Phlogopite : CSIRO Spectroscopy Database

Phlogopite

Images

Photograph of phlogopite on calcite, from Pakistan

© Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.

UV photoluminescence image of phlogopite on calcite, from Pakistan

© Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of phlogopite (orange) from ZCA Mine, West Pierrepont, NY. Size: 10cm

© Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.

Photograph of a specimen of Phlogopite from ZCA Mine, West Pierrepont, NY

© Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of phlogopite from ZCA Mine, West Pierrepont, NY. Size: 10cm

© Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.

Phlogopite specimen from Sydenham (near), Ontario, Canada

© Photo by Burton Litman, via Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Photograph of a specimen of phlogopite from ZCA Mine, West Pierrepont, NY. Size: 10cm

© Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.

Properties

Formula	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂
Abbreviation	Phl
Classification	Biotite
Luminescence emitters	Mn, OH, TiO6, Unspecified
Spectra	Reflectance (3)
IMA Status	Grandfathered (pre-IMA), 1841
Search other databases	webmineral.com, mindat.org, rruf.info, fluomin.org, mineralienatlas.de, Handbook of Mineralogy, American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
Crystal symmetry	Monoclinic
Tags	Hydroxide , Mineral, Aluminosilicate

Composition

Element	Atoms
K	1
Al	1
Si	3
O	12
H	2
Mg	3
Total:	22

References

Reference	Lines	Spectra	Images
Gorobets and Rogojine 2002	4	0	0
Hamblen 2003	0	0	6
Pejcic et al. 2021 (EP2021-1148)	0	3	0
Ryskin 1974	1	0	0