Database of luminescent Minerals

BAYLEYITE

Chemical Formula: Mg₂(UO₂)(CO₃)₃ 18H₂O

Familly: Carbonates

Status: IMA-GP

Crystal System: Monoclinic

Mineral for Display: No

Luminescence:

Daylight Picture

Bayleyite,
Hideout #1 mine, White Canyon district,
San Juan County, Utah, USA
Photo and Copyright: Paul M. Schumacher
Site of the author
Used with permission of the author

Short Waves Pictures (254nm)

Bayleyite UVSW,
Hideout #1 mine, White Canyon district,
San Juan County, Utah, USA
Photo and Copyright: Paul M. Schumacher
Site of the author
Used with permission of the author

Phosphorescence (in the common meaning of the term) seen by naked eye:

Main Activator(s) and spectrum:

Most Common Activator: (UO₂)²⁺ (Uranyl ion) intrinsic

Best Locality for luminescence(*):

• Hillside mine, Arizona, USA;
• Hideout #1 mine, White Canyon district, San Juan County, Utah, USA;
• Mi Vida Mine, Big Indian Mining District, San Juan Co., Utah, USA;
• Poison Canyon Mine, Poison Canyon area, McKinley Co., New Mexico, USA;
• Plavno mine, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic;
• Lichtenberg open cast, Ronneburg U deposit, Thuringia, Germany;
• Paliokamariza Mine No. 18, Paliokamariza Mines, Plaka, Lavrion mining district, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece;
• Mina Eureka termino de Castell-estaó, municipio de La Torre de Cabdella, Lérida province, Spain;
• Gerstenegg-Grimsel cable tunnel, Gerstenegg, Guttannen, Interlaken-Oberhasli, Bern, Switzerland;
• Azegour Mine, Azgour, Tata Province, Souss-Massa Region, Morocco;
• Ambrosia Lake Sub-district, Grants District, McKinley Co., New Mexico, USA;

(*)Data are not exhaustive and are limited to the most important localities for fluorescence

Bibliographical 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 ,
• Uranium minerals Website: http://www.uraniumminerals.com ,
• Introduction to radioactive minerals, Robert Lauf, Schiffer Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7643-2912-8 ,

Luminescence Reference on internet:

• Joan Abella i Creus
• Systematic Mineralogy of Uranium and Thorium, Clifford Frondel, p113
• http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bayleyite.pdf

 

Images:

 

• Ambrosia Lake Mining Sub-district, McKinley Co., New Mexico, USA: https://www.mindat.org/photo-555214.html
• Mi Vida Mine, San Juan Co., Utah, USA: https://www.mindat.org/photo-1011225.html

Mineralogical Reference on internet:

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

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

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