H   2 O Habit: bunches of leaf like crystals Colour: pale green Description: True, monoclinic roscherite is found here. Most of the older specimens labelled roshcerite are most likely footemineite. Reference: [Am Min 54 (1969), 1467-1469] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Rutile TiO   2 Description: Very rare at Foote - only a few examples known Reference: [Jason Smith knows the whereabouts of all known examples.] Scholzite CaZn   2 (PO   4 )   2 ·2H   2 O Habit: blocky to tabular Colour: white to near colorless Description: Blocky to tabular xls with phosphophyllite. Parascholzite is probably present but material has not been X-rayed. Reference: [EDS-SEM. New Orleans University. 12/02] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Schoonerite ZnMn 2+   Fe 2+ 2 Fe 3+   (PO   4 )   3 (OH)   2 · 9H   2 O Habit: accicular, clearly orthorhombic Colour: brown with golden sheen Description: Associated intimately with phosphophyllite and scholzite on only six specimens. Reference: [] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Schorl [Na][Fe 2+ 3 ][Al   6 ][(OH)   3 |OH|(BO   3 )   3 |Si   6 O   18 ] Description: Abundant in the schist country rock, occassional in contact zone and essentially absent deeper in the pegmatite. Terminations rarely observed. Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] 'Sericite' Reference: [U.S. Geological Survey, 2005, Mineral Resources Data System: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia.] Siderite FeCO   3 Reference: [White, John Sampson, March 1994, Mineralogical Record] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © Karl Volkman 08/05 Silver Ag Reference: [J.Wright Horton,Jr.,and Victor A.Zullo,1991,The Geology of the Carolinas,pg # 333] Spessartine Mn 2+ 3 Al   2 [SiO   4 ]   3 Reference: [White,J.S,1981,Mineralogy of the Foote Mine,Kings Mountain,North Carolina.In J.W Horton,J.R. Butler,and D.J Milton.Eds.,Geological investigations of the Kings Mountain belt and adjacent area in the Carolinas,pg39-48.Carolina Geological Society Field Trip Gudebook 1981,South Carolina Geological Survey,Colunbia,South Carolina] Sphalerite (Zn,Fe 2+   )S Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Spodumene LiAl[Si   2 O   6 ] Colour: Usually pale celery-green and opaque. Description: Ubiquitous in the pegmatite, being the ore mineral sought here. Among the world's richest deposits of the mineral. Hard to collect uncleaved crystals. Size reaches about twenty inches long by four inches wide, but most are less than six inches long. Reference: [Jan H.Bernard and Jaroslav Hyrsl,2004,Minerals and their Localities,pg # 567] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © Charles Creekmur Staurolite (Fe 2+   ,Mg,Zn)   1.5-2 Al   9 [O   6 |(OH,O)   2 |(SiO   4 )   4 ] Description: In the metamorphic country rock. Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Stewartite Mn 2+   Fe 3+ 2 [OH|PO   4 ]   2 · 8H   2 O Habit: prismatic to accicular, wedge-shaped Colour: orange Reference: [No reference listed] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © Dick Dionne Strengite FePO   4 ·2H   2 O Colour: Usually colorless or white. Mn-rich examples pink or lavender. Description: At Foote the mineral is aluminum-rich and iron-poor. Green colors unobserved. May be hard to distinguish from phosphosiderite. Reference: [No reference listed] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © Stephan Wolfsried Strunzite Mn 2+   Fe 3+ 2 [OH|PO   4 ]   2 · 6H   2 O Reference: [No reference listed] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Sulphur S   8 Habit: complex xls Colour: light to bright yellow Description: Tiny xls in casts left behind by pyrite xls in the oxidized zone with strengite. Reference: [] Swinefordite (TL) Li(Al,Li,Mg)   4 (Si,Al)   8 O   20 ,(OH,F)   4 ·xH   2 O Type Locality: Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA Habit: A clay. Hydrated: "resemble petroleum jelly." Stable: "resembles mountain leather." Colour: "light greenish-grey to greyish olive." Old dump material turns dark. Description: Formed by weathering of lithium-rich silicates. Often appears on and replacing spodumene, lining fracture seams, and coating small crystals of albite, quartz and fluorapatite. Scarce after closing of mine, but still being found. Also found associated with Reference: [American Mineralogist, volume 60, pages 540-547, 1975.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Switzerite (TL) (Mn,Fe)   3 (PO   4 )   2 ·7H   2 O Type Locality: Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA Reference: [Nickel & Nichols, 1991 - "Mineral Reference Manual", p204] Talc Mg   3 Si   4 O   10 (OH)   2 Habit: balls of plates Colour: white Description: With parsettensite or tremolite. Also found in wall-rock (country rock) in seams with prehnite and calcite. Reference: [] Tetrahedrite (Cu,Fe,Ag,Zn)   12 Sb   4 S   13 Reference: [Dana 7:I:206.] Tetrawickmanite (TL) Mn 2+   [Sn 4+   (OH)   6 ] Type Locality: Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA Habit: Pseudooctahedral, basal pinacoid; also subhedral. Forms (112), (001), also (100) faintly. Colour: Honey yellow, yellow-brown, "turbid brownish orange" Fluorescence: none Description: Crystals up to 1.5mm. Reference: [Mineralogical Record, vol. 4, January-February 1973. pages 24-30.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © JBS 2006 Tinticite Fe 3+ 5.34 (PO   4 )   3.62 (VO   4 )   0.38 (OH)   4 ·6.7H   2 O Reference: [Anthony,J.W.,Bideaux,R.A.,Bladh,K.W.,and Nichols,M.C.,2000,Handbook of Mineralogy Volume 4.Arsenates,phosphates,uraninates,vanadates,Mineral Data Publishing,Tucson,Arizona,680 pg] Titanite CaTi[O|SiO   4 ] Reference: [Sn-free titanite is found here as well] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © JBS 2007 Titanite var: Stanniferous Titanite Ca(Ti,Sn)SiO   5 Reference: [] Torbernite Cu(UO   2 )   2 (PO   4 )   2 ·12H   2 O Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Tremolite ☐[Ca   2 ][Mg   5 ][(OH)   2 |Si   8 O   22 ] Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Triploidite ? (Mn 2+   ,Fe 2+   )   2 [OH|PO   4 ] Description: Dubious. Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Uralolite Ca   2 Be   4 [OH|PO   4 ]   3 · 5H   2 O Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Uraninite UO   2 Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Uranophane Ca(UO   2 )   2 [HSiO   4 ]   2 · 5H   2 O Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.] Variscite AlPO   4 ·2H   2 O Habit: smooth spheres of tiny accicular xls Colour: white Description: Confirmed on a small number of specimens associated with mangangordonite xls. Reference: [indentified by EDS, 2004] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Vivianite Fe 2+ 3 (PO   4 )   2 ·8H   2 O Reference: [White,John Sampson, March 1994, Mineralogical Record] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © 2005 JBS Whiteite-(MnFeMg) (Mn 2+   ,Ca)(Fe 2+   ,Mn 2+   )Mg   2 Al   2 (PO   4 )   4 (OH)   2 · 8H   2 O Description: Occurs in lithia pegmatite. Reference: [Rocks & Min.:60:65 & 76-83.] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © Stephan Wolfsried Wickmanite Mn 2+   [Sn(OH)   6 ] Reference: [Jan H.Bernard and Jaroslav Hyrsl,2004, Minerals and their Localities,pg # 658] Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA © JBS 2006 Xanthoxenite Ca   4 Fe 3+ 2 [OH|(PO   4 )   2 ]   2 · 3H   2 O Reference: [Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina-W.F.Wilson and B.J. McKenzie-1980] Zabuyelite Li   2 CO   3 Description: Found as subatomic crystals in fluid inclusions in spodumene in the pegmatite. Reference: [Anderson, A. J., et al. (1994):"Zabuyelite in spodumene-bearing pegmatites", GAC-MAC Program Abstr. 19, A3 ] Zinnwaldite KLiFe 2+   Al[(F,OH)   2 |AlSi   3 O   10 ] Description: This mineral does not occur within the body of the pegmatite, but it is present in the country rock along the contact zone associated with holmquistite. The mineral appears as brown flakes of easily-visible size resembling phlogopite. Reference: [No reference listed] Zircon Zr[SiO   4 ] Reference: [To many to list here. If interested, we can e-mail them to you.]

165 entries listed. 154 valid minerals. 11 type localities (valid minerals).

Localities in this Region:

USA   North Carolina Cleveland Co. Kings Mountain District Atlas Tin Shaft Blue Ridge Mine and Placer Durham Mine Faires Tin Mine (E. C. Faires Property; Faires Prospect; Atlas Shaft) Falls Tin Prospect (Falls Property; Mrs. Lizzie Fall's Property; Mrs. Elizabeth Fall's Property) Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine) Frank Summers Tin Occurrence J. A. Stewart Manganese Property J. Patterson Tin Prospect James S. Parker Manganese Property Kings Mountain Crushed Rock Quarry Kings Mountain Lithium Mine Kings Mountain Mica Mine Kings Mountain Mine (Blue Ridge Tin Corporation Mine; Mountain Mine) Kings Mountain Mine (Catawba Mine) Kings Mountain Tin Mine Mike Plonk Prospect (Plonk Prospect) Moss Kaolin and Mica Mine Old Ledoux Tin Prospects Ross Tin Prospect Unnamed Beryl Occurrence (MRDS - 10078657) Unnamed Clay Pit Fl - 032 (MRDS - 10078253) Unnamed Gold Mine (MRDS - 10078185) Unnamed Iron Ore Prospect Fl-153 (MRDS - 10096506) Unnamed King Mountain Tin Occurrences (MRDS - 10078601) Unnamed Limestone Prospect Fl-034 (MRDS - 10078183) Unnamed Limestone Quarry Fl-035 (MRDS - 10078184) Unnamed Limestone Quarry Fl-046 (MRDS - 10105984) Unnamed Mica Prospect Fl - 058 (MRDS - 10078260) Unnamed Prospect (MRDS - 10127223) Unnamed Prospect (MRDS - 10150743) Unnamed Prospect (MRDS - 10151336) Unnamed Prospect (MRDS - 10199605) Unnamed Prospect (MRDS - 10199710) Unnamed Prospect (MRDS - 10272336) Unnamed Prospect (MRDS - 10272834) Unnamed Prospect (MRDS - 10273020) Unnamed Prospect (MRDS - 10296594) Unnamed Prospect (MRDS - 10297002) Unnamed Spodumene Prospect and Tin Occurrence (MRDS - 10078609) Unnamed Tin Float Occurrence Fl-131 (MRDS - 10093766) Unnamed Tin Occurrence Fl-139 (MRDS - 10078607) Unnamed Tin Occurrence Fl-142 (MRDS - 10096492) Unnamed Tin Occurrence Fl-143 (MRDS - 10078608) Unnamed Tin Occurrence Fl-144 (MRDS - 10089473) Unnamed Tin Occurrence Fl-147 (MRDS - 10089474) Unnamed Tin Prospect Fl-133 (MRDS - 10078603) Unnamed Tin Prospect Fl-136 (MRDS - 10078605) Unnamed Tin Prospect Fl-137 (MRDS - 10078606) Unnamed Tin Prospect Fl-141 (MRDS - 10089472) Wells Barite Property

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