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Fluorescent Mineral Photo Gallery

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Willemite, Smithsonite, Calcite, Puttapa Mine, Puttapa, Australia

From the Puttapa zinc mine (Beltana mine), a site famous for producing spectacularly colorful fluorescent specimens, this rock has a...

Fluorescent, Phosphorescent, Triboluminescent Sphalerite, Frisco, Utah

This is an outstanding specimen of sphalerite that displays several very interesting luminescent phenomena. It was collected from an...

Calcite, Willemite and Fluorite from the Hogan Claim, Wickenburg area, Arizona

This spectacular rock contains an assemblage of fluorescent calcite, willemite and fluorite in a brown/red-colored groundmass, and is...

Bright Fluorescent Wollastonite, Desert View Mine, California

This specimen contains bright fluorescent wollastonite and minor calcite and aragonite, from the Desert View Mine, San Bernardino Mts,...

Wollastonite, Calcite and Aragonite, Desert View Mine

This is an interesting 3-color fluorescent specimen from the Desert View Mine, San Bernardino Mts, San Bernardino Co., California. At...

Barite from the Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Iowa

Located adjacent to the Mississippi River, in Buffalo, Scott Co., Iowa, the Linwood Mine is one of the largest underground limestone...

Cryolithionite, Zapot Pegmatite, Mineral Co., Nevada

Cryolithionite is a rare lithium-containing mineral that occurs at only a few locations worldwide. This specimen was collected from the...

Fluorescent/Phosphorescent Fluorite on Calcite, Pint's Quarry, Raymond, Iowa

Amber-colored, cubic fluorite crystals on a bed of scalenohedral calcite, on limestone matrix, from Pint's Quarry, Raymond, Black Hawk...

Brightly Fluorescent and Phosphorescent Celestine, Strontianite and Calcite, Lime City, Ohio

Beautiful fluorescent specimen consisting of clusters of celestine and calcite crystals, from the Stoneco Quarry, Lime City, Wood Co.,...

Fluorite and Celestine, Stoneco White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ohio

Root beer-colored fluorite cubes with white translucent blades of celestine, from the Stoneco White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa Co.,...

Multi-Wave Hemimorphite, Petroglyph Mine, New Mexico

This is an interesting multi-wave fluorescent specimen consisting of light-colored hemimorphite on an unknown brown matrix, from the...

Calcite Cleavage Rhomb, Challenger Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

A brightly fluorescent and phosphorescent calcite cleavage rhomb from Challenger Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. This specimen shows classic...

Calcite, Willemite - Puttapa Australia

A nice 3.75" example from Puttapa Australia. From the Warrington collection, WA. Photographed under LW and SW with a 60mm macro lens at...

Dugway Geode, Dugway Geode Beds, Juab County, Utah

Many of the geodes collected from the famous Dugway Geode Beds in the Utah West Desert show impressive green fluorescence under UV. This...

Youngite, from the Youngite Caves, Guernsey, Wyoming

Fluorescent youngite specimen from Guernsey, Wyoming. Youngite is an agatized brecciated jasper with a coating of grayish translucent...

Fluorescent Fossil Clams, Pipe Creek Jr. Quarry, Marion, Indiana

And now for something a little different! This is a fossil comprised of bivalve mollusk shells in limestone, from the Pipe Creek Jr....

Phlogopite, Hackmanite, Winchite; Sar-E-Sang, Afghanistan

Phlogopite, hackmanite, and winchite from Sar-E-Sang Jurm, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. The phlogopite, a mica, glows yellow, the...

Terlingua-Type Calcite, San Vicente Mine, Coahuila, Mexico

Terlingua-type calcite shows a similar response to UV light compared to true Terlingua calcite, from the Terlingua, Texas, area. True...

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...

Wollastonite, Fengjiashan Mine, China

Wollastonite from the Fengjiashan Mine, Daye, Hubei, China. Not especially bright compared to other minerals, but a very nice subtle...