Fluorescent Afghanite Crystals on Calcite, from Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan
This is a spectacular and unique fluorescent specimen that has a lot going on under every UV wavelength. It perhaps shows the greatest...
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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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Barite Crystals, Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Iowa
This is a large cluster of intergrown, prismatic, light golden/smoky colored barite crystals, on a minimal limestone matrix. It was...
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Another Franklin combo
Sphalerite with willemite. The spalerite has a nice phosphorescence, which helps to distinguish it from calcite. SW en MW-UV combined....
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Pastel Sodalite and Ussingite - Tunuliarfik Greenland
This is a large 7x3x2.5" specimen of interesting Sodalite & Ussingite from Tunuliarfik Greenland. It exhibits an unusual pastel...
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Gypsum with hourglass
This gypsum is waterclear but contains some humic acids. This organic stuff is accumulated more rapidly in the faster growing direction...
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Wickenburgite
Photos in natural ligt and SW-UV. Locality: Moon Anchor Mine, Hummingbird Spring, Osborn District, Big Horn Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona,...
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Terlingua Calcite- Terlingua, Texas
Terlingua calcite is one of the most spectacular and beautiful fluorescent minerals due to its bright, multi-colored, multi-wave,...
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(Neil) Armstrongite
Certainly not the most impressive fluorescent mineral, but it is quite rare any many people don't even know that it can fluoresce. It...
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Phlogopite in calcite
Phlogopite fluorescing yellowish green in red fluorescing calcite. Under SW-UV. Locality: Badakhshan, Afghanistan. Source: Fluorescent...
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Deep under the sea... aragonite
This banded aragonite has formed on the sea-floor by compression of all kind of small skeletons and shells of living creatures. Photo in...
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Aragonite on calcite, Belgium
A wonderfull spray of aragonite needles on red fluorescing calcite. This is not a stack or even a digital image... It's the first slide...
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Another Long Lake combo
The Parham combos are top material for the fluorophile collectors. Calcite = red, diopside = greenish blue, chondrodite = orange,...
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Tremolite and Anthophyllite, Balmat, New York
Foliated layers of needle-like crystals of light pink tremolite and intergrown anthophyllite, from Balmat, St. Lawrence County, New York....
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Aragonite and chondrodite
Locality: Long Lake Zinc Mine, Olden Township, Frontenac Co., Ontario, Canada The locality yields specimens that are stunning. Sometimes...
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Weloganite
From where else? Francon Quarry, Montréal, Quebec, Canada... With somegreenish and white unknowns... Both in white light and SW-UV....
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Sulfur from Michigan, Maybee it’s fluorescent, Maybee not…
It has been reported that crystals of sulfur from Maybee, Michigan, occasionally show weak yellow fluorescence under UV (Robbins,...
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Hydrozincite and calcite
This calcite and hydrozincite combo comes from an old Belgian lead/zinc mine near Plombières, Liège province, Belgium. The locality is no...
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Passa Limani slag combo
Calcite, aragonite and sphalerite from the Passa Limani slag locality, Lavrion, Attica, Greece. Source: Fluorescent Minerals Workgroup MKA
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Hydrozincite and lead
This hydrozincite comes from the Minas de Altaiz, in the Picos de Europa National Park in the Norts of Spain. The fluorescence is due to...
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Calcite, France
Very sharp calcite needles that fluoresce a stong greenish white with an equally strong phosphorescence. Clearly some polycyclic aromatic...
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