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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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Fluorescent Clam Fossil from Ruck's Pit, Fort Drum, Florida
This is a fluorescent, Pleistocene age (approx. 1-2 mya) Mercenaria permagna clam fossil from the famous Rucks' Pit site in Fort Drum,...
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Brightly Fluorescent and Radioactive Andersonite from Utah
Brightly fluorescent andersonite with a minor metamunirite druse, from the D Day #2 Mine, Yellow Cat District, Grand County, Utah. ...
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Happy Holidays! Christmas Calcite from the Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, New Jersey
This is a classic specimen of "Christmas Calcite" from the Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, New Jersey. This material contains...
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Terlingua-Type Calcite from an Uncommon Midwestern Location- Indianapolis, Indiana
This is an unusual specimen of pink to white colored cleavage rhombs of calcite on limestone matrix, that show a Terlingua-type...
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Orange Fluorescent Sphalerite, Balmat, New York
This specimen contains light colored veins and masses of sphalerite in a dark matrix, from Balmat, St. Lawrence Co., New York. The...
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Fluorite from the Rogerley Mine, Weardale, Co. Durham, England
Gemmy, green cubes of fluorite with minor non-fluorescent galena on a light brown matrix, from the source of some of the most beautiful...
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Multicolored Birdseye Sphalerite Set, Balmat, NY
Here is a set of three different Birdseye Sphalerite pieces from the Zinc Corporation of America Mine #4 in Balmat, NY. This sphalerite...
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Anthophyllite, Talc, Tremolite - Talcville, NY
A number of these pieces from an old 60s collection hit the market over the last year. This is one of the more interesting examples. It...
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Calcite Crystals in a Septarian Nodule from Grayson County, Texas
Lovely bright pale yellow fluorescent calcite crystals in a septarian nodule found in Grayson County, Texas. Calcite crystals within a...
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Sterling Hill Fluorescent Zincite
As I've posted before, I am a big fan of powerful, true 365nm UV light from LED flashlights. It allows me to find stuff that is...
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Not exactly rare but rarely seen yellow-fluorescing Calcite from Sterling Hill, NJ
At Sterling Hill, most collectors highly favor searching with short wave UV, ignoring long wave almost entirely. That's too bad because...
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A Midwestern Beauty: Multi-Wave Calcite Crystals, Sweetwater Mine, Reynolds County, Missouri
This is a cluster of milky white calcite crystals from the Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri,...
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Chameleon Agate from the Granite Mountains, Wyoming
Agate/chalcedony nodule from the Granite Mountains, Fremont County, Wyoming, that shows a unique multi-colored fluorescent response...
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Molybdosodalite, Naples Italy
An obscure specimen of Molybdosodalite (with vugs) from Naples Italy. The clear crystals appear to be NF and are just reflecting the glow...
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Popcorn Barite, Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Iowa
A plate of off-white barite crystals on a limestone matrix, from the Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Scott Co., Iowa. This particular material is...
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Fluorite Cubes on Calcite, Pint's Quarry, Raymond, Iowa
Scalenohedral calcite crystals with minor marcasite and small, brown/amber, cubic fluorite crystals, on limestone matrix. From Pint's...
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Emerald Green Sodalite from Greenland
Obscure "Emerald Green" Sodalite found on the north shore of the Tunulliarik Fjord, right above "Sodalite Beach" and where the bright...
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Sterling Hill Sphalerite, Willemite, Franklinite, Talc, ex Marian Reitenbaugh collection
Honey-brown sphalerite with reddish brown willemite, black franklinite, greenish grey talc, and minor dark greenish brown serpentine (at...
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Fluorescent Quartz, Cato Township, Wisconsin
This is an interesting specimen of colorless, banded, quartz that was dug up in a farm field in Cato Township, Manitowoc County,...
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Quartz Crystals on Calcite - San Antonio Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico
Small delicate crystal florets of yellow fluorescing quartz needles are peppered around a matrix of calcite on this striking specimen. ...
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