The zircons from Mingxi of Fujian Province assumes colorless, grayish brown and light blue after heat treatment. A process of heating and irradiation was designed to tackle them. The colors and their variations were studied by UV-NIR spectrometer. The formation mechanism of the zircon colors were discussed on the basis of experiments. It is shown that the brown color of the zircon is caused by color-center, and that the light blue color is attributed to Fe~(2+)Fe~(3+) intervalence charge transfer, which contributes to the beauty enhancement of the zircons.
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汤德平 李湘祁,2004,福建明溪锆石的呈色机理研究[J].岩石矿物学杂志,23(1):61~64. TANG De-ping, LI Xiang-qi,2004,The colors of zircons from Mingxi, Fujian Province, and its formation mechanism[J]. Acta Petrologica et Mineralogica,23(1):61~64.