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CHAPTER XVI. HIDDENITE
  
 
 
  
 
 
IDDENITE is a very rare and comparatively little-known gem-stone, which was discovered in 1880 in Alexander County, North Carolina, by Mr. W. E. Hidden, after whom it was named. In appearance it is something like the Emerald, both in its rough and cut states. It is of a brilliant green hue, lighter than that of the Emerald, verging towards yellow, and possessing a beauty of its own. Hiddenite is a variety of the mineral called Spodumene or Triphane, and is sometimes termed "Lithia Emerald." It occurs in association with Emeralds, and the two gem-stones have been worked by "The Emerald and Hiddenite Mining Company." A station on the Taylorsville extension of the Western North Carolina Railroad, near the mine, is named " Hiddenite."
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