Colors range from lavender and greenish to buff. It is hardness 6.5 to 7 on the Mohs scale and is fluorescent under long wave UV with an orange color. This is a typical appearance: Opaque, light-colored, with excellent pyroxene-style cleavage and strongly striated crystal faces. Spodumene is found almost entirely in pegmatite bodies, where it usually accompanies the lithium mineral lepidolite as well as colored tourmaline, which has a small fraction of lithium. You'll find it with colored tourmaline and lepidolite in pegmatites. Spodumene is an uncommon light-colored pyroxene with the formula LiAlSi 2O 6.
