Database of luminescent Minerals

scapolite

Chemical Formula:See MEIONITE / (Group: MEIONITE, MARIALITE )

Familly: Silicates

Status:

Crystal System: Tetragonal

Mineral for Display: No

Luminescence:

Daylight Picture

SCAPOLITE;
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Short Waves Pictures (254nm)

SCAPOLITE;
UVSW
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Galerie de photos:

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

Ténébrescence: OUI

Main Activator(s) and spectrum:

Most Common Activator: Fe³⁺

Other activators:            Pb²⁺ , S₂^- , Eu²⁺ , Mn²⁺ , O^-₂ ,

Peaks in the spectrum (nm):

Fe³⁺? : band at 710 - 720nm

Mn²⁺ : broad band at 630 - 690nm

Comments on activators and spectra:

Red fluorescence: Fe³⁺? (band at 710 - 720nm)  Mn²⁺ (broad band at 630 - 690nm)

Blue fluorescence: Pb²⁺ (Langban, Sweden) 

A recent find of colorless scapolite in Badakhshan ( Afghanistan) turns to a blue color when exposed to UVSW.

Best Locality for luminescence(*):

• Karur, Tamilnadu, India;
• Madagascar (dull red);
• Cannon Inlet, Baffin Island, Nunavut (bright peach under MW);
• Nobel Pit, Sterling Hill Mine, Ogdensburg, New Jersey, USA (gray scapolite fl. medium crimson red SW associated with calcite fl.bright red SW);
• Limecrest Quarry in NJ. The Scapolite ( yellow LW, yellowish-white MW & SW);
• Diamond Lade Roadcut, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada ((green scapolite fl. medium crimson red SW associated with calcite fl.bright red SW);
• Marble occurrence, Morogoro, Uluguru Mts, Morogoro Region, Tanzania (red SW, dull blue LW));
• Langban, Filipstad, Varmland, Sweden (SW blue-white, blue);
• Bancroft area, Hastings Co., Ontario, Canada (orange-pink fluo);
• Yates mine, Otter Lake, Pontiac RCM, Outaouais, Québec, Canada (red SW);
• Mountain Top Trucking quarry, Torrington, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, USA (red SW);
• Valyermo, Holcomb Ridge, Los Angeles Co., California, USA (yellow LW);
• Maple Leaf, Monteagle Township, Hastings Co., Ontario, Canada (dull orange);
• Yates mine, Otter Lake, Pontiac RCM, Outaouais, Québec, Canada (dull pink);

(*)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 ,
• The World of Fluorescent Minerals, Stuart Schneider, Schiffer Publishing, 2006, ISBN 0-7643-2544-2 ,
• Luminescence Spectroscopy of Minerals and Materials, M. Gaft, R. Reisfeld, G. Panczer, Springer Editor, ISBN: 10 3-540-21918-8 ,
• Luminescent Spectra of Minerals, Boris S. Gorobets and Alexandre A. Rogojine, Moscow, 2002 ,

Luminescence Reference on internet:

• Marvelous Midwave, Jeffrey Shalli, UV-Waves, vol.39, November-December 2009
• MINERALOGICAL NOTES, THE X-RAY SPECTROGRAPHIC DETERMINATION OF SULPHUR COORDINATION IN SCAPOLITE, B. W.  Chappell and  J. R.  White, The American Mineralogist, VOL . 53 , SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1968
• Der Aufschluss, Vol.48, n°2 March/April 1997 Langban minerals by Fritz Blatter;




Image(s):




• Langban, Sweden: http://www.mindat.org/photo-208010.html
• Morogoro, Tanzania: http://www.mindat.org/photo-277961.html
• Morogoro, Tanzania: http://www.mindat.org/photo-280432.html
• Otter Lake, Québec, Canada : https://www.mindat.org/photo-803092.html

Mineralogical Reference on internet:

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

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

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