Beryl from
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

Description
Comments:	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
Habit:	Crystals faces rare, incomplete. Usually embedded grains.
Colour:	Majority is white (and overlooked). Emerald is known. Also pale green, pale blue.
UV Fluorescence:	none
Quality of samples:	Poor for species, only of interest for locality collectors. (#)
Rarity at site:	Rare
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
References
References:	U.S. Dept. Interior Geol. Survey Circ. 309 "Beryllium Resources of the Tin-Spodumene Belt, NC", 1954/1959, by W.R. Griffitts; Rocks and Minerals, (1985) 60:76-82; Carolina Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook 1981, 39-48
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Beryl data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

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