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Fluorescent Mineral Photo Gallery

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Adamite, Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico

This is an exceptionally bright fluorescent adamite specimen from the Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Under visible light,...

Hanksite, Searles Lake, Trona, California

This is a pair of intergrown, barrel-shaped hanksite crystals, from Searles Lake, Trona, San Bernardino Co., California. The hanksite...

Calcite, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois

Wheat sheaf bundles of parallel growth calcite crystals on a yellow/brown fluorite matrix, from Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois. ...

Purple Hackmanite - Afghanistan

If you like fluorescent rocks you will really like this. I recently purchased a flat of top grade extreme color changing hackmanite mine...

Colemanite, Bigadic Mine, Turkey

Though not a stunning fluorescent material, Colemanite is typically quite bright and sometimes phosphorescent. This specimen, from the...

From a Belgian karst region: calcite

Belgium has quite a few calcite quarries that yield fluorescent specimens. There's one at Chanxhes, near Liège, in the Liège Province....

Scapolite, Valyermo, California

California has a wide variety of minerals from a wide variety of locales. Here is a scapolite from Valyermo, in the High Desert area of...

Calcite Crystals, Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Iowa

This is a large cluster of transparent, modified rhombohedral calcite crystals on limestone matrix. It was collected in 2016 from the...

Fluorescent Afghanite Crystals on Calcite, from Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan

This is a spectacular and unique fluorescent specimen that has a lot going on under every UV wavelength. It perhaps shows the greatest...

Barite Crystals, Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Iowa

This is a large cluster of intergrown, prismatic, light golden/smoky colored barite crystals, on a minimal limestone matrix. It was...

Pastel Sodalite and Ussingite - Tunuliarfik Greenland

This is a large 7x3x2.5" specimen of interesting Sodalite & Ussingite from Tunuliarfik Greenland. It exhibits an unusual pastel...

Terlingua Calcite- Terlingua, Texas

Terlingua calcite is one of the most spectacular and beautiful fluorescent minerals due to its bright, multi-colored, multi-wave,...

Some fishy inclusions: Quartz

These petroleum and tar inclusions look like tropical fish... The larger green and brown inclusion (white light) are real. All the others...

The good Samariumitan's Aragonite

Samarium drives the fluorescence of this aragonite/calcite. It's more of a mix, phases of the carbonates, rather than any pure mineral....

Tremolite and Anthophyllite, Balmat, New York

Foliated layers of needle-like crystals of light pink tremolite and intergrown anthophyllite, from Balmat, St. Lawrence County, New York....

Topaz, var. pycnite

A large specimen with columnar crystals of this topaz variety. The fluorescence is medium to weak but still very visible. Photo in LW-UV....

Sulfur from Michigan, Maybee it’s fluorescent, Maybee not…

It has been reported that crystals of sulfur from Maybee, Michigan, occasionally show weak yellow fluorescence under UV (Robbins,...

Afghanite

Fluoresces orange due to the disulfide ion. Exactly the same activator as with sodalite, meionite var. Wernerite, nosean, hauyne and...

Quartz owl

Concentric rings in spheres of acicular quartz. Photo under combined LW and MW-UV (both fluorescence photos) and under white light....

Strontianite, Winfield, Pennsylvania

Radiating clusters of acicular crystals of off-white colored strontianite from the Winfield Quarry, Winfield, Union Co., Pennsylvania. ...