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Scapolite and Calcite, Sterling Hill, New Jersey

This rock contains an assemblage of light, colorless scapolite and calcite and dark franklinite, from the famous Sterling Mine, Sterling...

Calcite, Willemite and Fluorite from the Hogan Claim, Wickenburg area, Arizona

This spectacular rock contains an assemblage of fluorescent calcite, willemite and fluorite in a brown/red-colored groundmass, and is...

Fluorescent Calcite Vein in Wheeler Shale, Delta, UT

This is a simple, but interesting fluorescent specimen that dates back to the age of the trilobites. A vein of light-colored calcite...

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,...

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...

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...

Marialite-Meionite Scapolite ("Wernerite"), Rose Road, Pitcairn, New York

This multi-wave fluorescent specimen contains wernerite, diopside and minor calcite, collected from the Purple Diopside Mound (PDM), Rose...

Blades of Calcite, Inner Mongolia, China

Calcite comes in many forms and variations: poker chips, pagodas, crystals, massive, and many other forms. Here's an interesting bladed...

Brightly Fluorescent Diopside in Calcite, Fort Ann, New York

This is a spectacular fluorescent Diopside specimen that rivals most Franklin material for brightness. Collected in 1995 from a roadcut...

Fluorescent/Phosphorescent Fluorite on Calcite, Pint's Quarry, Raymond, Iowa

Amber-colored, cubic fluorite crystals on a bed of scalenohedral calcite, on limestone matrix, from Pint's Quarry, Raymond, Black Hawk...

Brightly Fluorescent and Phosphorescent Celestine, Strontianite and Calcite, Lime City, Ohio

Beautiful fluorescent specimen consisting of clusters of celestine and calcite crystals, from the Stoneco Quarry, Lime City, Wood Co.,...

Wollastonite, Calcite, and Hydrozincite, Big Yellow Mine, Utah

This is a small, but spectacular fluorescent specimen, collected in 2016 from the Big Yellow Mine, located on the back side of Indian...

Calcite Cleavage Rhomb, Challenger Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

A brightly fluorescent and phosphorescent calcite cleavage rhomb from Challenger Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. This specimen shows classic...

Willemite Lightning in a Hardystonite Sky

Spectacular under short wave UV, green fluorescent willemite lightning bolts flash in a blue hardystonite sky in this specimen from the...

Crazy Calcite, Franklin, New Jersey

Crazy calcite is an unofficial local name applied to a type of rock containing dolomite in calcite from Franklin, New Jersey, that...

Calcite, Willemite - Puttapa Australia

A nice 3.75" example from Puttapa Australia. From the Warrington collection, WA. Photographed under LW and SW with a 60mm macro lens at...

Apatite, Hydrozincite, Microcline, Calcite - Sterling Hill NJ

A large specimen from Sterling Hill measuring 6 x 3 x 2" weighing 1lb 13oz.

Calcite, Willemite, Smithsonite - Puttapa Australia

This is a recent barn find rescue. A fabulous fluorescent example from Puttapa Australia. This rock weighs 1 lb 9 oz and is about 5"...

Fluorescent Fossil Clams, Pipe Creek Jr. Quarry, Marion, Indiana

And now for something a little different! This is a fossil comprised of bivalve mollusk shells in limestone, from the Pipe Creek Jr....

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...