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Fluorescent Mineral Photo Gallery

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Willemite Crystals, Peyrebrune, Tarn, France

Small (approximately 1mm) hexagonal white crystals of willemite on a dark unidentified matrix, from the lead/zinc/silver mine of...

Daylight Fluorescent Fluorite from the Famous Rogerley Mine

Daylight fluorescence is a phenomenon where some fluorescent minerals show a noticeable color change under sunlight, due to the UV...

Witherite, Calcite, Baryte, and more! North Yorkshire, England

England has some very interesting and famous fluorescent materials. Material from the Danby Level, Northside Mines, Whaw, Arkengarthdale,...

"Black" Calcite from Belgium

This is a so-called "black" calcite from the Gralex quarry, Mont-sur-Marchienne (near Charleroi), Hainout Province, Belgium. These...

Cadmium Smithsonite and Quartz, County Clare, Ireland

The Emerald Isle seems to be woefully under-represented when it comes to fluorescent minerals. However, here's a nice little piece from...

Calcite - Fishbach, Germany

Shortwave and Midwave

Wavellite sphere with unusual crystals

Wavellite: Kielce District, Świętokrzyskie Mts (Holy Cross Mts), Świętokrzyskie, Poland The specimen has a broken wavellite sphere on a...

Small but pretty anglesite crystal

Anglesite from Monteponi, Sardinia, Italy. Weak yellowish fluorescence in SW-UV.

Celestite on aragonite

Blue-green celestine on aragonite. The celestine fluoresces a color that is hard to describe... somewhere between tan and grey. The...

Fluorapatite in Jumillaite

Jumillaite is not a recognized mineral species. It's a post-volcanic mixture of different silicates, such as analcime, leucite and...

A large cabinet sized calcite from Belgium

Quite a bolder and a quite pretty bicolored one! Locatlity: Bertrix, Luxemburg, Belgium. I haven't a clue what causes the somewhat...

Colemanite, Bigadic Mine, Turkey

Though not a stunning fluorescent material, Colemanite is typically quite bright and sometimes phosphorescent. This specimen, from the...

From a Belgian karst region: calcite

Belgium has quite a few calcite quarries that yield fluorescent specimens. There's one at Chanxhes, near Liège, in the Liège Province....

Gypsum with hourglass

This gypsum is waterclear but contains some humic acids. This organic stuff is accumulated more rapidly in the faster growing direction...

The good Samariumitan's Aragonite

Samarium drives the fluorescence of this aragonite/calcite. It's more of a mix, phases of the carbonates, rather than any pure mineral....

Deep under the sea... aragonite

This banded aragonite has formed on the sea-floor by compression of all kind of small skeletons and shells of living creatures. Photo in...

Aragonite on calcite, Belgium

A wonderfull spray of aragonite needles on red fluorescing calcite. This is not a stack or even a digital image... It's the first slide...

Topaz, var. pycnite

A large specimen with columnar crystals of this topaz variety. The fluorescence is medium to weak but still very visible. Photo in LW-UV....

Hydrozincite and calcite

This calcite and hydrozincite combo comes from an old Belgian lead/zinc mine near Plombières, Liège province, Belgium. The locality is no...

Passa Limani slag combo

Calcite, aragonite and sphalerite from the Passa Limani slag locality, Lavrion, Attica, Greece. Source: Fluorescent Minerals Workgroup MKA