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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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Agrellite, Kipawa Alkaline Complex, Québec, Canada
Massive, light grey colored, crystalline agrellite from the Kipawa alkaline complex, Les Lacs-du-Témiscamingue, Témiscamingue RCM,...
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Prosopite, Thomsonite, Ralstonite from Ivigtut, Greenland
Prosopite can forms as an alteration product in cryolite-bearing pegmatites, either as a primary mineral or as an alteration product of...
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Opalized Volcanic Tuff, Burro Creek, Arizona
Light-colored, dendritic, brecciated opalized volcanic tuff (opalite) having a sponge like texture. Contains weblike veins of hyalite...
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Scapolite, Feldspar and Uraninite; Ontario, Canada
Very interesting fluorescent specimen consisting of a cluster of large, blocky, light-colored scapolite crystals (partially altered to...
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Natrolite and Microcline, Poudrette Quarry, Mont St-Hilaire, Canada
Cluster of small translucent natrolite crystals with interspersed crystals of microcline and an unidentified non-fluorescent brownish...
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Fluorescent Tremolite from the Land of the Greatest Snow on Earth
This is a very nice fluorescent specimen from a location that is near and dear to my heart. This piece contains small, bladed crystals...
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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...
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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...
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Miserite, Wollastonite, Aegirine (nf), Arkansas
Here's an interesting example of miserite, wollastonite, and aegirine from the Union Carbide Vanadium Mine, Potash Sulphur Springs,...
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Hydrozincite, Goodsprings, Nevada
Normally I’m not a big fan of cutting or polishing rocks, as I prefer them in their original, natural condition. I’ll make an exception...
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Calcite and Willemite, Stevenson-Bennett Mine, New Mexico
Fluorescent calcite and willemite from the Stevenson-Bennett Mine, Organ Mts, Doña Ana Co., New Mexico. Under short wave UV the calcite...
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Scapolite and Calcite, Sterling Hill, New Jersey
This rock contains an assemblage of light, colorless scapolite and calcite and dark franklinite, from the famous Sterling Mine, Sterling...
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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...
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Fluorescent Calcite Vein in Wheeler Shale, Delta, UT
This is a simple, but interesting fluorescent specimen that dates back to the age of the trilobites. A vein of light-colored calcite...
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Tourmaline, Black Rock Glacier, Alaska
Alaska, known for abundant wildlife, incredible fishing, stunning scenery, and of course oil, offers very little to the fluorescent...
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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,...
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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...
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Wollastonite, Miserite, Aegirine; Arkansas
Not known for fluorescents, Arkansas delivered with this piece of wollastonite, miserite, and aegirine from the Union Carbide Vanadium...
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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...
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Cuprian-powellite (powellite-Cu)
Cuprian powellite: Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region, Chile. The yellow fluorescence of powellite,...
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