Database of luminescent minerals 

BURBANKITE

Chemical formula: (Na,Ca)₃(Sr,Ba,Ce)₃(CO₃)₅

Family: Carbonates

Status: IMA-GP

Crystal system : Hexagonal

Display mineral: NON

Luminescence:

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

No data

Comments:

Specimen not analyzed. should be strictly speaking labeled burbankite group (in the sense of Horvath – Lapis, Rivista 2000). Other possibilities for not analysed specimens: remondite(Ce), petersenite-(Ce), khanneshite and calcioburbankite. 

Activator(s) and spectrum:

Activator(s): Fe³⁺, Ce³⁺,  Sm³⁺,  Eu³⁺,  Dy³⁺,  Mn²⁺ ,  O^*,  Nd³⁺,  

Peaks in the spectrum (nm):

Ce³⁺ repl. Ca²⁺ : 390nm 

Mn²⁺ repl. Ca²⁺ : 560nm 

Sm³⁺ : 560 - 561, 594, 600, 642, 650, 702nm  (exc.532nm)

Eu³⁺ : 616nm

Fe³⁺  : 735nm 

Nd³⁺ repl. Ca²⁺ :869, 898, 950nm (exc. 780nm)

No spectrum yet

Comments on spectrum and activators:

Laser-induced photoluminescence was studied for burbankite group minerals hexagonal burbankite, calcioburbankite, khanneshite and monoclinic remondite-(Ce), remondite-(La), petersenite-(Ce), as well as for orthorhombic carbocemaite and strontianite from carbonatites and hydrothennalites of alkaline complexes from various regions of the world.

Burbankite was studied by steady-state luminescence spectroscopy and luminescence of trivalent REE, such as Dy, Sm and Nd, was found (Gorobets and Rogojine 2001)

All REE-rich minerals of burbankite group (REЕ₂О_з ~ 10.5 wt%) are characterized by violet luminescence and their photo- and X-ray luminescence spectra always contail1 four bands of Sm^3+.

Low-REE hydrothermal burbankites (RЕЕ₂О_з < 3 wt%) are distinguished bу different luminescence colors (from whitish to violet) and the low intensive spectra without Sm³⁺ bands.

The essential differences in luminescence properties of indicated burbankites are determined bу concentration ratio of the luminogene donor (Се³⁺) and the luminogene acceptor (Sm³⁺). (Gaft)

Best localities for fluorescence (*):

• Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region, Russia;
• Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada (SW&MW Bluish white);
• Murunskii Massif, Chara and Tokko Rivers Confluence, Aldan Shield, Sakha Republic (Saha Republic; Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia;
• Cerro Sapo, Ayopaya Province, Cochabamba, Bolivia;

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

Bibliographic reference for luminescence:

• The World of Fluorescent Minerals, Stuart Schneider, Schiffer Publishing, 2006, ISBN 0-7643-2544-2 ,
• Luminescence Spectroscopy of Minerals and Materials, M. Gaft, R. Reisfeld, G. Panczer, Springer Editor, ISBN: 10 3-540-21918-8 ,
• Luminescent Spectra of Minerals, Boris S. Gorobets and Alexandre A. Rogojine, Moscow, 2002 ,
• Mt St Hilaire Website: http://www.saint-hilaire.ca ,
• Minresco.com ,

Reference for luminescence on the Internet:

Mineralogical reference on the Internet:

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

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

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