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Fluorescent Mineral Photo Gallery

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Ruby - Froland, Aust-Agder, Norway

Macro photos of dark purple ruby crystals in a matrix of muscovite and feldspar. Famous locale for nice crystals with bright red...

Yttrofluorite, Hundholmen, Norway

Yttrofluorite is defined as fluorite (CaF2), where the rare earth element yttrium replaces some of the calcium atoms, and therefore has...

Calcites from Sardinia, Italy

Three red fluorescent calcities from Sardinia, Italy. - The first one is a very beautiful specimen in daylight too. Quartz and galena...

Calcite from Monteriggioni, Italy

On the typical yellow limestone matrix of this italian locality, there are several calcite cristals. Their color varies from white to...

Opal, Sepiolite. Cerro de los Batallones, Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain.

Opal, Sepiolite. Cerro de los Batallones, Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain. The green fluorescence with an orange contrast due to clay...

Constante Mine, Santa Marta, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain.

Santa Marta is a new location for fluorescent minerals in Spain. It is also home to the Mugemisa geological and mining museum where you...

More Fluorescents from Israel

As mentioned in a previous post, I enjoyed a recent business trip to Israel. Fortunately for me, the original hotel where I was to stay...

Phosphorescent Limestone, Mount Shaul, Israel (yes, Israel).

Israel is not known for it's fluorescent rocks. Or really any rocks at all, as laws apparently prevent collecting samples to sell (with...

Pyromorphite Resuperferolitica Mine, Spain.

Pyromorphite. Resuperferolitica Mine, Minas Viejas, Santa Eufemia, Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain. These mines developed their maximum...

Scalenoedric Calcite "dog's tooth" from La Cruz mine, Spain.

Scalenoedric calcite "dog's tooth". La Cruz mine, El Cobre stream, Linares, Linares-La Carolina district, Jaén, Andalusia, Spain. The...

Acicular Aragonite.

Acicular Aragonite "aka" Aragonito de Pantoja. Deposit located in the municipality of Pantoja in Toledo. This municipality is...

Fluorite Barite with coating from Moscona mine. Spain.

Fluorite and Barite of pale fluorescence with a coating of rare sand give it a contrast that makes it really aesthetic. 90x 60 mm Under...

Calcite from Moscona mine.

Scalenohedral Calcite with inclusions of pyrite and rare sand coating possible response with a nice orange color combined with rosaceo...

Calcite, Fluorite, Pyrite from Moscona Mine.

Moscona mine. More known for its fluorites of unusual white fluorescence with long phosphorescence in some samples being more common in...

Smithonite, Hidrozincite, Fluorite, Calcite.

Smithonita, Hidrozincita, Fluorita, Calcita. Mina Eduardo, Güéjar Sierra, Granada, España.

Margarosanite and Calcite from the Jakobsberg Mine, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

This rock is from the Jakobsberg mine, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden, and consists of a fine grained, olive/tan colored matrix with calcite...

Apatite Jumillite Calcite Chalcedony

Apatite, Jumillita, Calcite, Chalcedony. Nuestra señora del Carmen mine ", La Celia, Jumilla, Murcia, Spain. The apatite is shown orange...

Fluorite with Phantoms, Moscona Mine, Spain

Here's a beautiful fluorite with phantoms from the Moscona Mine in Asturias, Spain. Not the typical blue, but instead a very soft cream...

Hackmanite, Cryolite, and Feldspar; Kola Peninsula, Russia

Some think this piece looks like a cross between Nemo and Dory, regardless, it's an interesting and allegedly relatively rare. It's...

Tugtupite, Chkalovite and Arfvedsonite, Tasseq Slope, Ilímaussaq complex, Greenland

Mottled white to grey colored rock consisting of light colored tugtupite and grey chkalovite, with back needle-like crystals of...