Brilliant Green Fluorescent Willemite from the Sterling Mine
A red/brown, somewhat rhombohedral, piece of nearly pure willemite, with minor calcite. This red variety of willemite contains manganese...
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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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Canadian Lightning Storm- Aragonite Bolts from the Long Lake Zinc Mine
Aragonite "lightning bolts" fluoresce bright blue/white on this spectacular specimen from the Long Lake Zinc Mine, Olden Township, near...
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Deep Blue Fluorescent Fluorite, William Wise Mine, Westmoreland, New Hampshire
Green octahedral fluorite crystals on a mixed matrix of colorless calcite and fluorite, from the William Wise Mine, Westmoreland,...
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Hyalite Opal, Chalk Mountain Mine, Spruce Pine, North Carolina
Hyalite opal from the Chalk Mountain Mine, in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, provides a classic example of uranyl-activated green...
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Fluorescent and Phosphorescent Calcite, Annabel Lee Mine, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
This is a subtle, but beautiful fluorescent specimen from a classic Cave-In-Rock, IL, location- the Annabel Lee Mine. Comprised of a...
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Walstromite with Unknown Blue, Big Creek – Rush Creek Deposit, Fresno County, California, USA.
Walstromite is pretty much limited to a few locations in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. Here’s a very...
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Rampgill Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, North and Western Region (Cumberland)
And if that’s not enough, minerals include: Calcite (red), Barytocalcite (pink), Witherite (cream), Baryte (yellowish white), Fluorite...
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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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