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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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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Calcite - Fishbach, Germany
Shortwave and Midwave
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Colemanite, Bigadic Mine, Turkey
Though not a stunning fluorescent material, Colemanite is typically quite bright and sometimes phosphorescent. This specimen, from the...
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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...
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Calcite, France
Very sharp calcite needles that fluoresce a stong greenish white with an equally strong phosphorescence. Clearly some polycyclic aromatic...
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Quartz owl
Concentric rings in spheres of acicular quartz. Photo under combined LW and MW-UV (both fluorescence photos) and under white light....
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Fluorite and calcite, Durham
From Weardale, Durham, UK, comes this lovely combo. Under midwave UV you get the fluorescence of both the fluorite and the calcite....
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Calcite, aragonite and cerussite
On less than 1 cm² we find these three minerals. Calcite fluoresces red, aragonite fluoresces greenish white, cerussite is intergrown...
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Aragonite in clay
A spray of aragonite embedded in clay. From Pantoja, Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. The spray is about 2 cm wide. Source: Fluorescent...
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Mixture of aragonite and cerussite
This is not Tarnowitsite, the plumbo-aragonite variety, but rather a mixture of aragonite and cerussite. The latter causes the yellowish...
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Fluorescent Scheelite Veins in Quartzite, Mittersill, Salzburg, Austria
This is a cut quartzite slab containing veins of scheelite with minor mica schist. From the Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten AG Mine,...
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Fluorite from the Rogerley Mine, Weardale, Co. Durham, England
Gemmy, green cubes of fluorite with minor non-fluorescent galena on a light brown matrix, from the source of some of the most beautiful...
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La Sassa Radiating Quartz Nodules in Calcite - Italy
In the early 70’s a small deposit of bright yellow fluorescing quartz was discovered near the town of La Sassa, Tuscany, Italy. The...
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Spodumene from the Haapaluoma Mine, Finland
The fluorescent mineral is spodumene but the piece has all kinds of other minerals - quite pretty under white light. I find the MW...
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Root Beer Calcite - Clashgorm Mine, Scotland
From the Clashgorm Mine, Strontian, Argyllshire. Scotland. It was collected in 1998. I was fascinated by the concentric triangles shown...
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Celestite and Sulfur from Sicily, Italy
Here's a specimen of Celestite crystals and sulfur on matrix from Sicily, Italy. A fairly bright specimen and does have a slight color...
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Barite on Calcite - Italy
Old-time specimen from Sicily - simply amazing. Sadly I only have this SW picture. Currently in the collection of Earl V.
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