Pollucite : CSIRO Spectroscopy Database

Pollucite [ Cs(Si₂Al)O₆·nH₂O ]

Image of Pollucite

Pollucite from Paprok, Afghanistan. Galerie de Minéralogie et de Géologie du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle à Paris.

Photo by Marie-Lan Taÿ Pamart (via Wikimedia Commons), CC-BY 4.0

Material properties

Formula	Cs(Si₂Al)O₆·nH₂O
Abbreviation	Pol
Classifications	Minerals containing H2O, Zeolite (group)
Luminescence emitters	Fe, H2O, Mn, Tl, Triplet-singlet
Spectra	Reflectance (3)
IMA Status	Approved (IMA 1997 s.p.)
Search other databases	webmineral.com, mindat.org, rruf.info, fluomin.org, mineralienatlas.de, Handbook of Mineralogy, American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
Tags	Hydrated , Mineral, Aluminosilicate

Composition

Element	Atoms
Al	1
Si	3
Cs	1
O	6+n
H	2n

References for Pollucite

Kuznetsov and Tarashchan 1988

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Prokofiev et al. 1982

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CSIRO Reflectance 2025b

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Tarashchan 1978

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Specimens of Pollucite

Name	Owner	Materials	Image	Spectra	Techniques
M2101 Pollucite	CSIRO	Orthoclase, Pollucite, Quartz	M2101 Pollucite Image of Pollucite, Orthoclase and Quartz in specimen 'M2101 Pollucite' [CSIRO]. (C) 2026 CSIRO Mineral Resources. All rights reserved.	1	Reflectance
MES123 Pollucite	CSIRO	Orthoclase, Pollucite, Quartz	MES123 Pollucite Image of Pollucite, Orthoclase and Quartz in specimen 'MES123 Pollucite' [CSIRO]. (C) 2026 CSIRO Mineral Resources. All rights reserved.	1	Reflectance
MES204 Pollucite	CSIRO	Pollucite, Quartz	MES204 Pollucite Image of Pollucite and Quartz in specimen 'MES204 Pollucite' [CSIRO]. (C) 2026 CSIRO Mineral Resources. All rights reserved.	1	Reflectance
PSP_E Eucryptite / Quartz / Kaolinite	CSIRO	Cookeite, Eucryptite, Kaolinite, poorly crystalline, Pollucite, Quartz	PSP_E Eucryptite / Quartz / Kaolinite Image of Eucryptite, Cookeite, Kaolinite (var. poorly crystalline), Pollucite and Quartz in specimen 'PSP_E Eucryptite / Quartz / Kaolinite' [CSIRO]. (C) 2026 CSIRO Mineral Resources. All rights reserved.	1	Reflectance