Hiddenite (Green Spodumene)

Item Description

Hiddenite is a green variety of Spodumene, and is best known from North Carolina, where the intense green hue and scarcity of the material made it an immensely popular stone. Most people are familiar with Kunzite, the pink variety of Spodumene, but colors like green and blue are much less common when it comes to Spodumene. Often any green Spodumene gem is labeled at being "Hiddenite", but according to a thread on mindat.org (https://www.mindat.org/mesg-253964.html), "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." We have chosen to call this stone a green Spodumene (as well as "Hiddenite"), but please know it was not analyzed from chromium content, nor is it from Hiddenite, North Carolina. The stone has a beautiful minty green hue with very very slight inclusions and an "Emerald" cut.