anyolite

 


Chemical formula: See rubis

Family: Rock

Status: NA

Display mineral: OUI

 

Luminescence:

Longwave UV (365nm) colors:

    


Red ,

Midwave UV (320nm) colors:

    


Red ,

Shortwave UV (254nm) colors:

    


Red ,

 

Do you have a photo of this mineral you would like to see in the gallery? Contact us!

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:

 Anyolite is a metamorphic rock discovered in 1954 in Tanzania and composed of intergrown green zoisite (chrome-zoïsite), black/dark green pargasite (erroneously identified as tschermakite), and ruby.

The term anyolite is not an officially accepted term for a metamorphic rock.

It is said to be named after the Maasai word anyoli, meaning green. Anyolite is also referred to as ruby in zoisite or Tanganyika artstone.

Activator(s) and spectrum:

No data

No spectrum yet

Best localities for fluorescence (*):

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

Bibliographic reference for luminescence:

Reference for luminescence on the Internet:

Images:

 

Mineralogical reference on the Internet:

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

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

Internet Search:

  Image search on 'Google Images'

  Search for documents in all languages on Google

  Search on Wikipedia

Note: While all due attention has been paid to the implementation of the database, it may contain errors and/or accidental omissions. By nature, the database will always be incomplete because science always evolves according to new analysis.
A request providing no result means only that no such reference exists in the database, but it does not mean that what you are looking for does not exist, just not to our knowledge. If you think you have found an error or omission, please let us know via the contact page being sure to cite the source of information.