A quatuor of fluorescent fluorites
Anyone with a basic fluorescent minerals collection has a blue-fluorescing fluorite, the most common color in fluorescent fluorites; many...
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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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Calcite, with strong "brief intense phosphorescence" - Estrie, Quebec, Canada
This calcite specimen, with the typical red fluorescence (best MW, then SW, then LW, as it's often the case with red fluorescing...
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Fluorescent calcite, with quartz crystals - Estrie, Quebec, Canada
Nice small cabinet-sized specimen, consisting of calcite crystals, over milky quartz crystals. As it's often the case with typical red...
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Calcite from the area of Salaberry-De-Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada
Shown here is a pretty nice cabinet-sized specimen of calcite with dolomite, on a dolostone matrix, found near the town of...
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Hackmanite, feldspar, astrophyllite, etc, from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Shown in the slideshow below is a nice combination piece consisting mostly of brightly fluorescing hackmanite, with some SW fluorescing...
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Quartz with fluorescent hydrocarbon inclusions, from the Grant Quarry near Greely, Ontario, Canada
While not being spectacularly bright, this specimen is still pretty interesting because fluorescent inclusions in quartz crystals from...
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Fluorescent combo from the Long Lake Zinc Mine, near Parham, Ontario, Canada
Shown here is a nice specimen of fluorescent calcitic marble from this well-known Canadian locale. The most abundant mineral is the red...
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Fluorescent albite, with scapolite, from the Laurentians, Quebec, Canada
Shown here is a nice cabinet-sized specimen of calc-silicated skarn rock containing scapolite (typical bright yellow response under LW),...
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Fluorescent and phosphorescent fluorite from Hamilton, Ontario
Nice crystals of light yellowish-amber fluorite, lining a vug in dolomitic limestone. From the famous Flamboro Quarry (often misspelled...
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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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Chabazite from the Laurentians, Quebec, Canada
Here is a nice little cabinet specimen of quite brightly fluorescing chabazite crystals, on an orthogneiss matrix, from a secret locality...
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Bright 3 colors fluorescent calcite from Cap-Chat, Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec, Canada
Small but pretty nice cabinet specimen of highly fluorescent calcite from a rarely heard-of locality in the Gaspe peninsula (Gaspésie) in...
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Brightly fluorescent calcite from Sainte-Anne-Des-Monts, Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec, Canada
In daylight, calcite specimens from this rarely heard-of (and now depleted) locale are not quite spectacular; just white rhombohedral...
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LW, MW & SW tenebrescent hackmanite - Davis Quarry, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada
Beautiful specimen of sodalite var. hackmanite, from the now inaccessible Davis quarry, near Bancroft. This specimen was given to me by a...
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LW, MW & SW tenebrescent hackmanite - Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada
Nice cabinet-sized specimen of sodalite var. hackmanite, from a recent find in the District of Sudbury, in Ontario, Canada. It is...
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LW, MW & SW tenebrescent hackmanite - Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada
Small but pretty nice specimen of sodalite var. hackmanite, from a recent find in the District of Sudbury, in Ontario, Canada. It is...
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LW, MW & SW tenebrescent hackmanite - Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada
Shown here is a nice cabinet-sized specimen of sodalite var. hackmanite, from a recent find in the District of Sudbury, in Ontario,...
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Polylithionite rosette from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
While not being of considerable size, this is one of the most aesthetic specimens in my collection. It consists of a well-formed rosette...
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Fluorescent calcite, from the Canal dump (Montrose occurrence), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
During many years, this Canadian locality has been quite popular; really nice specimens of calcite, dolomite, fluorite, etc, were found...
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Fluorescent calcite on dolomite, from Sainte-Clotilde-De-Châteauguay, Quebec, Canada
The Sainte-Clotilde quarry (formerly Marcil quarry) near the village of Sainte-Clotilde-De-Châteauguay in Montérégie, Québec, now...
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