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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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Fluorapatite var."Spargelstein" from Jumilla, Spain.
Fluorapatite var."Spargelstein" on Hematite (not fluo) covered with small spheres of Calcite and Chalcedony. From Nuestra Señora del...
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Multicolor fluorescent calcite from the area of Gatineau, Qc, Canada
In daylight, this specimen is something most collectors would not even bother looking at; but since I knew calcite from this locale,...
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Fluorescent mica from three different localities
Last year, one of my partners and I found lots of SW UV reactive phlogopite in the Lower Laurentians, Quebec, Canada, often associated...
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Scheelite, with calcite and fluorite, from Hunan, China
Nice little specimen from the Chashan Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China. Interestingly, the...
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Brightly fluorescent opal from Maine
Old-time specimen of brightly fluorescent opal-AN from the Lord Hill Quarry, Stoneham, Oxford County, Maine, recently acquired in a...
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Phlogopite, Forsterite in Marble from Afghanistan.
Centimetric Phlogopite crystals with Fluo Orange LW-MW yellow SW and Forsterite or diopsid (difficult to differentiate without an...
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Cerussite on Dolomite crystals from Morocco.
Twinned dipyramidal crystals (cyclic twin) of Cerussite on rhombohedral Dolomite micro crystals with intense red UVC fluo, Cerussite is...
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Spinel, Clinohumite in Marble from Sierra de Mijas, Malaga, Spain.
Spinel and Clinohumite micro crystals on a marble matrix. From Sierra de Mijas, Málaga, Andalusia, Spain. It is a difficult material to...
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Apatite Calcite crystals with Chalcedony coating from Jumilla, Spain
This is an grouping of Apatite and Calcite crystals with a Chalcedony coating from Nuestra Señora del Carmen mine, La Celia volcano,...
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Fluorite Cleavage Octahedron from the Hill-Ledford Mine, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
This is a large, transparent, purple fluorite cleavage octahedron from the Hill-Ledford mine, in Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois. ...
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Calcite & dolomite; Långban mine, Filipstad, Värmland County, Sweden
Shown here is a nice little specimen of very brightly fluorescing calcite, with dolomite, from the Långban mine. This material is so...
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Aragonite; Boccheggiano mines, Montieri, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy
"Boccheggiano-type aragonite", showing a very bright red fluorescence under longwave UV. As usual, the fluorescence of this specimen is...
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Tugtupite, chkalovite & analcime, from the Taseq Slope, Ilímaussaq complex, Kujalleq, Greenland
Really nice small cabinet specimen of tugtupite (bright cherry red SW), chkalovite (pearl-white and blueish-white SW) and analcime...
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Calcite, with strong "brief intense phosphorescence" - Estrie, Quebec, Canada
This calcite specimen, with the typical red fluorescence (best MW, then SW, then LW, as it's often the case with red fluorescing...
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Hackmanite, feldspar, astrophyllite, etc, from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Shown in the slideshow below is a nice combination piece consisting mostly of brightly fluorescing hackmanite, with some SW fluorescing...
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Fluorescent combo from the Long Lake Zinc Mine, near Parham, Ontario, Canada
Shown here is a nice specimen of fluorescent calcitic marble from this well-known Canadian locale. The most abundant mineral is the red...
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Fluorescent albite, with scapolite, from the Laurentians, Quebec, Canada
Shown here is a nice cabinet-sized specimen of calc-silicated skarn rock containing scapolite (typical bright yellow response under LW),...
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Willemite and Calcite, Puttapa Zinc Mine, Australia
Classic fluorescent specimen from the Puttapa Zinc Mine, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, South Australia. This rock consists of a...
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Uncommon Fluorescent Calcite from the Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Tennessee
Every so often, a common location will produce a very uncommon specimen. The Elmwood mine, a zinc mine located in Carthage, Tennessee,...
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Barite Rosettes from the Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Iowa
Located on the banks of the Mississippi River in Buffalo, Scott Co., Iowa, the Linwood Mine is one of the largest underground limestone...
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