Database of luminescent minerals 

NORBERGITE

Chemical formula: Mg₃(SiO₄)(F,OH)₂

Family: Silicates

Status: IMA-GP

Crystal system : Orthorhombic

Display mineral: NON

Luminescence:

Daylight picture

NORBERGITE in marble, Franklin Quarry
Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA

Photo and Copyright: James Hamblen
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Shortwave (254nm) picture

NORBERGITE in marble, Franklin Quarry
Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
OC (254 nm).
Photo and Copyright: James Hamblen
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Used with permission of the author

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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): TiO₆,

Peaks in the spectrum (nm):

TiO₆ (Ti⁴⁺-Si⁴⁺) : 580 nm

No spectrum yet

Best localities for fluorescence (*):

• Skräbböle quarry, Pargas (Parainen), Southwestern Finland Region, Finland (bright yellow SW);
• Crystal Lake fluoborite occurrence, Galway Township, Peterborough Co., Ontario, Canada (dull orange SW);
• York River, Bancroft, Ontario, Canada;
• Limecrest Quarry, Sparta Township, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA (bright yellow SW);
• Franklin Quarry (Moses Bigelow Quarry; Farber Quarry), Franklin Marble, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA (bright yellow SW);
• Fowler Quarry (Nicoll Quarry; Nicols Quarry; Cellate Quarry), Franklin Marble, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA;
• Rhein property, Amity, Town of Warwick, Orange Co., New York, USA (bright yellow SW);
• Seavey Road Quarry (Imery Marble Quarry), Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co., New York, USA (yellow 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 ,
• Luminescent Spectra of Minerals, Boris S. Gorobets and Alexandre A. Rogojine, Moscow, 2002 ,

Reference for luminescence on the Internet:

Mineralogical reference on the Internet:

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

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

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