Database of luminescent minerals 

CHERNIKOVITE

Chemical formula: See hydrogen autunite (H₃O)₂(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂ 6H₂O

Family: Phosphates, Arseniates, Vanadates

Status: IMA-A

Crystal system : Tetragonal

Display mineral: NON

Associated names (luminescent varieties, discredited names, synonyms, etc.): hydrogen autunite , 

Luminescence:

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

No phosphorescence visible to the naked eye under any type of UV

Comments:

earlier refered as hydrogen autunite;

Activator(s) and spectrum:

Activator(s): (UO₂)²⁺ (ion Uranyle) intrinsèque ,

Peaks in the spectrum (nm):

(UO₂)²⁺ : 484.9, 502.1, 523.6, 547.5, 573, 602.8nm

Synthetic Chernikovite : 505, 526, 550, 575,615nm

Solubility and spectrochemical characteristics of synthetic chernikovite and meta-ankoleite, LAURENT VAN HAVERBEKE, RENAUD VOCHTEN AND KAREL VAN SPRINGEL, Mineralogical Magazine, October 1996, Vol. 60 p763

Best localities for fluorescence (*):

• Perus, São Paulo, São Paulo, Southeast Region, Brazil;
• Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Central area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre);

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

Bibliographic reference for luminescence:

• Fluorescence: Gems and Minerals Under Ultraviolet Light, Manuel Robbins, 1994, Geoscience Press, ISBN 0-945005-13-X ,
• Uranium minerals Website: http://www.uraniumminerals.com ,
• Introduction to radioactive minerals, Robert Lauf, Schiffer Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7643-2912-8 ,

Reference for luminescence on the Internet:

Mineralogical reference on the Internet:

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

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

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