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Fluorescent Mineral Photo Gallery

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Brightly Fluorescent Hyalite Opal from the Erongo Mountains, Namibia

This brilliantly fluorescent specimen from the Erongo Mountains of Namibia features colorless to greenish-yellow, transparent, glassy...

Complex Twinned Calcite, Sambava, Madagascar

During 2004-2005, a limited find of morphologically complex, multiply twinned, light yellow, gemmy calcite was made in the cavities of a...

Red Fluorescent Fluorite from Morocco

Red fluorescence in fluorite is uncommon and is a response that is typically brightest under long wave UV (365 nm). Two notable...

Eucryptite from Namibia

This is a large slab cut from a big Eucryptite nodule. From a new location! Strathmore pegmatites, Cape Cross area, Erongo Region,...

Cerussite on Dolomite crystals from Morocco.

Twinned dipyramidal crystals (cyclic twin) of Cerussite on rhombohedral Dolomite micro crystals with intense red UVC fluo, Cerussite is...

Fluorescent Gem Scapolite from Tanzania

This sparkling little gem scapolite crystal was a find at the 2018 Tucson Gem & Mineral Show. Its country of origin is Tanzania, but the...

Slow to Glow Hemimorphite from the Skorpion Mine, Namibia

Hemimorphite is a zinc silicate hydrate mineral that is found in various locations worldwide. Most hemimorphite specimens show little or...

Cerussite, Barite - Les Dalles Mine, Mibladen, Morocco

Macro photo of a large (18mm) translucent yellow stepped cerussite crystal, perched on blades of pink and yellow barite. In MW the...

Zircon - Kasungu, Malawi

A large chocolate brown zircon crystal from Malawi exhibiting yellow SW fluorescence. Lit by a 15w Glw Stck. Specimen is 54 x 38 x 36mm.

Multi-Wavelength Fluorite from Aouli, Morocco

This gemmy cluster of yellow fluorite cubes from Aouli, Morocco makes a nice display specimen under normal light. Under UV, however, it...

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...

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...

Tarbuttite; Broken Hill Mine, Zambia

Here's a quartet of Tarbuttite specimens from the Broken Hill Mine in Kabwe Zambia. Though not as bright as the material from the...

Zinc Minerals Willemite and Smithsonite from Tsumeb, Namibia.

Green Willemite and white-tan Smithsonite -as described in Robbins (1994). Willemite covers about half of the surface of the specimen...

Olmiite, Nchwaning Mine II, South Africa

A small (2.5 inch) olmiite and calcite from the Nchwaning Mine II in South Africa. The Olmiite fluoresces a deep red, in all wavelengths....

Soft pastel green sheaves of Tarbuttite, very fluorescent under longwave UV - from the Skorpion Mine

Soft pastel green sheaves of Tarbuttite - Skorpion Mine, Rosh Pinah, Karas Region, Namibia Size : 80mm across. 1st pic in Longwave UV -...

Fluorite cluster, Riemvasmaak, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

Courtesy of Marco Frigerio (Classic Rocks and Gems) - Facebook Large Fluorite cluster, Riemvasmaak, Kakamas, ZF Mgcawu District,...

Tenebrescent Hemimorphite, Fluorapatite, Tarbuttite; Skorpion Mine, Namibia

Though our collection isn't very extensive, this is without a doubt, the most unique piece we have. First of all, the color patterns...

Cerussite and Barite, Mibladen, Morocco

Yellowish-colored, well-formed, gemmy crystals of cerussite on a bed of galena, with minor orange barite crystals, from Mibladen, Morocco....

Hyalite Opal (Opal-An), Erongo Mountains, Namibia

Hyalite opal is almost always bright green and can be found all over the world. The opal from the Erongo Mountains in Namibia, however,...