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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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New find - 3 colors longwave scapolite, prehnite and calcite, from Quebec, Canada
During an exploration trip with one of my partners on April 30 2022, in the area of Saint-Michel-De-Wentworth, north-east of...
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New find - 3 colors longwave scapolite, prehnite and calcite, from Quebec, Canada
During an exploration trip with one of my partners on April 30 2022, in the area of Saint-Michel-De-Wentworth, north-east of...
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New find - 2 colors longwave scapolite and prehnite, from Quebec, Canada
During an exploration trip with one of my partners on April 30 2022, in the area of Saint-Michel-De-Wentworth, north-east of...
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Brightly Fluorescent Tugtupite from the Taseq Slope, Ilimaussaq complex, Kujalleq, Greenland
This brightly fluorescent tugtupite specimen was collected in 2005 by Mark Cole from the Western Taseq Slope of the Ilmaussaq complex,...
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Fluorescent Chalcanthite with Antlerite, Brochantite-MDO2 and Shungite(1) - Dongchaun, China/荧光胆矾
An unusual find in Dec 2021, hard to say to be beautiful but strange enough indeed. As chalcanthite is a simple copper sulfate mineral,...
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Pargasite and Diopside, Franklin Quarry, Franklin, New Jersey
This rock contains large grains of green pargasite and grey-white diopside, and is quite attractive under both UV and visible light. It...
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Diopside and Calcite, Pitwak Mine, Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
This exceptional fluorescent specimen consists of numerous blocky diopside crystals encrusted upon and embedded within a calcite-marble...
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Yttrofluorite, Joseph Mine, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
Yttrofluorite is a variety of fluorite in which the rare earth element yttrium substitutes for some of the calcium in the fluorite (CaF2)...
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Complex Twinned Calcite, Sambava, Madagascar
During 2004-2005, a limited find of morphologically complex, multiply twinned, light yellow, gemmy calcite was made in the cavities of a...
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World-class fluorescent & phosphorescent selenite from Manitoba, Canada
Pristine, complete all around, world-class specimen of golden gypsum var. selenite from the Red River Floodway, Winnipeg, Manitoba,...
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Clinohedrite, Hardystonite, Willemite, and Calcite, Franklin Mine, Franklin, New Jersey
This spectacular, 4-colored, fluorescent specimen is from the famous Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey. Under short wave...
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Yttrofluorite, Joseph Mine, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
Yttrofluorite is a variety of fluorite in which the rare earth element yttrium substitutes for some of the calcium in the fluorite...
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Fluorescent & phosphorescent selenite from Manitoba, Canada
Nice specimen of gypsum var. selenite from the Red River Floodway, Winnipeg, Manitoba. In the first picture, the specimen is shown...
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Scheelite and caliche from Darwin, California
Nice cabinet specimen, recently obtained in a trade, consisting of scheelite (bright blueish-white under shortwave UV, and yellow under...
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Tenebrescent sodalite, with chkalovite, tugtupite and uranyl, from Greenland
Very nice cabinet-sized specimen consisting of tenebrescent sodalite (orange fluorescence under all UV wavelengths, brighter LW), with...
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Tenebrescent yellow sodalite from Greenland
Shown here is a very modest sized but lovely specimen of tenebrescent yellow sodalite, from Taseq Slope East, Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq,...
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Tugtupite from Greenland
Cute little specimen of tugtupite, associated with chkalovite (assumed ID), along with some uranyl-activated green fluorescence, plus...
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Fluorescent aragonite from Mexico
Very nice cabinet-sized specimen of stalactitic aragonite (aka "Cave aragonite"), from the Santa Eulalia Mining District, fluorescing...
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Fluorescent aragonite from Mexico
Very nice, large cabinet-sized specimen of stalactitic aragonite (aka "Cave aragonite"), from the Santa Eulalia Mining District,...
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"Multiwave" fluorescent kunzite from Brazil
Large cabinet-sized specimen of spodumene var. kunzite, from Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Shown fluorescing under shortwave UV in...
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