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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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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...
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Pyromorphite Resuperferolitica Mine, Spain.
Pyromorphite. Resuperferolitica Mine, Minas Viejas, Santa Eufemia, Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain. These mines developed their maximum...
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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...
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Acicular Aragonite.
Acicular Aragonite "aka" Aragonito de Pantoja. Deposit located in the municipality of Pantoja in Toledo. This municipality is...
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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...
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Calcite from Moscona mine.
Scalenohedral Calcite with inclusions of pyrite and rare sand coating possible response with a nice orange color combined with rosaceo...
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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...
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Smithonite, Hidrozincite, Fluorite, Calcite.
Smithonita, Hidrozincita, Fluorita, Calcita. Mina Eduardo, Güéjar Sierra, Granada, España.
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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...
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Apatite Jumillite Calcite Chalcedony
Apatite, Jumillita, Calcite, Chalcedony. Nuestra señora del Carmen mine ", La Celia, Jumilla, Murcia, Spain. The apatite is shown orange...
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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...
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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...
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Tugtupite, Chkalovite and Arfvedsonite, Tasseq Slope, IlÃmaussaq complex, Greenland
Mottled white to grey colored rock consisting of light colored tugtupite and grey chkalovite, with back needle-like crystals of...
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Tugtupite, Sodalite, and Other Favorites from the Tasseq Slope, Greenland
Brick-shaped rock consisting of white to light pink tugtupite, light colored sodalite (var. hackmanite), grey analcime, chkalovite and...
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Fluorite, Rampgill mine, Cumbria, England
Numerous mines in Northern England have produced beautiful fluorite specimens. Of interest to fluorescent mineral collectors is that...
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Vesuvian Mix from Pompeii disaster
This mineral comes from Somma-Vesuvius Complex (Naples, Italy). It was found around 1960s in the pumice layers of the 79 DC Vesuvius ...
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Catapleiite; Norra Kärr, Gränna, Jönköping, Småland, Sweden
Catapleiite is not a well known mineral, nor is it very common in fluorescent collections. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean it's...
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Polylithionite from Greenland
Plates of silvery polylithionite mica and pink crystals of eudialyte dominate this specimen from Kangerluarssaq fjord, IlÃmaussaq...
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Calcite Aragonite from Boccheggiano, Tuscany (Italy)
(English version) The worldwide denomination aragostrontianite for this mineral is incorrect. This carbonate tipical of Bocchieggiano /...
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Meta-Autunite Torbernite 'Green Garden' from Portugal
Here a beautiful mix of Autunite and Torbernite from Assunçao (Portugal). On a gray rock matrix are several crystals of Meta-Autunite...
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