Does anyone know what plain berylliyum looks like?

[shaman15771]

Does anyone know what plain beryllium looks like?

I have something that looks like what I've seen posted. I will upload picture if someone might know. Beryllium. Tried to edit title with no luck.

 

[DDancer]

Native beryllium is fairly rare and appears as a silver gray metallic either massive or in thin needles.

 

[shaman15771]

Hey DD, Reason I asked is this picture on Google.

 

[BurntBear]

Here is a link to some info and photo of raw material:

Beryllium mining, Copper Mining, Magnesium Mining, Minerals Mining, Surface Mining

 

[shaman15771]

Thanks Luke, As I thought, Google doesn't have any idea what they're doing.

 

[605dano]

They used to produce Beryllium here in the 1960's. They mined beryl from pegmatites and processed it for the Beryllium content. I never heard of pure Beryllium being found. All I know.

 

[shaman15771]

I wouldn't think so, has to be processed.