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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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Diopside and Calcite, Pitwak Mine, Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
This exceptional fluorescent specimen consists of numerous blocky diopside crystals encrusted upon and embedded within a calcite-marble...
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Bright and Colorful Multi-Wave Afghanite Specimen from Badakhshan, Afghanistan
Here's a specimen from Sar-e-Sang, Koksha Valley, Badakhshan, Afghanistan that displays well under both UV and visible light. When...
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Sodalite Var. Hackmanite from Afghanistan
Nice little specimen of deeply tenebrescent hackmanite with [richterite?] from the Koksha Valley, Kuran Wa Munjan District, Badakhshan,...
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"Multiwave" fluorescent phlogopite from Afghanistan
Nice cabinet sized specimen, consisting of a phlogopite crystal in a calcitic marble matrix, from the Koksha Valley, Badakhshan Province,...
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Unusual Hauyne Crystals from Afghanistan
This specimen is from Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan. The specimen contains 3 fluorescent minerals, gonnardite ((Na,Ca)2(Si,Al)5O10...
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Forsterite from Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
I replied to a question [in the FB FLM group] asked by Robert Jones about a red phosphorescent mineral in a specimen containing Lazurite...
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sodalite specimen from Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
I like to collect fluorescent rocks that also tell a story about their formation. This is a sodalite specimen from Sar-e-Sang,...
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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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Afghanistan Minerals - New Identifications
There have been several posts in our Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/fluorescentminerals) recently identifying some of...
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Phlogopite, Afghanite, Calcite, Unknowns...a different point of view
White glassy calcite matrix mainly covered by Afghanite Phlogopite and other several varieties of fluorescent and NF minerals in small...
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Kunzite (Spodumene) Kunar Valley Afghanistan.
Esta es una Spodumena var. Kuncita en matriz procedente del Valle Kunar en Afganistan. Se muestra bajo LW con una intensa respuesta...
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Phlogopite, Hackmanite, Winchite; Sar-E-Sang, Afghanistan
Phlogopite, hackmanite, and winchite from Sar-E-Sang Jurm, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. The phlogopite, a mica, glows yellow, the...
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Purple Hackmanite - Afghanistan
If you like fluorescent rocks you will really like this. I recently purchased a flat of top grade extreme color changing hackmanite mine...
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Fluorescent Afghanite Crystals on Calcite, from Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan
This is a spectacular and unique fluorescent specimen that has a lot going on under every UV wavelength. It perhaps shows the greatest...
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Afghanite
Fluoresces orange due to the disulfide ion. Exactly the same activator as with sodalite, meionite var. Wernerite, nosean, hauyne and...
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Scapolite Crystals - Badakshan, Afghanistan, the next big locality for fluorescent minerals
This rock is from Badakhshan, Afghanistan. It has purple scapolite crystals that glow red in SW. The pinkish matrix next to the large...
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This rock proves there are some major discoveries waiting to be made in Afghanistan - Sodalite and W
How 'bout you grab your UV light, hop on a plane and head out to the mines in the remote mountains of Afghanistan. I guarantee you will...
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Sodalite & var. Hackmanite - Badakhshan Afghanistan
Here are some samples of small cabinet specimens of Sodalite & var. Hackmanite from Badakhshan Afghanistan that I have been collecting....
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