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PostPosted: Aug 17, 2009 09:25    Post subject: Re: Preparing a list of light sensitive minerals - (14)  

Great job Matt!

I already revised the list, I added few infos and I cleaned some minor grammatical details. For me now the list is ready. We will wait for a while and if no one send more proposals or corrections, next Monday we will send it to Mindat as well as to the Spanish Forum (translated to Spanish language)

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PostPosted: Aug 27, 2009 12:51    Post subject: Re: Preparing a list of light sensitive minerals - (14)  

I have to say that I am more than a little uncomfortable about this project. It now seems that a very large proportion of the favorite minerals of collectors are included, and my feeling is that this will discourage many of the more timid collectors from buying these minerals. There certainly are varying degrees of risk involved. For example Brazilian amethyst is included yet I have had a piece in full sun for 10 days now and it hasn't changed at all. I have a control piece which was once connected to it so I can easily observe if there has been a change. I will continue to leave it in the sun for at least a month, but my guess is that it will not fade. The same may well be true of many of the other minerals on the list. Some colors can be restored, yet I see no mention of that fact. I have had a faceted yellow sapphire for 30 or more years, it has not faded. The Smithsonian has had a yellow diamond on display for 40 years or more, it has not faded. Same with Elmwood calcites, The old Red Cloud wulfenites at Harvard have not faded. Blue topazes from Zimbabwe have not faded. I am unaware of any tourmalines that have faded. On and on.

This seems an alarmist's list and I think it will do more harm that good. I can see listing those with a high probability of fading or darkening, but not those that are highly questionable, at least not without giving specific examples and reporting the condtions that are alleged to have caused the fading.

Also, opal crazes, I am not sure that it fades. It is not a variety of quartz, by the way. Then there is that old bugaboo selenite. The mineral is gypsum, even if sold as selenite.

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PostPosted: Aug 27, 2009 14:12    Post subject: Re: Preparing a list of light sensitive minerals - (14)  

John S. White wrote:
Then there is that old bugaboo selenite. The mineral is gypsum, even if sold as selenite.

Corrected. Now the former "Selenite" is "Gypsum".
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PostPosted: Aug 27, 2009 14:57    Post subject: Re: Preparing a list of light sensitive minerals - (14)  

I think John makes good points (list may be inaccurate or misleading; this may induce paranoia that is detrimental to the hobby). I have been thinking the same thing because putting together this list has made me paranoid about putting a lot of my stuff out on my shelves for display. One thing Howie does provide is four tables:
1) Light-induced color changes (~57 species)
2) Light-induced decomposition (8 species)
3) Light-accelerated surface reactions (~88 species).
4) Recommendations for light protection.

Under table 4, he has two divisions as follows:

A) Light protection usually required
Beryl v Maxixe
Brom(arg)yrite
Chlorargyrite
Cinnabar
Embolite
Ido(arg)yrite
Miersite
Proustite
Pyrargyrite
Realgar
Vivianite

B) Low light level suggested
Amber
Argentite
Beryl v Morganite
Celestite
Chalcocite
Cuprite
Lepidolite
Quartz v rose
Spodumene v Kunzite

With this table 4 I think he is trying to indicate that some minerals you should always worry about (table 4A); some minerals you should be careful with (table 4B), and other minerals may, but less frequently, have problems (not in table 4 but in the other tables). I think, by making these divisions, that Howie is trying to relate some of the complexity of this subject to his reader. But I don't think he has captured it because, among other things, he lacks locality specificity. I also am not sure about Howie's selection of minerals - shouldn't a nice gemmy vanadinite be on one of the table 4 lists?

All this suggests that what is required is a wiki produced by a group of knowledgeable people. Someone tells me that Elmwood calcites are light sensitive, so they ended up on the list. John comes back with a disagreement. A wiki process could proceed to iron out the competing assertions until what is left is what everyone can live with. Only a process that includes much collaboration can produce information that avoids the two problems John cites.
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PostPosted: Aug 30, 2009 11:22    Post subject: Re: Preparing a list of light sensitive minerals - (14)  

Matt_Zukowski wrote:
Only a process that includes much collaboration can produce information that avoids the two problems John cites.

I agree, but this is not so far of what we are doing here. I think that we always considered the list as a kind of draft to be submitted to Mindat where much more people could help to refine it.
Is my feeling that we never supposed to built a 'definitive' list but a proposal to be discussed. Submitting this proposed list, already refined comparing from the former one, and with the help of the members of Mindat, we can maybe built an useful tool. With his faults or advantages but at least much better than the previous 'desert', without good informations about it.

BTW and before to submit our list to Mindat, not more additions or corrections? Alfredo, you can do a fabulous job with this list considering your knowledge level. Could you help?

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PostPosted: Sep 22, 2009 10:10    Post subject: Re: Preparing a list of light sensitive minerals - (14)  

My amethyst after a month in the sun (in Pennsylvania!) The pieces were once attached. The one on the left is the piece exposed to the sun, the other is my control piece kept in the dark.


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PostPosted: Sep 22, 2009 11:43    Post subject: Re: Preparing a list of light sensitive minerals - (14)  

Oh, I see John.
These are the trimmin's from your "owl eyes" in/on amethyst that you posted a little while ago. Good material to work with. So you'll post a photo for comparison every now and again? I like it! We could even help. A six-month exposure to Arizona summer sunlight should prove interesting, maybe even bake it to citrine, eh? This is a good experiment. I'm sure Les Presmyk will volunteer to put the amethyst up on his rooftop for a while sometime after Tucson 2010, maybe return it at the following Denver show, if it should survive the stultifying Phoenix heat.

In the meantime, we can periodically follow it's progress there in the Pennsylvania sunlight. You might have to bring it inside for the winter though....

Hope Denver was good to you.

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PostPosted: Sep 23, 2009 04:38    Post subject: Re: Preparing a list of light sensitive minerals - (14)  

Hi Ed:

It is my intention to leave it out for quite a long time, the ice and snow will not really harm it. Your suggestion of passing it on to Les is a good one and I will consider it. Certainly the Arizona sun will prove a better test than what we get here.

Denver was a fine show, as usual, and I managed to add one single crystal to that part of my collection and four very nice quartzes to my quartz collection. Will try for some photos.

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PostPosted: Sep 26, 2009 17:54    Post subject: Re: Preparing a list of light sensitive minerals - (14)  

nurbo wrote:
Update ... Ive had the Flluorite in the sun for over 2 months now and no sign of any colour change when compared to a control piece I keep in an envelope in a cool cellar.
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PostPosted: Nov 18, 2009 09:05    Post subject: Re: Preparing a list of light sensitive minerals - (14)  

My amethyst has been out in the sun for three months now and there is no perceptable change in color when directly compared with the control sample.
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PostPosted: Nov 18, 2009 18:03    Post subject: Re: Preparing a list of light sensitive minerals - (14)  

Hi all,

After some time and while we wait the results of the experiment John is carrying out, why not trying to refine all your contributions to the light sensitive minerals list. Give me a couple of days to read the thread completely and I will be able to suggest you a simple way to make a short list with only the minerals most of you consider light sensitive ("A" list). The rest of the above mentioned minerals we can put into another "B" list: low level of sensitivity).

Of course the target is to shorten the list in order to make it useful. I suppose that knowledge based on your own experience will be better (than rumors, readings, etc).

At the end I have explained what I pretend. But, please, give me a bit of time.

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PostPosted: Nov 19, 2009 03:00    Post subject: Re: Preparing a list of light sensitive minerals - (14)  

Good idea Antonio, is the way to make useful this thread!

If finally we can build two reliable lists of light sensitive minerals, then I will publish both lists in a special post to be used as a reference and, as agreed, I will submit them to Mindat as well as to the Spanish Forum (translated)

I wait for more news, I were disappointed for the current status of this exciting thread, so thanks for the initiative.

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PostPosted: Nov 21, 2009 06:04    Post subject: Re: Preparing a list of light sensitive minerals - (14)  

Come on.

First of all, I think I am speaking in everybody's name thanking Matt his efforts in this thread to make a comprehensive list of all the light sensitive minerals. I hope not to bother him or anybody starting from his excellent work. We all can make a list of actually light sensitive minerals including the rest -minerals under suspicion- on another list. I suggest one short "A" list and a complete and detailed "B" list with the rest.

Thanks, Jordi for your support and encouragement.

We can use the Matt's final and complete list located on the page number 2 in this same thread. I don't think it necessary to reproduce the list here. Please, send me via mp or publish in a new post your short list with only the minerals you have the experience or knowledge of undergoing changes in sunlight. I will adding your contributions to an agreed list trying to make a short one. As mentioned above, the rest of minerals (whose light sensivity is discussed) will appear on the large "B" list.

During the process I will ask your amendments and corrections to the list.

When in doubt please do not include the species on your short list. It is a very important topic, so let's work hard and do a good job.

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PostPosted: Nov 21, 2009 11:48    Post subject: Re: Preparing a list of light sensitive minerals - (14)  

John, your amethyst hasn't changed colour because there's hardly any sunshine in Pennsylvania. You should bring it out here to Palm Springs, California, and watch it fade while you get darker (yes, we should add Homo sapiens to the light-induced colour changes list ;))

More seriously, shouldn't brown topaz be on the list too? I only know the ones from Thomas Range, Utah, and Tanakamiyama, Japan, but both of those are very light sensitive and will invariably lose their brown colour on exposure. Other localities - I'm not sure.

On the other hand, I disagree about rose quartz - not sensitive to light at all.

Chalcocite: Is this really a light-induced change? Or just exposure to air? I think chalcocites often alter even in the dark.

Vivianite: I wrote an article once claiming that ALL vivianite is light-sensitive, but then a Canadian curator wrote in disagreement, claiming that the vivianite from Big Fish river, Yukon, was stable. At first I did not believe this, but on comparing chemical analyses of vivianites from around the world I notice that Yukon vivianite is much lower in the unstable Fe(II) than other vivianites, with about a third of its Fe atom positions filled by Mg instead, so perhaps it's true that Yukon vivianite is more resistant to light than others.
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PostPosted: Nov 21, 2009 14:32    Post subject: Re: Preparing a list of light sensitive minerals - (14)  

I would move to the list 'B' the following especies:

Aragonite (w/ color)
Celestine (blue)
Corundum (yellow)
Crocoite
Diamond (various colors)
Pink halite from Searles lake is colored by halophylic bacteria and algae that fade with exposure to sunlight.
Inesite
Quartz (most colored quartz are light sensitive)
- Amethyst (especially Brazilian amethyst)*
- Citrine
- Morion
- Rose Quartz*
- Smoky Quartz
- Various Agates
Opal
Scapolite (violet)
Sodalite (blue)*
- Hackmanite (salmon/pink)*
Spinel (red)
Spodumene
- Hiddenite
- Kunzite
Tourmaline (some pink, red)
Wulfenite
Zircon

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PostPosted: Nov 21, 2009 23:32    Post subject: Re: Preparing a list of light sensitive minerals - (14)  

does anyone know if the Ouro Prêto purple topaz is color stable?
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PostPosted: Nov 22, 2009 07:24    Post subject: Re: Preparing a list of light sensitive minerals - (14)  

I believe they are color stable.

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PostPosted: Nov 22, 2009 16:00    Post subject: Re: Preparing a list of light sensitive minerals - (14)  

Hi

I've take a look to "The Care and Conservation of Geological Material" by Frank M. Howie and try to find more minerals concerned but the list coincides with that from Matt.

What I knew about the Spodumene was that it turns pink into Kunzite not the opposite, but I can be wrong....

Rusian brown topaz is very light sensitive.

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PostPosted: Nov 29, 2009 05:30    Post subject: Re: Preparing a list of light sensitive minerals - (14)  

Here I am. Following the last Jordi's suggestion, I have moved the species he mentions to the B list.

Please, contribute to refine the A list, the original Matt's list located on page 2. It is still so long.

B list. Minerals less light sensitive

Aragonite (w/ color)

Celestine (blue to colorless)

Corundum (yellow)

Crocoite (red to brownish)

Diamond (various colors)

Pink halite from Searles lake is colored by halophylic bacteria and algae that fade with exposure to sunlight

Inesite (redish to whitish)

Quartz

- Amethyst (especially Brazilian amethyst)
- Citrine
- Morion
- Rose Quartz
- Smoky Quartz
- Various Agates
- Opal

Scapolite (violet)

Sodalite (blue)

- Hackmanite (salmon/pink)

Spinel (red)

Spodumene

- Hiddenite
- Kunzite

Tourmaline (some pink, red)

Wulfenite

Zircon


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PostPosted: Jan 08, 2010 14:48    Post subject: Re: Preparing a list of light sensitive minerals - (14)  

Closing in on 6 months in the sun, my amethyst has yet to show any loss of color. However, there have been days when it was obscured from the sun by a coating of another mineral, subsequently removed through careful treatment with a broom.


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