Bromellite

Image

Agregate of large cm-size transparent, colourless and slightly yellowish crystals of bromellite cemented by white, granular, sugar-like phenakite masse and surrounded by crust of olive-green chrysoberyl. From the Malyshevskoe deposit, Izumrudnye Kopi area

© Photo by Pavel M. Kartashov (via Wikimedia Commons), CC-BY-SA 3.0

Properties

Formula BeO
Abbreviation Bmel
Luminescence emitter O
IMA Status Grandfathered (pre-IMA), 1925
Search other databases webmineral.com, mindat.org, rruf.info, fluomin.org, mineralienatlas.de, Handbook of Mineralogy, American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
Crystal symmetry Hexagonal, Point group 6mm, Space group P63mc (#186)
Tags Mineral, Simple oxide

Composition

Element Atoms
Be 1
O 1
Total: 2

Reference

Reference Lines Spectra Images
Gorobets and Prokofiev 1981 2 0 0