Talk:Spodumene

Kunzite
Kunzite: a note of correction on the listing on kunzite for Wikipedia.

Pale pink kunzite was discovered in 1902 in the Pala District of San Diego County in California.

As a side note: In actual practice "discovering as in pick and shovel" Kunzite was dicovered by a miner and lapidarist in San Diego. The application of the name of Kunzite to the stone might be considered as an "honerariam" granted to Mr. Kuntz.

Just the notice of a error in fact (according to my humble knowledge). Also a question, where did Conneticut come into the picture.

If you would like a full blown reseach verification, I can do that, but it will be pretty boring. Really it was found here in San Diego.

Tommie Dillon San Diego

Hiddenite content moved
Moved the recently added info re: hiddenite to its own article. The info was quite dated and swamped the spodumene article. Feel free to update the no longer a redirect hiddenite page. Vsmith 02:59, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

"It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Spodumene. (Discuss)" I had originally posted the material on hiddenite to the spodumene page. Vsmith pronounced the historical information as "quite dated" (although since it is HISTORY it is absurd to pronounce it "dated"; the information itself is not obsolete). As for it "swamping" the spodumene entry, tearing out the hiddenite component before the rest of the data on spodumene, kunzite and triphane was uploaded was downright silly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gemology (talk • contribs) 06:43, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Hiddenite is a color variety of spodumene, caused by chromium ion inclusions. Kunzite is also a color variety of spodumene. It makes no sense to include one color variety (kunzite) but not exclude others (hiddenite, triphane). A mention of 'common spodumene' (often colorless, opaque and often poorly crystalline spodumene) might also be included. --Steve Hardinger, Dragon Minerals (www.dragon-minerals.com) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.97.138.112 (talk) 20:34, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Hiddenite IS spodumene, so what is the issue? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.100.212.130 (talk) 17:14, 22 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Move, as with other mineral/variety moves. The content of the hiddenite article is short, but good, and can be covered in a section of this article. --Kevmin (talk) 21:51, 5 November 2009 (UTC)


 * i removed the tags, that makes about as much sense as not having a page for ruby —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.119.9.134 (talk) 22:20, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Spodumene is also mined in large quantities at the Galaxy Resources site in Ravensthorpe, Western Australia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.212.206.66 (talk) 20:15, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Molar weight
I tried adding the molar weight = 109.805 g/mol to the table but failed.150.227.15.253 (talk) 21:21, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

"Demand in lithium-ion batteries"
I'm strongly tempted to cut this section out entirely. It reads suspiciously like an investor's prospectus and it is only marginally about spodumene, the mineral, rather than lithium hydroxide, obtained from spodumene and other lithium sources. I would say that the mention of lithium batteries in the immediately preceding section is all that is really needed for this article, per WP:PROPORTION. --Kent G. Budge (talk) 06:47, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I would agree, all the sources seem to be corporate press releases or don't even mention spodumene. Pieceofmetalwork (talk) 13:45, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I propose to start by removing everything sourced only to corporate press releases for which I can't find independent reliable sourcing. If anything is left, the next thing is to decide if this material would be more appropriate to move to Lithium-ion battery or perhaps Lithium hydroxide or just Lithium.--Kent G. Budge (talk) 19:19, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Got digging into it, and concluded this section is not worth trying to salvage. It's all about lithium and lithium investing with only tenuous connections to spodumene, the mineral species. Will add a cite to a neutral paper discussing extraction methods of lithium from spodumene in its place.

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