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Fluorescent Mineral Photo Gallery

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In the mix: sphalerite/wurtzite

Mixture of wurtzite and sphalerite from: Horn Silver Mine, Frisco, San Francisco District, San Francisco Mts, Beaver Co., Utah, USA. When...

Swedenborgite in calcite

You can hardly distinguish between calcite and swedenborgite in white light. In SW-UV they couldn't be more different. Micheal Gaft, H....

Strontianite, Winfield, Pennsylvania

Radiating clusters of acicular crystals of off-white colored strontianite from the Winfield Quarry, Winfield, Union Co., Pennsylvania. ...

Laumontite on prehnite

Laumontite fluoresces medium bright off-white. The prehnite matrix fluoresces extremely weak greenish. Locality: Pune, Maharashtra State,...

Calcite, aragonite and cerussite

On less than 1 cm² we find these three minerals. Calcite fluoresces red, aragonite fluoresces greenish white, cerussite is intergrown...

Fluorescent/Phosphorescent Celestine and Strontianite, Lime City, Ohio

Blocky, white, celestine crystals, partially altered to strontianite, sit on a light-colored limestone matrix, from the Stoneco Quarry,...

Aragonite in clay

A spray of aragonite embedded in clay. From Pantoja, Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. The spray is about 2 cm wide. Source: Fluorescent...

Halite, the salty one

Source: Fluorescent Minerals Workgroup MKA Halite from Fulda, Germany. This specimen died in July 2013. We were staying at Kitty and Bill...

Diamonds are forever

Diamonds can fluoresce in almost any color. A little creativity ... and there we are. Source: Fluorescent Minerals Workgroup of the MKA

Fluorescent Concrete, Franklin, New Jersey

This specimen is an excellent example of building with the materials at hand. It is a piece of concrete, collected from the Trotter...

Calcite from Hawaii

Somewhat harder to get is this fluorescent calcite specimen from Hawaii. Organic matter causes the fluorescence. (courtesy of the MKA)...

Agatized coral, Withlacoochee river bed, Florida

Not so much fluorescent minerals in Florida. This one is darn "purty", though: Agatized coral, Withlacoochee river bed, Florida. Photos...

Anglesite from Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, Province of Carbonia-Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy

Anglesite from Monteponi under natural light, LW (purple) and MW (greenish) UV Source: Axel Emmermann, MKA http://fluo.mineralogie.be/ind...

Villiaumite - Aris Quarry, Aris, Windhoek District, Khomas Region, Namibia

Not often seen on photo... villiaumite. Locality: Aris Quarry, Aris, Windhoek District, Khomas Region, Namibia. The fluorescence is due...

Classic Barite on Calcite from Sterling Hill Mines in Ogdensburg, NJ USA

I took a spectrum of the red fluorescence of the calcite. It clearly shows the fluorescence of the co-activator, lead. The fluorescence...

Benitoite crystals from the Dallas Gem mine, California USA

Source: Axel Emmermann, MKA http://fluo.mineralogie.be/index.html

Colorless beryl, var. goshenite - Xuebaoding Mine, Pingwu, Sichuan, China

Colorless beryl, var. goshenite, which is permeated with very fine scheelite dust and thus fluoresces in shortwave UV. Xuebaoding Mine,...

Fluorite, Calcite, Smithsonite, Willemite - Hogan claim AZ

If I had to pick the top five fluorescent localities in the world I would pick the Hogan claim in AZ as one. They are bright and...

Tugtupite in Analcime, Taseq Slope, Ilimaussaq Complex, Greenland

Bubble gum pink colored tugtupite in a white analcime matrix, from the Taseq Slope, Ilimaussaq Complex, Narsaq, Greenland. This specimen...

Aragonite, Calcite, Sphalerite from the Passa Limani Locality in Greece

Some white fluorescing (SW) aragonite with red fl. calcite and orange fl. sphalerite from the Greek Passa Limani slag mineral locality....