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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Fluorapatite var."Spargelstein" from Jumilla, Spain.
Multicolor fluorescent calcite from the area of Gatineau, Qc, Canada
Fluorescent mica from three different localities
Scheelite, with calcite and fluorite, from Hunan, China
Brightly fluorescent opal from Maine
Phlogopite, Forsterite in Marble from Afghanistan.
Cerussite on Dolomite crystals from Morocco.
Spinel, Clinohumite in Marble from Sierra de Mijas, Malaga, Spain.
Apatite Calcite crystals with Chalcedony coating from Jumilla, Spain
Fluorite Cleavage Octahedron from the Hill-Ledford Mine, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
Calcite & dolomite; Långban mine, Filipstad, Värmland County, Sweden
Aragonite; Boccheggiano mines, Montieri, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy
Tugtupite, chkalovite & analcime, from the Taseq Slope, Ilímaussaq complex, Kujalleq, Greenland
Calcite, with strong "brief intense phosphorescence" - Estrie, Quebec, Canada
Hackmanite, feldspar, astrophyllite, etc, from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Fluorescent combo from the Long Lake Zinc Mine, near Parham, Ontario, Canada
Fluorescent albite, with scapolite, from the Laurentians, Quebec, Canada
Willemite and Calcite, Puttapa Zinc Mine, Australia
Uncommon Fluorescent Calcite from the Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Tennessee
Barite Rosettes from the Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Iowa