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William Hidden is a great American minerologist known for his discoveries concerning the mineral hiddenite. Besides this, Hidden discovered another new precious stone, the garnet variety "rhodolite" (fuom rhod,on, the Greek for rose) in the Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. William Earl Hidden was born in the year 1853 in Providence, New York. He was later sent to North Carolina by American inventor Thomas Edison to look for Platinum.

What are Hiddenite? 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. rofessor Charles Palache of Harvard University and the writer were able, through the kindness of Mr. Colburn, to pay a short visit to the property and collect a suite of typical specimens which will form the basis for a full mineralogical description. The following brief account of the general occurrence may however be of interest, as there are no adequate published descriptions of the deposit.1

The Hiddenite mine, as mentioned previously, is situated in Alexander County in the Piedmont belt of North Carolina, about fifteen miles northwest of the town of Statesville. It can be easily reached by automobile from Statesville as its exact location is about one mile beyond Hiddenite post office, and about one hundred yards from the main highway between Statesville and Taylorsville.