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Himalaya Mine (Himalaya pegmatite; Himalaya dikes), Mesa Grande District, San Diego Co., California, USA
© 2001, Jesse Fisher
| System: | Monoclinic | Colour: | Colourless |
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| Hardness: | 2½ - 4 | ||
| Synonym of: | Polylithionite-Trilithionite Series | ||
Once considered to be a mineral species but now redefined as a series. More loosely also used as a field term for any light-colored lithium-bearing mica that has not been sufficiently analyzed for species determination (i.e., some "lepidolite" might be muscovite or phlogophite for example). The originaly lepidolite material came from Rožná pegmatite, Žďár nad Sázavou, Vysočina Region, Moravia (Mähren; Maehren), Czech Republic. | |||
References for Lepidolite | |
| Reference List: | Schaller, Waldemar Theodore (1905), Crystallography of lepidolite: American Journal of Science, 4th. Series: 19: 225-226. Stevens, Rollin Elbert (1938), New analyses of lepidolites and their interpretation: American Mineralogist: 23: 607-628. Mineralogical Record (1989): 20: 109. Canadian Mineralogist (1998): 36: 905-912. Mineralogical Magazine (1999): 63: 267-279. Kogure, T. and Bunno, M. (2004) Investigation of polytypes in lepidolite using electron back-scattered diffraction. American Mineralogist: 89: 1680-1684. |
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