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Fluorescent Mineral Photo Gallery

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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...

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...

Cuprian-powellite (powellite-Cu)

Cuprian powellite: Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region, Chile. The yellow fluorescence of powellite,...

Horned natrolite?

Locality: Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada. Obviously this natrolite contains some uranyl,...

Caracolite

This specimen came from one of the mines near Caracoles, Antofagasta Region, Antofagasta Province, Sierra Gorda District, Caracoles,...

Spectacular Fluorescent Specimen from the Long Lake Zinc Mine, Ontario, Canada

This is a beautiful multi-colored fluorescent specimen from the Long Lake Zinc Mine, near Parham, Frontenac Co., Ontario, Canada. Under...

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...

Marialite-Meionite Scapolite ("Wernerite"), Rose Road, Pitcairn, New York

This multi-wave fluorescent specimen contains wernerite, diopside and minor calcite, collected from the Purple Diopside Mound (PDM), Rose...

Sweetwater Agate, Agate Flats, Wyoming

Translucent, bluish/grey, river-worn, nodule of chalcedony with numerous radiating inclusions of manganese oxide. Found in the Agate...

Brightly Fluorescent Diopside in Calcite, Fort Ann, New York

This is a spectacular fluorescent Diopside specimen that rivals most Franklin material for brightness. Collected in 1995 from a roadcut...

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.,...

Fluoborite, Bodnar Quarry, Rudeville, New Jersey

Crystals of light grey fluoborite in a groundmass of white Franklin marble, from the Bodnar Quarry, Rudeville, Hardyston Township, Sussex...

Wollastonite, Calcite, and Hydrozincite, Big Yellow Mine, Utah

This is a small, but spectacular fluorescent specimen, collected in 2016 from the Big Yellow Mine, located on the back side of Indian...

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.,...

Superman’s Greatest Nemisis: Kryptonite!

Actually, this is a very unusual specimen consisting of brightly fluorescent hyalite opal (Opal-AN) on translucent quartz, from the Lord...

Fluorapatite, Rothsay Beryl Mine, Perenjori Shire, Western Australia

Bright fluorescent fluorapatite from the Rothsay Beryl Mine, Perenjori Shire, Western Australia. Under short wave UV this specimen...

Eucryptite, Harding Mine, Taos Co., New Mexico

This specimen contains intensely red fluorescent eucryptite in weak blue fluorescent spodumene, from the Harding Mine (Harding...

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...

Small but pretty anglesite crystal

Anglesite from Monteponi, Sardinia, Italy. Weak yellowish fluorescence in SW-UV.