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Fluorescent Mineral Photo Gallery

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Hackmanite, scapolite, johachidolite, etc., from Myanmar

Small but lovely specimen, consisting of hackmanite, scapolite, johachidolite and feldspar. The hackmanite is so tenebrescent, even under...

Hackmanite, scapolite, johachidolite, feldspar, etc, from Myanmar

Shown here is a very nice specimen of super deeply tenebrescent sodalite var. hackmanite, from the Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District,...

Hyalite-Coated Chalcedony and Fluorite, SK Star Claim #2, Juab Co., Utah

This interesting and unique fluorescent specimen looks like something you'd expect to find in an underwater coral reef. Collected from...

Red Trinitite, a Piece of Atomic History

Red trinitite is technically not a true mineral, because it was not formed through a geologic process. Rather, this brick-red colored...

Tiffany Stone, Brush Wellman Mine, Delta, Utah

Tiffany stone is a complex rock composed of opalized fluorite with bands and veins of chalcedony, manganese oxide and bertrandite. The...

Fluorescent Chalcanthite with Antlerite, Brochantite-MDO2 and Shungite(1) - Dongchaun, China/荧光胆矾

An unusual find in Dec 2021, hard to say to be beautiful but strange enough indeed. As chalcanthite is a simple copper sulfate mineral,...

Agrellite, with albite and uranyl-activated green fluorescence from Kipawa, Quebec, Canada

Nice three colors combo from the famous Kipawa alkaline complex in Western Quebec, Canada. I like how well balanced the colors are on...

Green Fluorescent Fluorite, Fourmile Creek, Colorado

Rare green fluorescent botryoidal fluorite from the Fourmile Creek area, near Canon City, Fremont County, Colorado. Fluorite in...

Greenland Fantasy Rock, a Spectacular, Multi-Colored Fluorescent Treat from the Taseq Slope

This is an excellent example of Greenland Fantasy Rock, showing a beautiful multi-colored, multi-wavelength fluorescent response under...

Daylight Fluorescent Hyalite Opal, Zacatecas, Mexico

Colorless to greenish, transparent, glassy bubbles of hyalite opal (Opal-AN) covering an unknown brown/grey colored matrix, from Electric...

Tiffany Stone, Delta, Utah

Tiffany stone is a complex rock composed of opalized fluorite with bands and veins of chalcedony, manganese oxide and bertrandite. The...

Rare Green Fluorescent Fluorite, Fourmile Creek, Colorado

Fluorite is a mineral that occurs in many different colors and habits, and is often fluorescent under UV. Most commonly, fluorite shows...

Polylithionite from Greenland

Plates of silvery polylithionite mica and pink crystals of eudialyte dominate this specimen from Kangerluarssaq fjord, Ilímaussaq...

Meta-Autunite Torbernite 'Green Garden' from Portugal

Here a beautiful mix of Autunite and Torbernite from Assunçao (Portugal). On a gray rock matrix are several crystals of Meta-Autunite...

Hyalite Opal Geode from Mexico

This is a hollow, rhyolitic, geode nodule half containing a botryoidal, bubbly mass of colorless hyalite opal and small quartz flowers,...

Escherlike crystals of Adamite

This is a nice little gemmy Adamite from the Ojuela Mine, Mapami, Durango, Mexico. It is pretty small (4.2 cm x 3.1 cm x 1.6 cm, 28.3...

Metauranocircite, Davier Mine, South Dakota

Small yellow/green, plate-like, crystals of metauranocircite on a dark limonitic stained Rhyolite matrix. From the Davier Mine, located...

Natrozippeite from the Little Eva Mine, Grand County, Utah

Natrozippeite, also known as sodium zippeite, is a secondary hydrous sodium uranium sulfate that commonly forms as efflorescent...

Scapolite, Feldspar and Uraninite; Ontario, Canada

Very interesting fluorescent specimen consisting of a cluster of large, blocky, light-colored scapolite crystals (partially altered to...

Liebigite, Schwartzwalder Mine, Jefferson Co., Colorado

Yellowish green scales of liebigite on schist, from the Schwartzwalder Mine, Jefferson Co., Colorado. Liebigite is a secondary uranyl...