Database of luminescent minerals 

FLUOBORITE

Chemical formula: Mg₃(BO₃)(F,OH)₃

Family: Borates

Status: IMA-GP

Display mineral: NON

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

Luminescence:

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

No data

Comments:

May be mistaken for norbergite or chondrodite also found in the Franklin marble;

Activator(s) and spectrum:

No spectrum yet

Best localities for fluorescence (*):

• Edison-Bodnar Quarries (Bodner Quarry), Franklin Marble, Rudeville, Hardyston Township, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA;
• Franklin Quarry (Moses Bigelow Quarry; Farber Quarry), Franklin Marble, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA;
• Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA (900 level);
• Crystal Lake fluoborite occurrence, Galway Township, Peterborough Co., Ontario, Canada (fluoborite fluo bright white SW associated with norbergite fluo dull orange);
• Palabora Mine, Palabora, South Africa;
• New method Mine, Bristol Mountains of San Bernerdino County, California, USA;
• Crestmore quarries, Crestmore, Riverside Co., California, USA;
• Ludlow, San Bernardino Co., California, USA (weak yellowish-white SW);
• Nordmark Odal Field, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden;
• Crystal Lake fluoborite occurrence, Galway Township, Peterborough Co., Ontario, Canada (bright white SW);

(*)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 ,
• The World of Fluorescent Minerals, Stuart Schneider, Schiffer Publishing, 2006, ISBN 0-7643-2544-2 ,

Reference for luminescence on the Internet:

Mineralogical reference on the Internet:

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

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

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