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This interesting and unique fluorescent specimen looks like something you'd expect to find in an underwater coral reef. Collected from...

This very delicate and aesthetic specimen is from the historic Minerva No. 1 Mine in the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District of Southern...

The Crystal Mine, one of many fluorspar mines in the historic Cave-In-Rock mining district of Southern Illinois, is not a well-known...

Moscona Mine, located in El Pontón de Solís region, town of Corvera de Asturias, in Spain. The fluorite in this location appears in the...

This is an old Sellaite (with minor Fluorite) specimen coming from the BRGM (Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières) in Paris...

The classic fluorescent mineral, but all fluorites are not luminescent under UV ! Showing here some fluorites with different responses...

Nice cabinet-sized specimen of calcite (red fluorescence), willemite (green fluorescence) and fluorite (blue fluorescence), from the Hull...

Red fluorescence in fluorite is uncommon and is a response that is typically brightest under long wave UV (365 nm). Two notable...

Shown here is a fluorite specimen from the area of Le Muy, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, which shows an unusual light blue...

Shown here is a cute little fluorite & calcite combination specimen from the Berta quarry, that I recently acquired. Very modest specimen...

Willemite, Fluorite, Calcite. Garpenberg, Sweden Short wave green Willemite, red Calcite & Long wave blue Fluorite.

As all experienced fluorescent minerals collectors know, shortwave UV is the wavelength under which there's the greatest variety of...

The Berta quarry is an inactive quarry located on the northwest slope of the Sierra de Roques Blanques, in the municipalities of San...

Cabinet-sized specimen of fluorite from the Rogerley Mine, Rogerley Quarry, Stanhope, County Durham, England, with the typical daylight...

Fluorite specimens from this locale are quite popular, especially in Canada, among collectors of "white light minerals", but rarely...

Shown here is a modest specimen from the Milky Way pocket in the Diana Maria Mine (Sutcliffe Vein), Rogerley Quarry, Stanhope, County...

Shown here is a nice specimen of rare red-fluorescing fluorite from the Taourirt Province, Oriental Region, Morocco, that I recently...

Nice little specimen from the Chashan Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China. Interestingly, the...

Anyone with a basic fluorescent minerals collection has a blue-fluorescing fluorite, the most common color in fluorescent fluorites; many...

The Berbes mining area, in Ribadesella Asturias, Spain is a classic for Spanish minerals from its mines many world-class specimens have...