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Fluorescent Mineral Photo Gallery

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A Beautiful Midwestern Fluorescent Classic- Celestine, Strontianite and Calcite from the Stoneco Lim

This is a matrix-free cluster of blocky white celestine crystals, partially altered to strontianite, and honey-colored calcite...

Corundum (var. Ruby) from 12,000 feet in Nepal!

Found this sample of Corundum from Nepal at a local show, and really liked the response in longwave. I've seen ruby from Africa, from...

Calcite, Kamioka Mine, Gifu Prefecture, Japan

Not many fluorescents seem to come from Japan. This one is a very nice, though small, calcite from the Kamioka Mine in Kamioka Town,...

Fluorescent Selenite Blades from the Great Salt Plains, Jet, Oklahoma

The state of Oklahoma is not known to be a prolific source of fluorescent mineral specimens. However, the Great Salt Plains, located in...

Fluorite with Phantoms, Cady Mountains, California

Somewhere between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, lie the Cady Mountains. At least there is some treasure between the two cities, here's a...

Fluorite with Phantoms, Moscona Mine, Spain

Here's a beautiful fluorite with phantoms from the Moscona Mine in Asturias, Spain. Not the typical blue, but instead a very soft cream...

Gypsum, var. Selenite, Manitoba, Canada

Selenite from the Red River Spillway (Floodway) in Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada should be on everyone's list to add to their collection....

Manganaxinite and Probable Margarosanite, Franklin mine, Franklin, New Jersey

Buff-colored piece of solid Axinite-(Mn) [aka manganaxinite], with minor willemite and a blue/white fluorescent mineral that is likely...

Beautiful Mid Wave UV Fluorescent Calcite from Putnam Co., Indiana

White to tan-colored, bladed calcite crystals on a matrix of solid granular calcite. This specimen was collected from an unknown...

Carpathite Crystals from San Benito Co., California, USA

Rick Kennedy surprised most folks in the FMS Fluorescent Mineral Group (FB) by posting pics of this magnificent cluster of carpathite...

Hackmanite, Cryolite, and Feldspar; Kola Peninsula, Russia

Some think this piece looks like a cross between Nemo and Dory, regardless, it's an interesting and allegedly relatively rare. It's...

Cryolite and Siderite - Ivigtut, Greenland

From the closed cryolite mine (the world's only?) in Greenland. Fluorescent cryolite is quite rare and unusual - most are not...

Calcite, Chihuahua, Mexico

Another specimen from an old collection, this one an interesting calcite from Chihuahua, Mexico . Anyway, though this one looks like it...

Anglesite, Touissit Mine, Oujda, Morocco

A new mineral to us, we found this specimen buried in a flat of old specimens at a local rock show. We left it there for two days, and it...

Sphalerite, Willemite, and Franklinite, Sterling Hill Mine, NJ

Sphalerite is a stunning material, and apparently quite varied in its manifestations. This Sterling Hill Mine specimen is a rather large...

Spectacular 3-Color Rock from Miller Canyon, Arizona

Miller Canyon is located in the rugged terrain of the Huachuca Mountains, in Cochise County, Arizona. Near the top of Miller Canyon lies...

A 3-Color Fluorescent Beauty from Miller Canyon, Arizona

The Nelly James was a small open pit lead, copper, zinc, gold and silver mine located in Miller Canyon, in the Huachuca Mountains,...

Hyalophane from the Famous Franklin Mine, Franklin, New Jersey

Hyalophane is a barium rich variety of the feldspar mineral microcline that shows pink/magenta fluorescence under short wave UV. In this...

Calcite, Willemite, Franklinite and Zincite: A Sterling Hill, NJ Classic

This is a classic, bright fluorescent specimen from the famous Sterling mine in Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, New Jersey. This piece...

Tugtupite, Chkalovite and Arfvedsonite, Tasseq Slope, Ilímaussaq complex, Greenland

Mottled white to grey colored rock consisting of light colored tugtupite and grey chkalovite, with back needle-like crystals of...