Database of luminescent minerals 

CESSTIBTANTITE

Chemical formula: Cs(Sb⁺³,Na)(Ta,Nb)₂(O,OH,F)₇

Status: IMA-A

Display mineral: NON

Luminescence:

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

No data

Comments:

Associated with simpsonite (fluorescing blue-white) in a granite pegmatite.

New name for cesstibtantite: hydroxykenomicrolite.

Activator(s) and spectrum:

Activator(s): (UO₂)²⁺ (ion Uranyle) en impureté,

Peaks in the spectrum (nm):

UO₂²⁺ : 500-700nm 

560nm (?)

No spectrum yet

Best localities for fluorescence (*):

• Kola Peninsula, Russia;
• Tanco Mine (Bernic Lake Mine), Bernic Lake, Lac-du-Bonnet area, Manitoba, Canada ;

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

Bibliographic reference for luminescence:

• The Henkel Glossary of Fluorescent Minerals, Dr. Gerhard Henkel, Published by the FMS, 1989 ,
• Fluorescence: Gems and Minerals Under Ultraviolet Light, Manuel Robbins, 1994, Geoscience Press, ISBN 0-945005-13-X ,
• Luminescent Spectra of Minerals, Boris S. Gorobets and Alexandre A. Rogojine, Moscow, 2002 ,

Mineralogical reference on the Internet:

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

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

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