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Diopside from
Foote Lithium Co. Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:Diopside
Formula:CaMgSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Diopside data
Locality Data:Click here to view Foote Lithium Co. Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:45080
Long-form Identifier:1:3:45080:7
GUID (UUID V4):5a552ce5-1cb3-46a6-8e63-6f932017e15b
Nearest other occurrences of Diopside
44.7km (27.8 miles) Capps Hill Mine, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
51.9km (32.3 miles) Cherokee Springs meteorite, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA
82.3km (51.1 miles) North American Emerald Mine, Hiddenite, Alexander County, North Carolina, USA
References
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atencioite, from the Foote mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, U.S.A., and its relationship...Santos, SP, Brazil 3 303 Church Street, Belmont, North Carolina 28012-3320, U.S.A. 4 Institute of Problems...ne pegmatite at the Foote mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, U.S.A. Associated minerals...mineral from Foote mine described as “triclinic roscherite.” The name is for the Foote mine, type locality...Mn-phosphate, crystal structure, atencioite, Foote mine, North Carolina Introduction approved by the IMA-CNMMN
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rakovajf@miamioh.edu Fluorapatite Acushnet Quarry Bristol County, Massachusetts N orth America has produced some...gemmy, intense purple apatites from this pegmatite mine have made Pulsifer the premier locality for fluorapatite...opinion, and the opinion of many others, another of North America’s finest fluorapatite specimens. It is from...as the J. Keating Company stone quarry), Bristol County, Massachusetts. Rather than a granite pegmatite...fissures form under special conditions during mountain-building events (orogens) that result from collisional
 
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