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Hiddenite
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Hiddenite, Alexander Co., North Carolina, USA
© Rob Lavinsky
| Colour: | Green | ||
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| Name: | For mineralogist William Earl Hidden (1853-1918). It is NOT named after the town of Hiddenite, the town was named after the mineral variety! | ||
A variety of Spodumene
Hiddenite was originally defined by Kunz as "always transparent, ranges from colorless (rare) to a light yellow, into a yellowish green, then into a deep yellow emerald green. Sometimes an entire crystal has a uniform green color, but generally one end is yellow and the other green."
There are disagreements between different people as to what now constitutes a "hiddenite", some claiming it must contain some chromium, others claiming it must be a particular shade of green, others claiming both of the above and that it must be from the Hiddenite area of North Carolina. Colorless or yellow spodumene should not be referred to as Hiddenite.
Originally described from Hiddenite, Alexander Co., North Carolina, USA.
Visit gemdat.org for gemological information about Hiddenite. Currently in public beta-test.
Hiddenite was originally defined by Kunz as "always transparent, ranges from colorless (rare) to a light yellow, into a yellowish green, then into a deep yellow emerald green. Sometimes an entire crystal has a uniform green color, but generally one end is yellow and the other green."
There are disagreements between different people as to what now constitutes a "hiddenite", some claiming it must contain some chromium, others claiming it must be a particular shade of green, others claiming both of the above and that it must be from the Hiddenite area of North Carolina. Colorless or yellow spodumene should not be referred to as Hiddenite.
Originally described from Hiddenite, Alexander Co., North Carolina, USA.
Visit gemdat.org for gemological information about Hiddenite. Currently in public beta-test.
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