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Fluorescent Mineral Photo Gallery
Minerals that are fluorescent under shortwave, midwave, and/or longwave UV from around the world. Each database entry shows white light photos along with UV photos, as well as localities and descriptions. Use the index to search for specific minerals, or fluorescent minerals from a region. If this page is entered via the index, the results are filtered.
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Afghanistan Minerals - New Identifications
There have been several posts in our Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/fluorescentminerals) recently identifying some of...
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2017 FMS Midwest Chapter Annual Meeting
by Chris Clemens chris@uvminerals.org The Midwest Chapter of the Fluorescent Mineral Society (FMS) held its first annual meeting at the...
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The Fluorescent Minerals of Greenland
The Ilímaussaq complex is one of the world's most fascinating igneous complexes. The abundance of rare elements has resulted in more than...
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Helvetia Trip Report
Originally published in UV Waves, the bi-monthly publication from the Fluorescent Mineral Society. Helvetia. Just the name conjures up...
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Report from the (2018) Tucson mineral shows (excluding the TGMS show)
Glenn Waychunas Mar 1, 2018 Normally I do not send around a report, but now that I have some responsibility with the FMS, I consider it a...
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Are rubies *always* fluorescent? Have you ever seen one not fluoresce? What about rubies from Madaga
[NOTE: This is an archive of a Facebook post with a great discussion about the fluorescence of rubies] "The chromium present in ruby...
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Agate from Scott's Gulf, Smyrna, Tennessee
8/31/17 - A major component of rock collecting (for me) is simply getting out in nature. A buddy dragged me out to a very remote area...
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Franklin Super Diggg 2017, Trip Report
by Chris Clemens 6/8/17 The promise of this year’s Super Diggg on April 29th was too tempting to resist- over six million pounds of Mill...
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Collecting Fluorescent Minerals - The Basics, Where to Find Them, and How to Collect Them
Fluorescent minerals are found almost anywhere there is a good selection of white light minerals. Mine dumps/tailing piles are obviously gr
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Greenland Sodalite Hackmanite - Quick Change Artist, Tenebrescent Champion
Tenebrescence of Greenland sodalite is amazing. This is a piece of a deeply tenebrescent sodalite. Note how when the SW light is first...
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How Hot Are Your Rocks? Radioactivity in Uranyl-Activated Fluorescent Minerals
by Chris Clemens Introduction: Uranyl-activated green fluorescence is one of the most common fluorescent responses seen under UV light. ...
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Hyalite (opal-AN) specimens from Hungary, Zemplén, Tarcal
I made a tribute to Hyalites from Hungary, Zemplén, Tarcal. Specimens are shown in normal, UV-C and some in UV-A light. All frames are...
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Not all Adamite is Created Equal…
…at least not in terms of fluorescence. As is the case with many fluorescent minerals, different specimens of the same mineral species...
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The Definitive Guide to Franklin/Sterling Hill Wollastonite
A regularly recurring question in our Facebook Fluorescent Mineral Group is the differences between the various wollastonites found the...
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Crack that Rock!!! (You never know what's inside)
Seems to go without saying for most experienced fluorescent mineral collectors; rocks that sit exposed to the elements for millennia ...
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The Fluorescence of Elemental Sulfur- Real or Perceived Phenomenon?
Mark Cole: There was a post in the fluorescent mineral group about sulfur fluorescing a dull green under SW on a piece of calcite from...
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