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Hydrozincite and lead

This hydrozincite comes from the Minas de Altaiz, in the Picos de Europa National Park in the Norts of Spain. The fluorescence is due to...

Calcite, France

Very sharp calcite needles that fluoresce a stong greenish white with an equally strong phosphorescence. Clearly some polycyclic aromatic...

In the mix: sphalerite/wurtzite

Mixture of wurtzite and sphalerite from: Horn Silver Mine, Frisco, San Francisco District, San Francisco Mts, Beaver Co., Utah, USA. When...

Afghanite

Fluoresces orange due to the disulfide ion. Exactly the same activator as with sodalite, meionite var. Wernerite, nosean, hauyne and...

Quartz owl

Concentric rings in spheres of acicular quartz. Photo under combined LW and MW-UV (both fluorescence photos) and under white light....

Swedenborgite in calcite

You can hardly distinguish between calcite and swedenborgite in white light. In SW-UV they couldn't be more different. Micheal Gaft, H....

Strontianite, Winfield, Pennsylvania

Radiating clusters of acicular crystals of off-white colored strontianite from the Winfield Quarry, Winfield, Union Co., Pennsylvania. ...

Prehnite

Prehnite from the Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Canada. Also an uncommon species in a fluorescent mineral display. Photo in LW-UV. Two...

Fluorite and calcite, Durham

From Weardale, Durham, UK, comes this lovely combo. Under midwave UV you get the fluorescence of both the fluorite and the calcite....

Scheelite and a violet laser

This scheelite from Pingwu, Sichuan, China, contains some Rare Earth Elements. As a result it fluoresces red when hit with a 405 nm...

Laumontite on prehnite

Laumontite fluoresces medium bright off-white. The prehnite matrix fluoresces extremely weak greenish. Locality: Pune, Maharashtra State,...

Vesuvianite

Vesuvianite from the Jeffrey mine. Not that often fluorescent. Under LW UV and in white light. Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources RCM,...

Calcite, aragonite and cerussite

On less than 1 cm² we find these three minerals. Calcite fluoresces red, aragonite fluoresces greenish white, cerussite is intergrown...

Fluorescent/Phosphorescent Celestine and Strontianite, Lime City, Ohio

Blocky, white, celestine crystals, partially altered to strontianite, sit on a light-colored limestone matrix, from the Stoneco Quarry,...

Aragonite in clay

A spray of aragonite embedded in clay. From Pantoja, Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. The spray is about 2 cm wide. Source: Fluorescent...

Halite, the salty one

Source: Fluorescent Minerals Workgroup MKA Halite from Fulda, Germany. This specimen died in July 2013. We were staying at Kitty and Bill...

Diamonds are forever

Diamonds can fluoresce in almost any color. A little creativity ... and there we are. Source: Fluorescent Minerals Workgroup of the MKA

Calcite and "caliche"

From the Brunita Mine, La Union, Murcia, Spain. A nice sandwich of calcite between layers of caliche. Seen under LW_UV. (courtesy of the...

Mixture of aragonite and cerussite

This is not Tarnowitsite, the plumbo-aragonite variety, but rather a mixture of aragonite and cerussite. The latter causes the yellowish...

Fluorescent Concrete, Franklin, New Jersey

This specimen is an excellent example of building with the materials at hand. It is a piece of concrete, collected from the Trotter...