Database of luminescent minerals 

glendonite

Chemical formula: See CALCITE

Family: Carbonates

Status: NR

Display mineral: NON

Associated names (luminescent varieties, discredited names, synonyms, etc.): fundylite,  jarrowite,  pseudogaylussite,  pyramidite, 

Luminescence:

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

No data

Comments:

Term used to name pseudomorphosis of different minerals in calcite: ikaite, thenantite or glauberite. The name come from Glendon, New South Wales, Australie.
Synonyms:
•fundylite - from "Bay of Fundy", Canada
•jarrowite - from Jarrow, United Kingdom. Browell (1860)
•gennoishi - found near Niigata, au Japon
•gersternkorner - from German "Gerste".
•Molekryds - found in "Mors Island", Danemark
•pseudogaylussite - because of the pseudomorphosis from gaylussite
•pyramidite - from Pyramid Bay, USA.
•thinolite - SW of the USA - King (1878)
Source: http://fr.academic.ru/dic.nsf/frwiki/113723

Activator(s) and spectrum:

No spectrum yet

Best localities for fluorescence (*):

• Camp Verde, Yavapai County Arizona;
• Grays Harbor Co., Washington, USA;
• Olenitsa River, White Sea Coast, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region, Russia;
• Grays Harbor Co., Washington, USA;

(*)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 ,

Mineralogical reference on the Internet:

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

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

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