Salmon Calcite Veins in Calcite, Franklin Mine, New Jersey, USA
Salmon calcite looks like fresh, raw salmon. For the sushi aficionados and fisherman alike, you understand. This piece has veins of...
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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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Salmon Calcite, Sterling Hill Mine, New Jersey, USA
Salmon calcite matches its namesake—raw salmon. This piece is composed of beautiful crystals of the pink colored calcite and weighs in at...
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Wollastonite, Sterling Hill Mine, New Jersey, USA
Wollastonite is a relatively common, but still sought after fluorescent material from the Sterling Hill Mine. This specimen, weighing in...
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Brightly Fluorescent and Radioactive Andersonite from Utah
Brightly fluorescent andersonite with a minor metamunirite druse, from the D Day #2 Mine, Yellow Cat District, Grand County, Utah. ...
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Happy Holidays! Christmas Calcite from the Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, New Jersey
This is a classic specimen of "Christmas Calcite" from the Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, New Jersey. This material contains...
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Brick Red Willemite (troostite) and Calcite, Franklin, New Jersey
This specimen, from Franklin, New Jersey, is of mixed composition and contains brick-red willemite (troostite), white and greenish/white...
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Terlingua-Type Calcite from an Uncommon Midwestern Location- Indianapolis, Indiana
This is an unusual specimen of pink to white colored cleavage rhombs of calcite on limestone matrix, that show a Terlingua-type...
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Orange Fluorescent Sphalerite, Balmat, New York
This specimen contains light colored veins and masses of sphalerite in a dark matrix, from Balmat, St. Lawrence Co., New York. The...
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Calcite from Eminence, MO
MW and SW UV Exposure
Date Shot: 2016/09/17 20:31:38.00
Nikon D3200 Lens: VR 18-55mm f/3.5-5
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Fluorite from the Rogerley Mine, Weardale, Co. Durham, England
Gemmy, green cubes of fluorite with minor non-fluorescent galena on a light brown matrix, from the source of some of the most beautiful...
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Multicolored Birdseye Sphalerite Set, Balmat, NY
Here is a set of three different Birdseye Sphalerite pieces from the Zinc Corporation of America Mine #4 in Balmat, NY. This sphalerite...
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Anthophyllite, Talc, Tremolite - Talcville, NY
A number of these pieces from an old 60s collection hit the market over the last year. This is one of the more interesting examples. It...
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Multi-Wave Calcite from the Heart of America’s Dairyland
Wisconsin is famous for its dairy production and badgers, but is not generally known as a source of fluorescent minerals. In 1826, lead...
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Calcite Crystals in a Septarian Nodule from Grayson County, Texas
Lovely bright pale yellow fluorescent calcite crystals in a septarian nodule found in Grayson County, Texas. Calcite crystals within a...
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A Fluorescent Classic- Calcite and Willemite from the Franklin Mine, Franklin, New Jersey
This is a classic fluorescent specimen from the Franklin Mine, in Franklin, New Jersey- the self-proclaimed "Fluorescent Mineral Capital...
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Fluorescent Halite, Detroit Salt Company Mine, Detroit, Michigan
Many people don't realize that located 1200 feet below the city of Detriot, Michigan, lies a massive, active, underground salt mine. The...
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Sterling Hill Fluorescent Zincite
As I've posted before, I am a big fan of powerful, true 365nm UV light from LED flashlights. It allows me to find stuff that is...
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Pink Tugtupite, Chkalovite, Analcime - from the Taseq Slope, Ilimaussaq Complex, Greenland
This is a very nice piece of tugtupite from the Taseq Slope (east). It is the first find we made of tugtupite from an area that was not...
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Not exactly rare but rarely seen yellow-fluorescing Calcite from Sterling Hill, NJ
At Sterling Hill, most collectors highly favor searching with short wave UV, ignoring long wave almost entirely. That's too bad because...
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A Midwestern Beauty: Multi-Wave Calcite Crystals, Sweetwater Mine, Reynolds County, Missouri
This is a cluster of milky white calcite crystals from the Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri,...
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