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Anglesite, Touissit Mine, Oujda, Morocco

A new mineral to us, we found this specimen buried in a flat of old specimens at a local rock show. We left it there for two days, and it...

NiteLite - A Dual-Wave UV 365nm and White Light Flashlight

A new flashlight has appeared on the market which I find quite interesting. It is the result of a joint venture with Engenious Designs...

Calcite on Limonitic Gossan, Montreal Mine, Wisconsin

This is an interesting fluorescent calcite specimen from a location not generally known for producing fluorescent minerals. From the...

Red Fluorescent Fluorite - Mexico

At Tucson 2017 I had my deathray longwave LED flashlight (as did one other fellow). We came across a vendor selling Mapami fluorite...

Sphalerite, Willemite, and Franklinite, Sterling Hill Mine, NJ

Sphalerite is a stunning material, and apparently quite varied in its manifestations. This Sterling Hill Mine specimen is a rather large...

Belgian smithsonite

One of Belgium's lesser known fluorescent minerals is smithsonite. It fluoresces weakly in SW UV but much stronger in the powerbeam of...

Spectacular 3-Color Rock from Miller Canyon, Arizona

Miller Canyon is located in the rugged terrain of the Huachuca Mountains, in Cochise County, Arizona. Near the top of Miller Canyon lies...

A 3-Color Fluorescent Beauty from Miller Canyon, Arizona

The Nelly James was a small open pit lead, copper, zinc, gold and silver mine located in Miller Canyon, in the Huachuca Mountains,...

Hyalophane from the Famous Franklin Mine, Franklin, New Jersey

Hyalophane is a barium rich variety of the feldspar mineral microcline that shows pink/magenta fluorescence under short wave UV. In this...

Wulfenite from Blue Bell Mine CA.

The Blue Bell Mine, Zzyzx, Soda Mts, Silver Lake District, San Bernardino Co., California, USA, appears to to have become an advocate for...

Calcite, Willemite, Franklinite and Zincite: A Sterling Hill, NJ Classic

This is a classic, bright fluorescent specimen from the famous Sterling mine in Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, New Jersey. This piece...

Tugtupite, Chkalovite and Arfvedsonite, Tasseq Slope, Ilímaussaq complex, Greenland

Mottled white to grey colored rock consisting of light colored tugtupite and grey chkalovite, with back needle-like crystals of...

Tugtupite, Sodalite, and Other Favorites from the Tasseq Slope, Greenland

Brick-shaped rock consisting of white to light pink tugtupite, light colored sodalite (var. hackmanite), grey analcime, chkalovite and...

Sphalerite from the Horn Silver Mine, Frisco, Utah

The Horn Silver mine is located in the town of Frisco, Beaver County, Utah, and during its heyday in the late 1870s, was one of the...

Terlingua-type Calcite from an Unusual Location

Collectors of fluorescent minerals are familiar with the beautiful multi-wavelength fluorescent response of Terlingua calcite. By...

Smithsonite, El Refugio mine, Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico

The El Refugio mine, located in Choix, in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, is a notable source of beautiful specimens of the zinc carbonate...

Big Powellite Crystal. Poona, India

Good sample of Powellite Crystal from India. Directly bought from an indian collector at the International Mineralogical Exhibition in...

Scheelite from China - Multi-Color Response under Shortwave, Midwave, and Longwave UV.

There was a recent post in the FMS Fluorescent Mineral Group on Facebook discussing the fluorescence of scheelite under LW UV (UVA). I...

Fibrous Radiating Wollastonite, Maricopa Co., Arizona

This is a small, but interesting specimen of fluorescent wollastonite from an uncommon location. Collected from an unknown mine in...

Genthelvite - rare from Sterling Hill, NJ

Genthelvite (with a hard "G") is not uncommon throughout the world but it is very rare at the Sterling Hill Zinc Mine in Ogdensberg, NJ....