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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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Aragonite - Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
This is a large (25cm x 15cm x 15 xm) coralloid formation of Aragonite from Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. I don't know if coralloid...
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Strange Fluorescent Aragonite Cave Formation, Shoals, Indiana
This is a very peculiar and interesting specimen of aragonite dripstone, collected in an unnamed cave in a limestone quarry in Shoals,...
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Calcite and Aragonite, Helvetia Mine, Arizona
Patterns of bright red fluorescing calcite with pockets of aragonite make these pieces interesting and eye-catching. Also, there appears...
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Bright Fluorescent Wollastonite, Desert View Mine, California
This specimen contains bright fluorescent wollastonite and minor calcite and aragonite, from the Desert View Mine, San Bernardino Mts,...
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Wollastonite, Calcite and Aragonite, Desert View Mine
This is an interesting 3-color fluorescent specimen from the Desert View Mine, San Bernardino Mts, San Bernardino Co., California. At...
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Spectacular Fluorescent Specimen from the Long Lake Zinc Mine, Ontario, Canada
This is a beautiful multi-colored fluorescent specimen from the Long Lake Zinc Mine, near Parham, Frontenac Co., Ontario, Canada. Under...
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Dugway Geode, Dugway Geode Beds, Juab County, Utah
Many of the geodes collected from the famous Dugway Geode Beds in the Utah West Desert show impressive green fluorescence under UV. This...
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Lava Cap Thunder Egg, Deming, New Mexico
A cut, but unpolished, Lava Cap Thunder Egg half, containing chalcedony, calcite and manganese oxide pseudomorphs, enclosed in a rhyolite...
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Calcite, Fluorite, Willemite, and Aragonite?; Hull Mine, Arizona
A really stunning piece from the Hull Mine, in Arizona. Red calcite, blue fluorite, green willemite, and potentially white...
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Calcite, aragonite and cerussite
On less than 1 cm² we find these three minerals. Calcite fluoresces red, aragonite fluoresces greenish white, cerussite is intergrown...
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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...
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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...
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Canadian Lightning Storm- Aragonite Bolts from the Long Lake Zinc Mine
Aragonite "lightning bolts" fluoresce bright blue/white on this spectacular specimen from the Long Lake Zinc Mine, Olden Township, near...
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Quartz Crystals on Calcite - San Antonio Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico
Small delicate crystal florets of yellow fluorescing quartz needles are peppered around a matrix of calcite on this striking specimen. ...
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Opal, Caliche, Aragonite, Zumwalt mine New Mexico
This specimen is from the Zumwalt mine in New Mexico. The UV photo is SW showing green opal, orange caliche, and blue aragonite. It is...
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![Mexican Geode with Fluorescent Drusy Quartz, Calcite [With Phantoms] and Phosphorescent/Fluorescent](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/721834_fa11e612eda94ba2acfc7e0ecdf7d7b4~mv2_d_3624_2694_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_1168,h_876,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/721834_fa11e612eda94ba2acfc7e0ecdf7d7b4~mv2_d_3624_2694_s_4_2.jpg)
Mexican Geode with Fluorescent Drusy Quartz, Calcite [With Phantoms] and Phosphorescent/Fluorescent
This was a fortuitous find at a local mineral show. Just like with oysters, one never knows what one will find in a geode. In addition to...
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Fluorescent Black And White Agate From Chihuahua, Mx.
Black and White agate with pockets of calcite and aragonite. Not as spectacular in daylight as Crazy Lace Agate [also from Chihuahua] but...
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Red Lightning Calcite and Aragonite, Promontory Point, Utah
An interesting little specimen from Promontory Point in Utah. The red fluorescing calcite is like a circular bolt of lightning. The...
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Helvetia Trip Report
Originally published in UV Waves, the bi-monthly publication from the Fluorescent Mineral Society. Helvetia. Just the name conjures up...
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