sodalite specimen from Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
I like to collect fluorescent rocks that also tell a story about their formation. This is a sodalite specimen from Sar-e-Sang,...
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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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Calcite with dolomite and quartz, from Sainte-Clotilde, Québec, Canada
The now inaccessible Chenail quarry (Formerly Marcil quarry), in Sainte-Clotilde-de-Châteauguay, Montérégie, Québec, Canada, is a classic...
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Tenebrescent blue sodalite, zircon, feldspar, etc, from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
This is one of many specimens I recovered from a boulder in the quarry in Mont Saint-Hilaire in 2018. While it's far from being the best...
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Two colors longwave UV fluorescent specimen from Grenville-Sur-La-Rouge, Québec, Canada
This specimen consists of a combination of scapolite, with an unidentified mineral that glows very bright light blue under longwave UV....
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Gemmy "Terlingua-type" calcite with blue light and green laser fluorescence
Shown here is a pretty small but nicely transparent, gemmy cleavage rhomb of "Terlingua-type" calcite from the Challenger Cave, Nuevo...
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"Terlingua-type" calcite with unusual yellow midwave UV response
A few months ago, I purchased this nice and quite big cleavage rhomb of "terlingua-type" calcite, from the Challenger Cave, Nuevo Leon,...
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Fluorescent and phosphorescent calcite from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Nice small cabinet specimen, consisting of two successive generations of calcite, from the world-renowned Poudrette Quarry in Mont...
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Calcite Fluorite from Berta quarry, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
The Berta quarry is an inactive quarry located on the northwest slope of the Sierra de Roques Blanques, in the municipalities of San...
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Fluorapatite var."Spargelstein" from Jumilla, Spain.
Fluorapatite var."Spargelstein" on Hematite (not fluo) covered with small spheres of Calcite and Chalcedony. From Nuestra Señora del...
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Violet laser reactive "optical calcite" from the area of Gatineau, Qc, Canada
Small calcite cleavage from a now depleted small occurrence near Gatineau, in Outaouais, Quebec, Canada. Fluoresces pretty nicely under...
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Multicolor fluorescent calcite from the area of Gatineau, Qc, Canada
In daylight, this specimen is something most collectors would not even bother looking at; but since I knew calcite from this locale,...
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Scheelite, with calcite and fluorite, from Hunan, China
Nice little specimen from the Chashan Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China. Interestingly, the...
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Phlogopite, Forsterite in Marble from Afghanistan.
Centimetric Phlogopite crystals with Fluo Orange LW-MW yellow SW and Forsterite or diopsid (difficult to differentiate without an...
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Cerussite on Dolomite crystals from Morocco.
Twinned dipyramidal crystals (cyclic twin) of Cerussite on rhombohedral Dolomite micro crystals with intense red UVC fluo, Cerussite is...
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Apatite Calcite crystals with Chalcedony coating from Jumilla, Spain
This is an grouping of Apatite and Calcite crystals with a Chalcedony coating from Nuestra Señora del Carmen mine, La Celia volcano,...
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Vividly Fluorescent Calcite from the Sweetwater Mine, Reynolds County, Missouri
This vivid fluorescent specimen is from a classic midwestern location, the Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds...
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Aragonite; Boccheggiano mines, Montieri, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy
"Boccheggiano-type aragonite", showing a very bright red fluorescence under longwave UV. As usual, the fluorescence of this specimen is...
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Tugtupite, chkalovite & analcime, from the Taseq Slope, Ilímaussaq complex, Kujalleq, Greenland
Really nice small cabinet specimen of tugtupite (bright cherry red SW), chkalovite (pearl-white and blueish-white SW) and analcime...
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Calcite, with strong "brief intense phosphorescence" - Estrie, Quebec, Canada
This calcite specimen, with the typical red fluorescence (best MW, then SW, then LW, as it's often the case with red fluorescing...
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Fluorescent calcite, with quartz crystals - Estrie, Quebec, Canada
Nice small cabinet-sized specimen, consisting of calcite crystals, over milky quartz crystals. As it's often the case with typical red...
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