Database of luminescent minerals 

TELYUSHENKOITE

Chemical formula: CsNa₆[Be₂(Si,Al,Zn)₁₈O₃₉F₂]

Family: Silicates

Status: IMA-A

Crystal system : Rhomboedric

Display mineral: NON

Luminescence:

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Phosphorescence (in the common sense of the term) observable with the naked eye:

No data

Comments:

A cesium analog of leifite, It has been found in colorless grains of about 0.5 inch with feldspars, pectolite reedmergerite, leucophane. Fluorescence is violet under SW. Information from Karl-Heinz Russ.

Activator(s) and spectrum:

No spectrum yet

Best localities for fluorescence (*):

• Dara-i-Pioz Glacier (Dara-Pioz), Tajikistan;

(*)The data are not exhaustive and are limited to a few remarkable localities for fluorescence

Bibliographic reference for luminescence:

• Luminescent Spectra of Minerals, Boris S. Gorobets and Alexandre A. Rogojine, Moscow, 2002 ,

Reference for luminescence on the Internet:

Mineralogical reference on the Internet:

  http://www.mindat.org/show.php?name=Telyushenkoite

  http://webmineral.com/data/Telyushenkoite.shtml

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