Gypsum with hourglass
This gypsum is waterclear but contains some humic acids. This organic stuff is accumulated more rapidly in the faster growing direction...
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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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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....
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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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Passa Limani slag combo
Calcite, aragonite and sphalerite from the Passa Limani slag locality, Lavrion, Attica, Greece. Source: Fluorescent Minerals Workgroup MKA
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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....
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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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