Fluorescence

Some important tools to assist you in the identification of species at Mont Saint-Hilaire are the light properties of minerals. In the following tables, you will find the species that do fluoresce or phosphoresce under different lights.

 

 

 

 

– Fluorescence Table –

 Mineral species Properties*
SW LW
Albite cherry-red
Analcime1 green green
Burbankite1 pink
Calcite white & red white & red
Catapleiite1 green

 

green
Cerussite pink-yellow pink-yellow
Clinoptilolite-K light green
Cryolite bluish white
Elpidite1 yellow & green
Elpidite yellow & green yellow & green
Fluoroapatite blue pinkish blue
Fluoroapophyllite1 green yellow
Fluorite1 violet blue violet blue
Franconite yellowish white yellow-white


Genthelvite crystals under SW

Gaidonnayite2 green green
Gaultite2 bright apple green
Genthelvite green green
Gonnardite pinkish white pinkish white
Griceite1 pale yellow
Gypsum orange-yellow orange-yellow
Helvite deep red deep red
Hydrozincite white white
Kogarkoite pale blue white
Leucophanite pink pink
Leucosphenite

 

yellowish white
Lorenzenite pale yellow
Magadiite yellow-white yellow-white
Makatite pale green yellow-white
Meionite yellow-white red
Microcline cherry-red
Milarite bluish white
Monteregianite-(Y) green
Natrolite1 pale green greenish white
Parakeldyshite orange-white
Pectolite pink orange-pink
Polylithionite lemon yellow
Quartz5 yellow-orange yellow-orange
Remondite-(Ce)4    
Scheelite whitish blue
Searlesite bluish green
Sodalite3 (pink) orange orange
Sodalite (pink) yellowish white yellowish white
Sodalite1 (blue) orange red
Sphalerite yellow-orange yellow-orange
Strontianite white white
Terskite yellowish white yellowish white
Thornasite apple green apple green
Tugtupite3 red red
Villiaumite red
Vuonnemite1 greenish yellow pale yellow
Willemite green green
Wurtzite-2H   red
Wurtzite-4H   orange
Zircon1 yellow-orange
  Notes
*Light wavelength: SW = shortwave; LW = longwave
Intensities: bold = strong; bold italic = strong or weak; and normal = weak
1 = not all fluorescent
2 = some not fluorescent
3 = reversible photochromic
4 = photochromic
5 = fluorescent zones in some
 

 

– Phosphorescence Table –

 Mineral species Properties*
SW LW
Genthelvite green
Sodalite3 (pink) yellowish-white
Sodalite6 (pink) yellowish-white yellowish-white
Tugtupite3 pink
Vuonnemite1 bluish green
Willemite green
  Notes
*Light wavelength: SW = shortwave; LW = longwave
Intensities: bold = strong; bold italic = strong or weak; and normal = weak
1 = not all fluorescent
2 = some not fluorescent
3 = reversible photochromic
4 = photochromic
5 = fluorescent zones in some
6 = very weakly reversible; LW continuously