Guide of

Luminescent Minerals

from Franklin, New Jersey, USA



Gérard BARMARIN

 

List of luminescent mineral from Franklin, New Jersey, USA found in the database of fluomin.org

 



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Bibliography: THE MINERALS OF FRANKLIN AND STERLING HILL, NEW JERSEY, ALBERT S. WILKERSON, BULLETIN 65 NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 1962

There are 125 luminescent minerals found in Franklin, New Jersey, USA listed in the database.

 

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  •  ALBITE NaAlSi3O8

    LW: Red
    MW: Red
    SW: Red
    Comment:

    Pericline variety (ellongated albite following b axis) is sometime fluorescent: SW and LW: red; OL: bleu;

    Cleavelandite variety (albite in lamellar masses) is sometime fluorescent: SW and LW: cream; SW: pink (very weak);




  •  amazonite

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Red
    Comment:

    Greenish-blue variety of Microcline.




  •  ANORTHOCLASE (Na,K)AlSi3O8

    LW: Orange
    MW: Violet
    SW: Yellowish White
    Comment:


  •  apatite

    LW:
    MW:
    SW:
    Comment:

    apatite group: FLUORAPATITE, CHLORAPATITE, HYDROXYLAPATITE




  •  ARAGONITE CaCO3

    LW: Yellowish White
    MW: Pink
    SW: Bluish White
    Comment:
    • Nicholsonite (Zincian Aragonite): OL: jaune-orangé; OC: blanc-bleuté, crème;
    • Strontio-aragonite: OL: rouge-orangé, rose; OC: rose, blanc;
    • Tarnowitzite (aragonite plombifère): OL:orange, jaune, crème, vert; OC: jaune, crème;

    Kunz and Baskerville noted that aragonite fluoresces often strongly during their memorable investigation of 13000 mineral specimens in 1903.




  •  AXINITE-(Mn) Ca2Mn+2Al2BSi4O15(OH)

    LW: Red
    MW: Red
    SW: Red
    Comment:

    Manganaxinit was named by J. Fromm in 1909. The name manganaxinite was used by Aminoff in 1919 when referring to specimens from Franklin, New Jersey, USA and further supported by Charles Palache in 1929. Renamed Axinite-Mn by IMA in 2008.




  •  BARYLITE BaBe2Si2O7

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Violet Pink
    Comment:


  •  BARYSILITE Pb8Mn(Si2O7)3

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Red
    Comment:

    Reported fluo from Langban but not Franklin.

    In Jakobsberg, Sweden, wolastonite and margarosanite replace barysilite (see picture by Kjell Gatedal http://www.mindat.org/photo-241911.html )

    Doubtfull luminescence; in Langban, Barysilite is mixed with svabite (fluo SW orange) and calcite (fluo red SW). Close observation of the xls of Barysilite from Langban seems to indicate that it is not responding to UV.




  •  BARYTE BaSO4

    LW: Yellowish White
    MW: Yellowish White
    SW: Yellowish White
    Comment:

    Mineral barite is one of the first luminescent materials from which the famous Bologna stone was obtained.

    Nevertheless, up today the understanding of natural barite luminescence is very scarce.

    It has been known for a long time that some specimens of barite are fluorescent under UV exposure and emit white, yellow, green or orange light.

    In steady-state luminescence spectra of barite different luminescence bands from the UV to the red part of the spectrum have been detected.

    However, only UO22+ and Eu2+ luminescence centers have been confidently identified (Tarashchan 1978; Gaft et al. 1985).

    Laser-induced time-resolved technique enables to detect Ag+, Bi2+, Bi3+, Eu2+, Eu3+, Ce3+, Nd3+, (UO2)2+ and several still not identified emission centers (Gaft et al. 2001, 2008b) 




  •  BASSANITE 2CaSO4 H2O

    LW: Violet
    MW:
    SW: Violet
    Comment:


  •  BEMENTITE Mn7Si6O15(OH)8

    LW: Green
    MW:
    SW: Green
    Comment:

    Cited by de Ment in 1947




  •  beta-willemite

    LW:
    MW: Orange
    SW: Yellow
    Comment:

    = yellow fluorescing willemite (golden-yellow to orange)

    Beta-willemite does show anomalous yellow, rather than green fluorescence;
    the change in the luminescence is related to subtle, but consistent, structural differences with normal willemite. (see mindat)




  •  BIANCHITE (Zn,Fe+2)(SO4) 6H2O

    LW: Bluish White
    MW: Bluish White
    SW: Bluish White
    Comment:


  •  BRANDTITE Ca2(Mn+2,Mg)(AsO4)2 2H2O

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Green
    Comment:

    Certains échantillons de Brandtite fluorescents en vert OC devraient leur fluorescence à la willemite associée;




  •  BUSTAMITE (Mn+2,Ca)3Si3O9

    LW: Red
    MW:
    SW: Violet red
    Comment:

    Bustamite from Sterling Hill is not fluorescent. Bustamite from Franklin is mostly not fluorescent but sometimes.




  •  CAHNITE Ca2B(AsO4)(OH)4

    LW: Yellowish White
    MW:
    SW: Yellowish White
    Comment:

     Pale yellow fluorescence under LW and SW UV




  •  calciothomsonite

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Bluish White
    Comment:


  •  CALCITE CaCO3

    LW: Pink
    MW: Red
    SW: Blue
    Comment:

    manganocalcite OC rose, rouge; OL : orange, rose, rouge, rouge orangé;
    plumbocalcite : OC et OL: rouge sombre ;
    strontiocalcite OL et OC: crème, blanc-jaunâtre, rose;
    thinolite ( = pseudomorphose après gaylussite): OL et OC: orange, blanc bleuté;




  •  calcium larsenite

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Yellow
    Comment:

    syn: esperite




  •  CANAVESITE Mg2(CO3)(HBO3) 5H2O

    LW: Yellowish White
    MW:
    SW: Yellowish White
    Comment:


  •  CELESTITE SrSO4

    LW: Bluish White
    MW: Bluish White
    SW: Bluish White
    Comment:


  •  CELSIAN BaAl2Si2O8

    LW: Blue
    MW: Blue
    SW: Blue
    Comment:


  •  CERUSSITE PbCO3

    LW: Yellowish White
    MW: Yellow
    SW: Yellow
    Comment:

    Variéty chrome cerussite: SW et LW: Yellowish-White, greenish yellow;

    Activator: possibly Ag+ (Gorobets)or Pb2+ (Gaft), accessory Sm3+




  •  CHABAZITE-Ca (Ca0,5,K,Na)4[Al4Si8O24] 12H2O

    LW: Green
    MW:
    SW: Green
    Comment:

    Sometimes green fluo due to uranium impurities, sometimes yellow orange or yellowish white. Also pink SW and Blue white LW (Paterson, USA)




  •  CHARLESITE Ca6(Al,Si)2(SO4)2B(OH)4(OH,O)12 26H2O

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Greenish white
    Comment:


  •  chlorophane

    LW: Greenish white
    MW:
    SW: Greenish white
    Comment:

    Thermoluminescent variety of Fluorite;




  •  CHONDRODITE (Mg,Fe+2)5(SiO4)2(F,OH)2

    LW: Yellowish
    MW:
    SW: Yellow
    Comment:

    Easily confused with NORBERGITE which is visually very similar to it.




  •  CLINOCHRYSOTILE Mg3Si2O5(OH)4

    LW: Yellow
    MW:
    SW:
    Comment:

    From Franklin, NJ, in a report by John Chianciulli in Picking Table vol 45/2, this mineral fluoresces pale blue-gray to strong mustard yellow LW. In appearance, specimens are blocky, glassy, an yellow-brown. Information from Mark Boyer.

    Clinochrysotile represents the monoclinic or triclinic polymorphs of chrysotile.




  •  CLINOHEDRITE CaZnSiO4 H2O

    LW: Orange
    MW:
    SW: Orange
    Comment:

    Pectolite and wollastonite from Franklin, New Jersey, USA, have the same luminescent color but the association with hardystonite is typical of clinohedrite.

    Clinohedrite occurs sometime as an alteration of purple fluorescent hardystonite (see http://www.mindat.org/photo-263085.html)




  •  CORUNDUM Al2O3

    LW: Red
    MW: Red
    SW: Red
    Comment:

    Ruby variety(red): almost always luminescent(Cr3+)
    sapphire variety (blue): sometimes weak red or pink luminescence
    Other colored sapphires: frequently luminescent with variable intensity.




  •  CUSPIDINE Ca16(Si2O7)4(F,OH)8

    LW: Yellow
    MW: Salmon pink
    SW: Orangy yellow
    Comment:

    Fluo rose-peach MW; 
    Found in Franklin 1997 in very small quantity and in 2005 at Buckwheat dump, Franklin;
    First identified as johnbaumite, but differentiated by X-Ray powder diffraction analysis.




  •  DIOPSIDE CaMgSi2O6

    LW: Blue
    MW:
    SW: Blue
    Comment:

    Variety fassaite : white SW and LW;(Fassaite is now associated with augite but sometime described a diopside variety in the 19th publication)
    Associated as grain (fluo blue SW) in wernerite (fluo orange LW) in Canada.
    Associated with NORBERGITE (fluo Yellow SW) in Franklin, New jersey, USA;




  •  DOLOMITE CaMg(CO3)2

    LW: Yellowish White
    MW: Yellowish White
    SW: Yellowish White
    Comment:

    The Crazy Calcite fluo red SW from Franklin, USA is sometime composed by dark red SW fluorescing Dolomite mixed with bright red SW fluorescing Calcite, with black Franklinite  and tiny yellow Diopside crystals. The LW response is in shades of red-pink. It is however possible that the fluorescence of dolomite is due to the observation of the phenomenal fluorescence of calcite by transparency. 




  •  DUNDASITE PbAl2(CO3)2(OH)4 H2O

    LW: Greenish Yellow
    MW: Yellowish White
    SW: Greenish
    Comment:


  •  DYPINGITE Mg5(CO3)4(OH)2 5H2O

    LW: Yellowish White
    MW:
    SW: Bluish White
    Comment:

    Associated with lizardite and hydrotalcite in Snarum, Norway;




  •  EDENITE NaCa2Mg5Si7AlO22(OH)2

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Bluish White
    Comment:

    May be confused with PARGASITE or MAGNESIOHORNBLENDE also sometime luminescent.




  •  EPSOMITE MgSO4 7H2O

    LW: Yellowish White
    MW:
    SW: Blue
    Comment:


  •  ESPERITE PbCa3Zn4(SiO4)4

    LW: Yellowish White
    MW:
    SW: Yellow
    Comment:

    synonyme: calcium larsenite. Associated with willemite (green), hardystonite (dark-blue), calcite (red) and clinohédrite (orange), esperite from franklin give the most exciting combinaison of luminescent colors in one sample.




  •  ETTRINGITE Ca6Al2(SO4)3(OH)12 26H2O

    LW: Yellowish White
    MW:
    SW: Bluish White
    Comment:


  •  FLUOBORITE Mg3(BO3)(F,OH)3

    LW: Bluish White
    MW:
    SW: Bluish White
    Comment:

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




  •  FLUOR-UVITE Ca(Mg3)MgAl5(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3F

    LW: Pale Yellow
    MW:
    SW: Yellow
    Comment:


  •  FLUORAPATITE Ca5(PO4)3F

    LW: Pale Yellow
    MW: Violet
    SW: Orangy yellow
    Comment:

    Variété MANGANAPATITE: OL et OC: jaune, orange ; Activators: Eu2+, Ce3+, Mn2+, Dy3+, Nd3+, Sm3+ and Sm2+; TR3+ are located in the high symmetry Ca(I) position (Gorobets, Marfunin, Waychunas). Large pics: Mn2+ 569 nm, Mn3+ 583nm (yellow band); Other activator: U: 467, 486, 505, 526, 550 nm (gaft); Blue and violet luminescent colors due to Ce3+ and Eu2+; pink, violet pink, yellow pink: Sm3+, Dy3+; yellow band due to Mn2+ (Marfunin)

     

    The luminescence spectrum of fluorapatite from Panasqueira, Portugal, is characterized by four emission bands 349 nm (bandwidth:,10 nm) (REE possibly Ce3+); 445 nm (40nm)(REE possibly Eu2+); 555 rm (100 nm)(Mn2+ + REE sensitization (co-activator/UV absorber) most probably Ce3+ and Eu2+); 701 nm (50 nm)(Unknown activator). (Source see link to article below)

     

    The diversity of the luminescence in Apatite is created in part by:

    - the ability of the apatite structure to incorporate transition metal, REE and anion impurity activators and co-activators, often in combination;

    - the varying types of associations and formation conditions that promote luminescence activity; and

    - the nature of the structure of the apatite host itself.

     

    This favorable and flexible host structure has not been lost to commercial enterprises, as apatites have long been used as synthetic phosphors in industrial and consumer products. (Apatite Luminescence, Glenn A. Waychunas, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry; January 2002; v. 48)

     

    Ninety-five percent of the phosphorus on Earth belongs to the minerals of the apatite group

     

    Synthetic fluorapatite doped with manganese-II and antimony-V formed the basis for the second generation of fluorescent tube phosphors referred to as halophosphors (before 1942, synthetic Mn-doped willemite was used). When irradiated with 253.7 nm mercury resonance radiation they fluoresced with broad emission which appeared within the range of acceptable whites. The antimony-V acted as the primary activator and produced a broad blue emission. The addition of manganese-II produced a second broad peak to appear at the red end of the emission spectrum at the expense of the antimony peak, excitation energy being transferred from the antimony to the manganese by a non-radiative process and making the emitted light appear less blue and more pink. Replacement of some of the fluoride ions with chloride ions in the lattice caused a general shift of the emission bands to the longer wavelength red end of the spectrum. These alterations allowed phosphors for Warm White, White and Daylight tubes, (with corrected color temperatures of 2900, 4100 and 6500 K respectively), to be made. The amounts of the manganese and antimony activators vary between 0.05 and 0.5 mole percent. Sometimes some of the calcium was substituted with strontium giving narrower emission peaks.

     

    Since about 1990 the third generation TriPhosphors, three separate red, blue and green phosphors activated with rare-earth ions and mixed in proportions to produce the desired color, have largely replaced halophosphors.




  •  FLUORAPOPHYLLITE KCa4Si8O20(F,OH) 8H2O

    LW: Yellowish White
    MW: Blue
    SW: Greenish
    Comment:


  •  FLUORITE CaF2

    LW: Blue
    MW: Blue
    SW: Blue
    Comment:

    The classical fluorescing mineral but all fluorites are not luminescent under UV !


    CHLOROPHANE variety : green thermoluminescence ;


    YTTROFLUORITE variety: SW and LW : yellow, yellowish-white (cream);

     




  •  FLUORO-EDENITE NaCa2Mg5(Si7Al)O22F2

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Bluish White
    Comment:

    Sometimes noted FLUOREDENITE (mispelling).




  •  FOWLERITE (Mn2+,Zn,Ca)SiO3

    LW: Red
    MW:
    SW: Red
    Comment:

    Cited by de Ment (1949)

    A variety of Rhodonite

    Zn- and Ca-bearing variety of rhodonite which consequently is paler pink than end-member rhodonite. 

    Named in 1832 by Charles Upham Shepard in honor of Dr. Samuel Fowler [October 30, 1779 Newburgh, New York, USA - February 20, 1844 Franklin, New Jersey, USA], a physician with strong interests in science and business and a US Congressman from New Jersey, 1833-1837. He enlisted the aid of all scientists he could interest in the deposits of Franklin and Sterling Hill, NJ. In 1810, he purchased Mine Hill, with a partner, in Franklin, site of the Franklin orebody. In 1818 and 1824, he acquired the Sterling Mine from the Ogden family. (from mindat.org)

     



  •  GANOMALITE Pb9Ca5Mn+2Si9O33

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: White
    Comment:


  •  GENTHELVITE Zn4Be3(SiO4)3S

    LW: Green
    MW: Pink
    SW: Green
    Comment:

    Discovered in Sterling (Franklin, NJ, USA) in 2002 in the Passaic Pit as tiny green fluorescing spots in amphibole.

    Mt St Hilaire helvite can be reliably distinguished from genthelvite via its UV response (deep red vs green  (Horvath et al Min Rec 1990 etc.)




  •  GERSTMANNITE (Mg,Mn+2)2ZnSiO4(OH)2

    LW: Greenish
    MW: Not fluorescent
    SW: Not fluorescent
    Comment:

    It was added to the list of fluorecent minerals of Franklin in 2014 after a study of all the sample of the Franklin Museum with blue light by Charles Mazel and Earl R Verbeeck. (see bibliography)

    Gerstmannite is best excited under true blue (440-450nm) light and show an olive-green luminescence. in LW the response is so weak that it was not considered as fluorescent before this study.




  •  GREENOCKITE CdS

    LW: Orangy yellow
    MW:
    SW: Orangy yellow
    Comment:

    Difficult to see the difference of the fluorescence of sphalerite/wurtzite/hawleyite when they are mixed.




  •  GROSSULAR Ca3Al2(SiO4)3

    LW: Red
    MW: Red
    SW: Red
    Comment:

    Grossular garnet from Lake Jaco, Chihuahua Mexico, may be found as dark cherry red crystals, with vesuvianite.

    Under either MW or a filtered high pressure UV source, these garnets fluoresce brilliantly in a pure red.

     

    Mont-Saint-Hilaire: grossular OH-bearing (hibschite)

     




  •  GUERINITE Ca5(AsO4)2(AsO3OH)2 9H2O

    LW: White
    MW:
    SW: White
    Comment:


  •  GYPSUM CaSO4 2H2O

    LW: Yellowish White
    MW:
    SW: Bluish White
    Comment:

    Syn: selenite;
    Sometimes presents a hourglass fluorescing figure in the center of monocrystals first observed in crystals from Wiesloch (Germany) in 1927 by H. Himmel but is now known from many other localities with occurrences of gypsum crystals in clay beds. (Himmel, H.(1927): Gips von Wiesloch(Baden). Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Abt. A (1927), 342-349)




  •  HARDYSTONITE Ca2ZnSi2O7

    LW: Violet blue
    MW: Violet blue
    SW: Violet blue
    Comment:

    A classics for Franklin minerals collectors.

    Some samples appear to fluoresce brighter under MW than SW; this phenomenon could be due to the fact that the response of the willemite often associated is duller under MW, so the fluorescence of hardystonite is better viewed. 

     




  •  HEDYPHANE Pb3Ca2(AsO4)3Cl

    LW: Orange
    MW: Red
    SW: Orange
    Comment:

    Samples from Langban are sometimes considered as mislabeled and could be mimetite.




  •  HEMIMORPHITE Zn4Si2O7(OH)2 H2O

    LW: Yellowish White
    MW: Yellowish White
    SW: Blue
    Comment:


  •  HEXAHYDRITE Mg SO4 6H2 O

    LW: White
    MW: White
    SW: White
    Comment:


  •  HODGKINSONITE Mn+2Zn2(SiO4)(OH)2

    LW: Red
    MW: Red
    SW:
    Comment:

    De Ment (1949) gives a (doubtfull) yellowish green fluorescence color under both LW and SW.




  •  HOLDENITE (Mn+2,Mg)6Zn3(AsO4)2(SiO4)(OH)8

    LW:
    MW:
    SW:
    Comment:


  •  HUMITE (Mg,Fe+2)7(SiO4)3(F,OH)2

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Yellow
    Comment:

    association with calcite (fluo red), aragonite (fluo blue white) and diopside (fluo blue white) gives beautifull samples from Parham, Ontario, USA (Long Lake Zinc Mine).




  •  HYALOPHANE (K,Ba)Al(Si,Al)3O8

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Violet red
    Comment:

    Sometime intimately associated with margarosanite in Franklin; the margarosanite could therefore be responsible for the blue luminescence.
    Other locality: Andover




  •  HYDROTALCITE Mg6Al2(CO3)(OH)16 4H2O

    LW: Yellowish White
    MW:
    SW: Yellowish White
    Comment:


  •  HYDROXYAPOPHYLLITE KCa4Si8O20(OH,F) 8H2O

    LW: Green
    MW:
    SW: White
    Comment:


  •  HYDROZINCITE Zn5(CO3)2(OH)6

    LW: Orange
    MW:
    SW: Bluish White
    Comment:

    Beautiful effect when in association with red fluorescing calcite;




  •  JOHANNSENITE CaMn+2Si2O6

    LW: Dark Orange /Tawn
    MW: Not fluorescent
    SW: Not fluorescent
    Comment:


  •  JOHNBAUMITE Ca5(AsO4)3(OH,F)

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Dark Orange /Tawn
    Comment:

    The arsenate analogue of Hydroxylapatite. The OH analogue of Turneaurite.




  •  JUNITOITE CaZn2Si2O7 H2O

    LW: Yellow
    MW:
    SW: Yellowish White
    Comment:


  •  KUTNOHORITE Ca(Mn+2,Mg,Fe+2)(CO3)2

    LW: Red
    MW:
    SW: Red
    Comment:

     Doubtful: many samples could be calcite containing Mn or the fluorescence may result from intermixed manganoan calcite




  •  LARSENITE PbZnSiO4

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Violet
    Comment:


  •  MAGNESIOHORNBLENDE XCa2[Mg4(Al,Fe+3)]Si7AlO22(OH)2

    LW: Greenish Blue
    MW:
    SW:
    Comment:


  •  MAGNESIORIEBECKITE XNa2(Mg3Fe+32)Si8O22(OH)2

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Bluish White
    Comment:

    It seems that it is the sphalerite underneath the Magnesioriebeckite that is fluorescing and not the magnesioriebeckite itself. (information by Stuart Schneider advised by Dick Bostwick and Earl Verbeek)




  •  MARGARITE CaAl2XAl2Si2O10(OH)2

    LW: Blue
    MW:
    SW: Blue
    Comment:

    Sometimes associated with red fluorescing corundum. Found in a 75 foot wide area of the Franklin Quarry at Franklin, USA.




  •  MARGAROSANITE Pb(Ca,Mn+2)2Si3O9

    LW: Violet red
    MW: Red
    SW: Bluish White
    Comment:

    In Jakobsberg, Sweden, wolastonite and margarosanite replace barysilite (see picture by Kjell Gatedal in bibliography)




  •  MARIALITE Na4Al3Si9O24Cl

    LW: Yellow
    MW:
    SW: Orange
    Comment:

    Mineral of the group SCAPOLITE ( see also MEIONITE).
    Marialite and meionite are found as masses or blocky crystals in a number of localities in the Grenville marble of Quebec and ontario (Canada). Sometimes (opaque white crystals from Otter Lake, Quebec) fluo red SW (activator: Fe) and white LW.




  •  MCALLISTERITE Mg2B12O14(OH)12 9H2O

    LW: Yellowish White
    MW:
    SW: Yellowish White
    Comment:


  •  MEIONITE 3CaAl2Si2O8CaCO3

    LW: Yellow
    MW: Orangy yellow
    SW: Yellow
    Comment:

    SCAPOLITE Group see also MARIALITE and WERNERITE
    Mizzonite = variety of MEIONITE (intermediate with MARIALITE and MEIONITE but with predominantly the last one.




  •  META-ANKOLEITE K2(UO2)2(PO4)2 6H2O

    LW: Green
    MW:
    SW: Green
    Comment:


  •  METALODEVITE Zn(UO2)2(AsO4)2 10H2O

    LW: Green
    MW:
    SW: Green
    Comment:


  •  MICROCLINE KAlSi3O8

    LW: Green
    MW: Blue
    SW: Red
    Comment:

    Green colored amazonite from Zinkgruvan Mines, Zinkgruvan, Askersund, Närke, Sweden, develop and enhance her green color in sunlight. Newly collected they are grey or only slightly green.




  •  MINEHILLITE (K,Na)2Ca28Zn5Al4Si40O112(OH)16

    LW: Blue
    MW: Blue
    SW: Blue
    Comment:

    Possible confusion with MARGAROSANITE wich is redder under MW.




  •  MONOHYDROCALCITE CaCO3 H2O

    LW: Green
    MW:
    SW: Green
    Comment:


  •  NASONITE Pb6Ca4Si6O21Cl2

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Yellowish White
    Comment:

    Henkel (after De Ment): blue luminescence (?)




  •  NEWBERYITE Mg(PO3OH) 3H2O

    LW: Yellow
    MW:
    SW: Yellow
    Comment:

    Luminescence maybe the result of Bat droppings! First reporting of the fluorescence of newberyite by De Ment in 1949 (pale blue under LW, nothing SW).




  •  NORBERGITE Mg3(SiO4)(F,OH)2

    LW: Orangy yellow
    MW: Yellow
    SW: Yellow
    Comment:


  •  OLIGOCLASE (Na,Ca)(Si,Al)408

    LW: Yellow
    MW:
    SW: Red
    Comment:


  •  OPALE SiO2 nH2O

    LW: Yellowish Green
    MW:
    SW: Yellowish Green
    Comment:


  •  OYELITE Ca10Si8B2O29 12,5H2O

    LW: White
    MW:
    SW: Violet
    Comment:

    Found in cavities of MANGANAXINITE in Franklin, New jersey, USA.




  •  PARGASITE NaCa2(Mg4Al)Si6Al2O22(OH)2

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Greenish
    Comment:


  •  pecto-prehnite / (mixture / mélange PECTOLITE + PREHNITE)

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Orange Red
    Comment:

    A white crystalline rock composed by a mixture of prehnite and pectolite found in the Franklin mine.Not a proper mineral name




  •  PECTOLITE NaCa2Si3O8(OH)

    LW: Yellowish White
    MW: Pink
    SW: Orange
    Comment:

    Luminescence of pectolite was noted in 1903 by Kunz and Baskerville.

    In Mt-St-Hilaire, Pectolite could be confused with Makatite. The major distinguishing feature is the fluorescence. While not all makatite fluoresces, when it does it is moderate to strong blueish white or very pale greenish SW (and sometimes LW as well) and pectolite is fluorescing in pink or orange.




  •  PHARMACOLITE Ca(HAsO4) 2H2O

    LW: White
    MW:
    SW: White
    Comment:


  •  PHLOGOPITE KMg3AlSi3O10(OH)2

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Yellow
    Comment:


  •  PICROPHARMACOLITE Ca4Mg(AsO4)2(HAsO3OH)2 11H2O

    LW: White
    MW:
    SW: White
    Comment:


  •  POWELLITE CaMoO4

    LW: Yellowish White
    MW:
    SW: Yellowish White
    Comment:

    The tungstates of calcium, strontium, magnesium and zinc, and the molybdates of calcium are known to show luminescence upon excitation by cathode rays or short-wave ultra-violet radiation. It is commonly assumed that this luminescence is characteristic of the tungstate and molybdate groups. The reason why other tungstates and molybdates are found to be non-luminescent is probably the temperature-quenching (see Nature article by F.  A. Kröger in 1947 in the bibliography).




  •  PREHNITE Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2

    LW: Yellowish White
    MW: Pale Yellow
    SW: Bluish White
    Comment:


  •  PYROMORPHITE Pb5(PO4)3Cl

    LW: Yellowish
    MW: Orangy yellow
    SW: Orange
    Comment:

    Variety: campylite (rounded crystals)




  •  QUARTZ SiO2

    LW: Yellow
    MW: Yellow
    SW: Yellow
    Comment:


  •  REINERITE Zn3(AsO3)2

    LW: Brownish Green
    MW:
    SW: Tawn
    Comment:


  •  RHODONITE (Mn+2,Fe+2,Mg,Ca)SiO3

    LW: Red
    MW:
    SW:
    Comment:


  •  ROEBLINGITE Pb2Ca6Mn+2(Si6O18)(SO4)2(OH)2 4H2O

    LW: Red
    MW:
    SW: Red
    Comment:


  •  SAMFOWLERITE Ca28Mn6Zn4(Be,Zn)4Be12(SiO4)12(Si2O7)8(OH)12

    LW: Red
    MW:
    SW: Red
    Comment:

    This is a hydroxyl calcium manganese zinc berylo-silicate from Franklin, NJ. It has been found in andradite lined vugs in franklinite, and in willemite ore. Fluorescence is weak red under SW and LW. .




  •  SCHEELITE CaWO4

    LW: Violet Pink
    MW: Red
    SW: Bluish White
    Comment:

    A very thin  coating of SCHEELITE on WOLFRAMITE makes it glow and give the impression that this mineral is luminescent.

    The tungstates of calcium, strontium, magnesium and zinc, and the molybdates of calcium are known to show luminescence upon excitation by cathode rays or short-wave ultra-violet radiation. It is commonly assumed that this luminescence is characteristic of the tungstate and molybdate groups. The reason why other tungstates and molybdates are found to be non-luminescent is probably the temperature-quenching (see Nature article by F.  A. Kröger in 1947 in the bibliography).




  •  SMITHSONITE ZnCO3

    LW: Violet
    MW: Violet blue
    SW: Violet red
    Comment:


  •  SPHALERITE (Zn,Fe)S

    LW: Orange
    MW: Orange
    SW: Orange
    Comment:

    synonyme: blende ; brunckite = colloïdal sphalerite  ;

    variety cleiophane: orange SW and LW;




  •  SPINELLE MgAl2O4

    LW: Red
    MW: Red
    SW: Red
    Comment:


  •  STARKEYITE MgSO4 4H2O

    LW: White
    MW: White
    SW: White
    Comment:


  •  STRONTIANITE SrCO3

    LW: Bluish White
    MW: Bluish White
    SW: Bluish White
    Comment:


  •  SVABITE Ca5(AsO4)3(F,OH)

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Orange
    Comment:

    Associated with dull red fluorescing tilasite in Langban.




  •  TALC Mg3Si4O10(OH)2

    LW: Yellowish White
    MW: Yellowish White
    SW: Yellowish White
    Comment:


  •  THOMSONITE-Ca Ca2Na[Al5Si5O20] 6H2O

    LW: Yellowish White
    MW:
    SW: Bluish
    Comment:

    Les échantillons étiquetés dans le passé comme calciothomsonite venant de franklin, New Jersey, USA sont en fait de la XONOTLITE




  •  TILASITE CaMg(AsO4)F

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Red
    Comment:

    Associated with orange fluorescing svabite in Langban;




  •  TITANITE CaTiSiO5

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Dark Orange /Tawn
    Comment:


  •  TREMOLITE XCa2Mg5Si8O22(OH)2

    LW: Orange
    MW:
    SW: Orange Red
    Comment:

    Gouverneur Talc Co, Balmat and Talcville: tremolite (fl. orange SW) associated with tirodite (fl.red SW) and talc (fl. yellow SW).




  •  troostite

    LW: Green
    MW:
    SW: Green
    Comment: Name sometime used for the big reddish-brown crystals of willemite coming from the Franklin Mine district.


  •  TURNEAUREITE Ca5(AsO4,PO4)3 Cl

    LW:
    MW:
    SW: Orangy yellow
    Comment:

    The arsenate analogue of Chlorapatite.

    The Ca analogue of Hedyphane.




  •  URANOSPINITE Ca(UO2)2(AsO4)2 10H2O

    LW: Green
    MW: Green
    SW: Green
    Comment:

    May dehydrate to metauranospinite.




  •  UVITE (Ca,Na)(Mg,Fe+2)3Al5Mg(BO3)3Si6O18(OH,F)4

    LW: Yellow
    MW:
    SW: Orangy yellow
    Comment:

    Bush Farm, Richville: uvite fl. yellow-orange SW associated with Diopside fl. bluish-white SW;




  •  vanuxemite

    LW: Tawn
    MW:
    SW: Yellowish White
    Comment:

    Mixture of SAUCONITE and HEMIMORPHITE.

    Pale to medium creamy yellow with slightly pink mottling due to hemimorphite and probably calcite intergrowth.




  •  voltzite / (mix of WURTZITE and organometalic zinc compound)

    LW: Orange
    MW:
    SW: Orange
    Comment:


  •  WILLEMITE Zn2SiO4

    LW: Green
    MW: Green
    SW: Green
    Comment:

    Willemite was first recognized in New Jersey in 1822, although it had evidently been mined there for many years before. It was then known as silicious oxide of zinc. The name willemite was applied by A. Lévy in 1880 to what afterwards proved to be the same mineral. His material was found in the Netherlands, and was named after Willem I (William I )(1772-1844), King of the Netherlands. It came from the small (less than 1,400 acres) neutral state of Moresnet situated between Prussia and Belgium (though the present kingdom of Belgium was not founded until that year--1830). Under the Treaty of Versailles (1919) it is now in Belgium. In this connexion it is interesting to recall that the name belgite has been suggested for this mineral. R. Panebianco, writing in esperanto in 1916, objected to naming minerals after kings, preferring a name derived from the locality. He, however, overlooked the fact that the locality was not, at that time, in Belgium !

    From: South African occurrences of willemite. Fluorescence of willemite and some other zinc minerals in ultra-violet rays. By L. J. Spencer, Keeper of Minerals in the British Museum (Natural History). 1927

     

    The occurrenee of willemite at Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia was first recorded by Prof. H. Buttgenbach in 1919 (H. Buttgenbach. La calamine des ossements fossiles de Broken-Hill, (Rhodésie). Ann. Soc. Géol. Relgique, 1919 vol. 42)

     

    Troostite : willémite containing manganese ;
    Beta-willemite nom erroné appliqué a une variété trouvée à Franklin-Sterling Hill et fluorescente en jaune ;
    Certains échantillons de Brandtite fluorescents en vert OC devraient leur fluorescence à la willemite associée ;

     

    Prior to the development of halophosphor in 1942, the first generation of phosphor used in fluorescent tube was  synthetic willemite activated with manganese-II. 




  •  WOLLASTONITE CaSiO3

    LW: Yellow
    MW: Orangy yellow
    SW: Orangy yellow
    Comment:

    From the White Knob quarry in the San Berardino Mts. CA, remarkable examples of orange or yellow-orange fluorescing wollastonite SW in blocky sections with orange-red fl. calcite SW and also red-fluorescing feldspar (species unidentified) of unusually high brightness. Information and help from Howard Brown and Lyman Hayes. Activator: Mn with Pb as coactivator?? Activator: probably Mn2+ substituting to Ca2+; also Fe3+ and Cr3+ found (Gaft).

    In Jakobsberg, Sweden, wolastonite and margarosanite replace barysilite (see picture by Kjell Gatedal in bibliography )




  •  XONOTLITE Ca6Si6O17(OH)2

    LW: Bluish White
    MW: Violet
    SW: Bluish White
    Comment:


  •  ZINCITE (Zn,Mn+2)O

    LW: Greenish Yellow
    MW: Greenish Yellow
    SW: Greenish Yellow
    Comment:

    Origin of artificial Zincite on the market: a factory near Olkusz, Katowice, Schlesien, Poland




  •  ZIRCON ZrSiO4

    LW: Pale Yellow
    MW: Orangy yellow
    SW: Orangy yellow
    Comment:

    Variété alvite (contenant du Hf, Th et des terres rares: OC et LW: vert; SW: Rouge-orangé;
    Variété cyrtolite (zircon partiellement métamicte contenant U et souvent Th et des terres rares: OC: jaune;
    variété malacon (zircon très métamicte, souvent brun: OL: orange; 
    Zircon is ometimes thermoluminescent




  •  ZNUCALITE CaZn11(UO2)(CO3)3(OH)2O 4H2O

    LW: Green
    MW:
    SW: Green
    Comment:

 

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