Database of luminescent minerals
BESHTAUITE
Chemical formula: (NH4)2(UO2)(SO4)2*2H2O
Family: Sulfates
Status: IMA-A
Crystal system : Monoclinic
Display mineral: NON
Luminescence:
Longwave UV (365nm) colors: |
Yellowish Green , | ||
Intensity LW:Strong | |||
Midwave UV (320nm) colors: |
Yellowish Green , | ||
Shortwave UV (254nm) colors: |
Yellowish Green , | ||
Intensity SW:Strong | |||
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Phosphorescence (in the common sense of the term) observable with the naked eye:
No data
Activator(s) and spectrum:
Activator(s): (UO2)2+ (ion Uranyle) intrinsèque ,
No spectrum yet
Best localities for fluorescence (*):
- Gremuchka ore zone, Mine no. 1, Beshtau Mountain, Lermontovskoe U Deposit, Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Krai, Russia;
(*)The data are not exhaustive and are limited to a few remarkable localities for fluorescence
Bibliographic reference for luminescence:
Reference for luminescence on the Internet:
- Beshtauite, (NH4)2(UO2)(SO4)2·2H2O, a new mineral from Mount Beshtau, Northern Caucasus, Russia, Igor V. Pekov EMAIL logo , Sergey V. Krivovichev , Vasiliy O. Yapaskurt , Nikita V. Chukanov and Dmitriy I. Belakovskiy in American Mineralogist https://doi.org/10.2138/am.2014.4870
- Am Min Volume 99, pages 1783–1787, 2014
- http://ammin.geoscienceworld.org/content/99/8-9/1783
Mineralogical reference on the Internet:
http://www.mindat.org/show.php?name=Beshtauite
http://webmineral.com/data/Beshtauite.shtml
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