Pollucite, a Rare Fluorescent Cesium-Containing Zeolite Mineral
Here’s one for the connoisseur of rare fluorescent mineral species. Pollucite, a cesium-containing zeolite, isn’t particularly rare in...
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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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New find - 3 colors longwave scapolite, prehnite and calcite, from Quebec, Canada
During an exploration trip with one of my partners on April 30 2022, in the area of Saint-Michel-De-Wentworth, north-east of...
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New find - 3 colors longwave scapolite, prehnite and calcite, from Quebec, Canada
During an exploration trip with one of my partners on April 30 2022, in the area of Saint-Michel-De-Wentworth, north-east of...
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New find - 2 colors longwave scapolite and prehnite, from Quebec, Canada
During an exploration trip with one of my partners on April 30 2022, in the area of Saint-Michel-De-Wentworth, north-east of...
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World-class fluorescent & phosphorescent selenite from Manitoba, Canada
Pristine, complete all around, world-class specimen of golden gypsum var. selenite from the Red River Floodway, Winnipeg, Manitoba,...
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Fluorescent & phosphorescent selenite from Manitoba, Canada
Nice specimen of gypsum var. selenite from the Red River Floodway, Winnipeg, Manitoba. In the first picture, the specimen is shown...
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Agrellite from Kipawa, Québec, Canada
Shown here is a truely gorgeous specimen of agrellite (bright pink fluorescence under shortwave and midwave UV, best midwave; weak orange...
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Fluorescent calcite and agate, in a geode from the Gaspé peninsula, Quebec, Canada
While it is far from being my most impressive and brightest fluorescent mineral specimen, I thought this one was worthy of being posted...
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"Optical" calcite - Gatineau area, Quebec, Canada
The specimen shown here, while not having the most spectacular brightness, is still a really nice display piece. Its transparency makes...
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Agrellite, with albite and uranyl-activated green fluorescence from Kipawa, Quebec, Canada
Nice three colors combo from the famous Kipawa alkaline complex in Western Quebec, Canada. I like how well balanced the colors are on...
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Scapolite (Var. "Wernerite"), from Grenville, Quebec, Canada, with green gemmy areas in daylight
Shown here is a nice cabinet-sized specimen of dark green scapolite Var. "wernerite", from Grenville-Sur-La-Rouge, Quebec, Canada. It is...
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Calcite with dolomite and quartz, from Sainte-Clotilde, Québec, Canada
The now inaccessible Chenail quarry (Formerly Marcil quarry), in Sainte-Clotilde-de-Châteauguay, Montérégie, Québec, Canada, is a classic...
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Tenebrescent blue sodalite, zircon, feldspar, etc, from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
This is one of many specimens I recovered from a boulder in the quarry in Mont Saint-Hilaire in 2018. While it's far from being the best...
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Two colors longwave UV fluorescent specimen from Grenville-Sur-La-Rouge, Québec, Canada
This specimen consists of a combination of scapolite, with an unidentified mineral that glows very bright light blue under longwave UV....
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Fluorescent and phosphorescent calcite from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Nice small cabinet specimen, consisting of two successive generations of calcite, from the world-renowned Poudrette Quarry in Mont...
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"Rainbow" assortment of longwave UV reactive minerals
As all experienced fluorescent minerals collectors know, shortwave UV is the wavelength under which there's the greatest variety of...
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Violet laser reactive "optical calcite" from the area of Gatineau, Qc, Canada
Small calcite cleavage from a now depleted small occurrence near Gatineau, in Outaouais, Quebec, Canada. Fluoresces pretty nicely under...
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Multicolor fluorescent calcite from the area of Gatineau, Qc, Canada
In daylight, this specimen is something most collectors would not even bother looking at; but since I knew calcite from this locale,...
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LW violet fluorite from the Rogers Mine, Madoc, Ontario, Canada
Fluorite specimens from this locale are quite popular, especially in Canada, among collectors of "white light minerals", but rarely...
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Fluorescent mica from three different localities
Last year, one of my partners and I found lots of SW UV reactive phlogopite in the Lower Laurentians, Quebec, Canada, often associated...
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