Images
Formula: Li
Lithium is an element which is not found in its native state.
Abundance in the earth’s crust: 20 parts per million by weight, 60 parts per million by moles
Abundance in the solar system: 60 parts per trillion by weight, 10 parts per trillion by moles
(ChC).
Lithium-bearing minerals include:
Halides
colquiriite
cryolithionite
Sulphates
seaborgite
Phosphates
amblygonite
bertossaite
ferrisicklerite
gainesite
lithiophilite
montebrasite
palermoite
sicklerite
tiptopite
triphylite
Nesosilicates
eucryptite
liberite
Cyclosilicates
elbaite
fluor-elbaite
fluor-liddicoatite
sogdianite
sugilite
Inosilicates
eucryptite
neptunite
potassic-mangani-leakeite
spodumene
Phyllosilicates
cookeite
norrishite
petalite
polylithionite
trilithionite
Tectosilicates
bikitaite
Back to Minerals