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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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Laumontite on prehnite
Laumontite fluoresces medium bright off-white. The prehnite matrix fluoresces extremely weak greenish. Locality: Pune, Maharashtra State,...
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Calcite, aragonite and cerussite
On less than 1 cm² we find these three minerals. Calcite fluoresces red, aragonite fluoresces greenish white, cerussite is intergrown...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Diamonds are forever
Diamonds can fluoresce in almost any color. A little creativity ... and there we are. Source: Fluorescent Minerals Workgroup of the MKA
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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...
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Calcite from Hawaii
Somewhat harder to get is this fluorescent calcite specimen from Hawaii. Organic matter causes the fluorescence. (courtesy of the MKA)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Benitoite crystals from the Dallas Gem mine, California USA
Source: Axel Emmermann, MKA http://fluo.mineralogie.be/index.html
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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...
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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...
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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....
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Natrolite, Uranyl Activated - Mt. St. Hilaire, Canada
Has anyone ever seen the scary horned natrolite from MSH? Some uranyl lights up the party... Courtesy of MKA: http://fluo.mineralogie.be/...
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Scheelite and Calcite (Crystals) on Fluorite - China
A pretty scheelite crystal on non-fluorescing fluorite, neighboring a calcite twin... Dongshan Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore...
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Multi-Colored Wickenburgite, Willemite and Fluorite, from the Potter-Cramer Mine, Maricopa Co., Ariz
From the desert of southern Arizona, this is a very ordinary and nondescript looking rock in daylight, as is the case with many...
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Wispy Hydrocarbon Inclusions in Fluorite from Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
This pair of yellow fluorite cubes from Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois, show a very interesting multi-wave fluorescent response due t
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