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Adamite, Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico

This is an interesting specimen of adamite from the Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico. As is the case with many fluorescent minerals,...

Septarian Nodule, Orderville, Utah

This is a polished slice of a septarian nodule from the famous Muddy Creek location in Orderville, Kane Co., Utah. The interior of these...

Fluorite, Rampgill mine, Cumbria, England

Numerous mines in Northern England have produced beautiful fluorite specimens. Of interest to fluorescent mineral collectors is that...

Tiffany Stone, Delta, Utah

Tiffany stone is a complex rock composed of opalized fluorite with bands and veins of chalcedony, manganese oxide and bertrandite. The...

Unique Multi-Wave Calcite from Cave-In-Rock, IL

This calcite was mined by the Griffith family in 2017 from their private commercial specimen mining operation located in Hastie's quarry...

Fluorite and Calcite, Pure Potential Mine, Arizona

Calcite and Fluorite combinations rarely get boring. This one has a very unique fluorite pattern within the primarily calcite matrix....

Hemimorphite, Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico

Light-colored crystals of hemimorphite on a red/brown limonitic gossan matrix, collected from the Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico. ...

Aragonite and Calcite on Pumice; Taupo, New Zealand

Who would have thought a fluorescent rock that floats?!? Here's aragonite and calcite on pumice from Taupo, New Zealand. The area around...

Turkey Fat Smithsonite, Rush Historic District, Arkansas

Simply, one of the best mineral names in fluorescent rocks. Turkey Fat Smithsonite, from the Rush Historic District, Marion County,...

Fluorescent Multi-Wave Calcite from the Elmwood Mine

Every so often, a common location will produce a very uncommon specimen. The Elmwood mine, a zinc mine located in Carthage, Tennessee,...

Rare Green Fluorescent Fluorite, Fourmile Creek, Colorado

Fluorite is a mineral that occurs in many different colors and habits, and is often fluorescent under UV. Most commonly, fluorite shows...

Willemite and Calcite. Broken Hill, Zambia (Africa)

Radial brownish Willemite concretions with a 2nd generation growth of white cristals. These fluoresce very bright and willemite has...

Vesuvian Mix from Pompeii disaster

This mineral comes from Somma-Vesuvius Complex (Naples, Italy). It was found around 1960s in the pumice layers of the 79 DC Vesuvius ...

Hydrozincite and Calcite, Goodsprings, Nevada

Two specimens from the Yellow Pine Mine in Goodsprings, Nevada. The first is both Calcite and Hydrozincite, and the second is the...

Snowball Geode from Trancas, Chihuahua, Mexico

Geodes are great fun. They're much better than Easter Eggs during an egg hunt, and this one was found during such an escapade. Momma...

Catapleiite; Norra Kärr, Gränna, Jönköping, Småland, Sweden

Catapleiite is not a well known mineral, nor is it very common in fluorescent collections. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean it's...

Calcite, Willemite and Rhodonite, Franklin, New Jersey

This is a classic mineral association from Franklin, New Jersey; brightly fluorescent calcite and willemite in combination with pink...

Scheelite, Hyalite from the Princess Pat Mine, Adelanto, CA

Scheelite (fl white) & hyalite (fl green) from P Pat. Super bright because it's a completely fresh face.

Polylithionite from Greenland

Plates of silvery polylithionite mica and pink crystals of eudialyte dominate this specimen from Kangerluarssaq fjord, Ilímaussaq...

Smithsonite (?) on Diopside (?) from the Red Raven Mine Adelanto, CA

Diopside (fl blue & yellow), smithsonite (fl red) under 253.7nm SW from the Red Raven Mine in Adelanto, CA. All mineral identifications...