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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Phosgenite from Monteponi
Calcite on Fluorite from Moscona Mine, Spain.
Lepidolite Microcline from Padrón river, Estepona, Malaga, Spain.
Foyaite Igneous Rock from Monchique complex, Monchique, Faro, Portugal.
Alexandrite in Beryl var. Emerald from A Franqueira, A Cañiza, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain.
Sørensenite, Tugtupite. Kvanefjeld, Ilímaussaq complex, Kujalleq, Greenland
Scheelite, La Parrilla mine (Adelaida open pit mine), Almoharín, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain.
Sellaite - Fluorite from Fontsante (France)
Hydrozincite and Smithsonite from Zorzone, Italy
Fluorite and its different responses under UV light.
Sodalite (Hackmanite) with Chkalovite, Phosphorescent Greenland
Chalcedoy & Unknown from Batallones Hill, Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain
Brightly Fluorescent Tugtupite from the Taseq Slope, Ilimaussaq complex, Kujalleq, Greenland
Green Sodalite, Kangerlussaq, Greenland
Schalenblende, Raibl Mines, Tarvisio, Italy
"Fantasy rock" from Taseq West, Ilímaussaq complex, Kujalleq, Greenland
Hackmanite from Narsaq, Illmaussaq complex, Greenland
Multi-Wavelength Aragonite, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy
Charoite, Aegirine, Microcline, Tinkasite, and Steacyite, MurMurunskii Massif, Russia
Willemite, Fluorite, Calcite. Garpenberg, Sweden.