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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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Horned natrolite?
Locality: Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada. Obviously this natrolite contains some uranyl,...
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Caracolite
This specimen came from one of the mines near Caracoles, Antofagasta Region, Antofagasta Province, Sierra Gorda District, Caracoles,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Sweetwater Agate, Agate Flats, Wyoming
Translucent, bluish/grey, river-worn, nodule of chalcedony with numerous radiating inclusions of manganese oxide. Found in the Agate...
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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...
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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...
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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.,...
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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...
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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...
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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.,...
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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...
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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...
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Eucryptite, Harding Mine, Taos Co., New Mexico
This specimen contains intensely red fluorescent eucryptite in weak blue fluorescent spodumene, from the Harding Mine (Harding...
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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...
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Small but pretty anglesite crystal
Anglesite from Monteponi, Sardinia, Italy. Weak yellowish fluorescence in SW-UV.
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Norbergite, Sterling Mine
Grains of brown/yellow Norbergite on white Franklin marble, from the Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex Co., New Jersey. ...
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Calcite Cleavage Rhomb, Challenger Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
A brightly fluorescent and phosphorescent calcite cleavage rhomb from Challenger Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. This specimen shows classic...
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Willemite Lightning in a Hardystonite Sky
Spectacular under short wave UV, green fluorescent willemite lightning bolts flash in a blue hardystonite sky in this specimen from the...
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