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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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Witherite, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
Witherite is a relatively rare barium carbonate mineral that shows a blue/white fluorescent response under short and long wave UV. The...
Quartz, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
The Cave-In-Rock area of Hardin County, Illinois, is best known to collectors for its historical production of world-class specimens of...
Golden Barite from Elk Creek, South Dakota
Several well-formed, terminated, amber barite crystals on a dark chocolate brown matrix, from the Elk Creek area of Meade County, South...
Fluorescent Barite from Elk Creek, South Dakota
Sprays of golden amber barite crystals cover a dark chocolate brown matrix in this specimen from the Elk Creek area of Meade County,...
Interesting Zonal Fluorescence in a Barite Crystal from the Linwood mine, Buffalo, Iowa
This specimen of barite from the Linwood mine, Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa, is most interesting from a scientific perspective. It is one...
Barite, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
Cluster of white, bladed, barite crystals without matrix, with needle-like, off-white calcite crystals occurring between the central...
Celestine, Strontianite and Calcite, from the Stoneco Quarry, Lime City, Ohio
From the Stoneco Quarry, Lime City, Wood Co., Ohio, this is a beautiful Midwestern fluorescent specimen consisting of blocky, white...
Buttery Yellow Calcite, Elk Creek, South Dakota
Best known for its golden-amber colored barite crystals, the Elk Creek area of Meade County, South Dakota, also produces buttery yellow...
Calcite and Celestine, Stoneco Quarry, Lime City, Ohio
This beautiful fluorescent specimen from the Midwest features a prominent doubly-terminated calcite crystal on a limestone matrix,...
Two Generations of Calcite from Missouri
This is an interesting specimen consisting of what appears to be two generations of calcite and areas of drusy quartz, on a limestone...
Calcite Cleavage Rhomb, Cave Stone Co. Quarry, Norristown, Indiana
Although this is not one of my more brightly-fluorescent specimens, it nonetheless shows a beautiful response under UV. It is a...
Calcite, France Stone Co. Quarry, Grape, Michigan
Here’s an interesting little fluorescent specimen from an obscure Midwestern location, consisting of small clusters of honey-colored...
Strange Fluorescent Aragonite Cave Formation, Shoals, Indiana
This is a very peculiar and interesting specimen of aragonite dripstone, collected in an unnamed cave in a limestone quarry in Shoals,...
Fluorite from the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
Cluster of large, light purple, stepped, fluorite cubes, from the historic Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District, Cave-In-Rock, Hardin...
Fluorite and Calcite, Stoneco Quarry, Lime City, Ohio
This is an exceptionally bright fluorescent specimen of amber-colored fluorite cubes on a bed of micro calcite crystals, on limestone...
Metauranocircite, Davier Mine, South Dakota
Small yellow/green, plate-like, crystals of metauranocircite on a dark limonitic stained Rhyolite matrix. From the Davier Mine, located...
Fluorescent Calcite from the Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Iowa
This is a larger specimen consisting of what appear to be two generations of calcite crystals on a limestone matrix, from the Linwood...
Calcite Crystal with Organic Inclusions, Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa
These macro photographs show a very interesting multi-wavelength fluorescent response in a single, modified scalenohedral calcite...
Calcite Crystals on Limestone Matrix, Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Scott Co., Iowa
Gemmy, modified scalenohedral, calcite crystals with marcasite inclusions, on limestone matrix, from the Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Scott...
Calcite Crystals with Organic Inclusions, Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa
Calcite, modified scalenohedrons with dark marcasite inclusions. Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa, USA. Under long wave UV...
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