Some important tools to assist you in the identification of species at Mont Saint-Hilaire are the light properties of minerals. In the following tables, you will find the species that do fluoresce or phosphoresce under different lights.
– Fluorescence Table –
| Mineral species | Properties* | ||
| SW | LW | ||
| Albite | cherry-red | ||
| Analcime1 | green | green | |
| Burbankite1 | pink | ||
| Calcite | white & red | white & red | |
| Catapleiite1 | green
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green | |
| Cerussite | pink-yellow | pink-yellow | |
| Clinoptilolite-K | light green | ||
| Cryolite | bluish white | ||
| Elpidite1 | yellow & green | ||
| Elpidite | yellow & green | yellow & green | |
| Fluoroapatite | blue | pinkish blue | |
| Fluoroapophyllite1 | green | yellow | |
| Fluorite1 | violet blue | violet blue | |
| Franconite | yellowish white | yellow-white | |
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| Gaidonnayite2 | green | green | |
| Gaultite2 | bright apple green | ||
| Genthelvite | green | green | |
| Gonnardite | pinkish white | pinkish white | |
| Griceite1 | pale yellow | ||
| Gypsum | orange-yellow | orange-yellow | |
| Helvite | deep red | deep red | |
| Hydrozincite | white | white | |
| Kogarkoite | pale blue | white | |
| Leucophanite | pink | pink | |
| Leucosphenite
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yellowish white | ||
| Lorenzenite | pale yellow | ||
| Magadiite | yellow-white | yellow-white | |
| Makatite | pale green | yellow-white | |
| Meionite | yellow-white | red | |
| Microcline | cherry-red | ||
| Milarite | bluish white | ||
| Monteregianite-(Y) | green | ||
| Natrolite1 | pale green | greenish white | |
| Parakeldyshite | orange-white | ||
| Pectolite | pink | orange-pink | |
| Polylithionite | lemon yellow | ||
| Quartz5 | yellow-orange | yellow-orange | |
| Remondite-(Ce)4 | |||
| Scheelite | whitish blue | ||
| Searlesite | bluish green | ||
| Sodalite3 (pink) | orange | orange | |
| Sodalite (pink) | yellowish white | yellowish white | |
| Sodalite1 (blue) | orange | red | |
| Sphalerite | yellow-orange | yellow-orange | |
| Strontianite | white | white | |
| Terskite | yellowish white | yellowish white | |
| Thornasite | apple green | apple green | |
| Tugtupite3 | red | red | |
| Villiaumite | red | ||
| Vuonnemite1 | greenish yellow | pale yellow | |
| Willemite | green | green | |
| Wurtzite-2H | red | ||
| Wurtzite-4H | orange | ||
| Zircon1 | yellow-orange | ||
| Notes | |||
| *Light wavelength: SW = shortwave; LW = longwave Intensities: bold = strong; bold italic = strong or weak; and normal = weak 1 = not all fluorescent 2 = some not fluorescent 3 = reversible photochromic 4 = photochromic 5 = fluorescent zones in some  |
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| Mineral species | Properties* | |
| SW | LW | |
| Genthelvite | green | |
| Sodalite3 (pink) | yellowish-white | |
| Sodalite6 (pink) | yellowish-white | yellowish-white |
| Tugtupite3 | pink | |
| Vuonnemite1 | bluish green | |
| Willemite | green | |
| Notes | ||
| *Light wavelength: SW = shortwave; LW = longwave Intensities: bold = strong; bold italic = strong or weak; and normal = weak 1 = not all fluorescent 2 = some not fluorescent 3 = reversible photochromic 4 = photochromic 5 = fluorescent zones in some 6 = very weakly reversible; LW continuously | ||