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Fluorescent Mineral Photo Gallery

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Hydrozincite and lead

This hydrozincite comes from the Minas de Altaiz, in the Picos de Europa National Park in the Norts of Spain. The fluorescence is due to...

Calcite, France

Very sharp calcite needles that fluoresce a stong greenish white with an equally strong phosphorescence. Clearly some polycyclic aromatic...

Quartz owl

Concentric rings in spheres of acicular quartz. Photo under combined LW and MW-UV (both fluorescence photos) and under white light....

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....

Calcite, aragonite and cerussite

On less than 1 cm² we find these three minerals. Calcite fluoresces red, aragonite fluoresces greenish white, cerussite is intergrown...

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...

Halite, the salty one

Source: Fluorescent Minerals Workgroup MKA Halite from Fulda, Germany. This specimen died in July 2013. We were staying at Kitty and Bill...

Calcite and "caliche"

From the Brunita Mine, La Union, Murcia, Spain. A nice sandwich of calcite between layers of caliche. Seen under LW_UV. (courtesy of the...

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...

Anglesite from Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, Province of Carbonia-Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy

Anglesite from Monteponi under natural light, LW (purple) and MW (greenish) UV Source: Axel Emmermann, MKA http://fluo.mineralogie.be/ind...

Aragonite, Calcite, Sphalerite from the Passa Limani Locality in Greece

Some white fluorescing (SW) aragonite with red fl. calcite and orange fl. sphalerite from the Greek Passa Limani slag mineral locality....

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Autunite - La Faye Mine, Grury, Issy-l'Evêque, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Autunite from France - a classic locality offering spectacular specimens. The closeup below was posted to the FLM group on FB by...

Hyalite (opal-AN) specimens from Hungary, Zemplén, Tarcal

I made a tribute to Hyalites from Hungary, Zemplén, Tarcal. Specimens are shown in normal, UV-C and some in UV-A light. All frames are...