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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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Clinohedrite, Hardystonite, Willemite - Franklin, NJ
We have a bunch of folks attending the Franklin "SuperDigg" this April (2017). Many of them are carrying the new Convoy 365nm LW...
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Petrified Wood (Chalcedony) from Western North Dakota, USA
A member of our Fluorescent Mineral group on FB wanted some pics of some beautiful petrified wood he found way out in the wilderness in...
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Celestine, Strontianite and Calcite, from the Stoneco Quarry, Lime City, Ohio
From the Stoneco Quarry, Lime City, Wood Co., Ohio, this is a beautiful Midwestern fluorescent specimen consisting of blocky, white...
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Buttery Yellow Calcite, Elk Creek, South Dakota
Best known for its golden-amber colored barite crystals, the Elk Creek area of Meade County, South Dakota, also produces buttery yellow...
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Selenite, Baja California, Mexico
This is a cluster of white, bladed, intergrown crystals of selenite from an interesting location in Baja California, Mexico. Located at...
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Radiating Calcite Crystals, Irai, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil
A radiating cluster of translucent gray-white calcite crystals aesthetically perched on a dark matrix, from Irai, Rio Grande Do Sul,...
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Calcite and Celestine, Stoneco Quarry, Lime City, Ohio
This beautiful fluorescent specimen from the Midwest features a prominent doubly-terminated calcite crystal on a limestone matrix,...
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Barite, Calcite and Franklinite, Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, New Jersey
This is a large-grained rock containing light grey-colored calcite and barite, and black franklinite crystals; a much sought after...
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Daylight Fluorescent Fluorite from the Famous Rogerley Mine
Daylight fluorescence is a phenomenon where some fluorescent minerals show a noticeable color change under sunlight, due to the UV...
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Elusive Multi-Wave UV Fluorescent Hardystonite, Franklin, New Jersey
The beautiful blue fluorescent mineral hardystonite is a favorite among collectors of specimens from Franklin, New Jersey. This mineral...
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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,...
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Calcite, Fluorite and Pyrite; Chenzhou, Hunan China
An interesting chip calcite on fluorite from Chenzhou, Hunan, China. What's really different is that each calcite chip seems to have a...
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Witherite, Calcite, Baryte, and more! North Yorkshire, England
England has some very interesting and famous fluorescent materials. Material from the Danby Level, Northside Mines, Whaw, Arkengarthdale,...
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Complex quartz crystal with uranyl
Quartz with hyalite opal, Chihuahua, Mexico. A geode with fluorescing hyalite opal also has a few tiny quartz crystals. This one is about...
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Two Generations of Calcite from Missouri
This is an interesting specimen consisting of what appears to be two generations of calcite and areas of drusy quartz, on a limestone...
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Wollastonite, Willsboro, New York
Collectors of fluorescent minerals are familiar with the bright, warm yellow, fluorescent wollastonite from the Franklin/Sterling Hill,...
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Eucryptite, Parker Mountain Mine, Strattford, New Hampshire
Grey-colored specimen containing a high percent content of eucryptite, from the Parker Mountain Mine, Parker Mountain, Strafford, New...
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Calcite Cleavage Rhomb, Utah
Colorless, translucent, calcite cleavage rhomb from an unknown location in Utah. Looking somewhat average under visible light, it shows...
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Calcite Cleavage Rhomb, Cave Stone Co. Quarry, Norristown, Indiana
Although this is not one of my more brightly-fluorescent specimens, it nonetheless shows a beautiful response under UV. It is a...
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Calcite, France Stone Co. Quarry, Grape, Michigan
Here’s an interesting little fluorescent specimen from an obscure Midwestern location, consisting of small clusters of honey-colored...
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