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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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Scheelite, La Parrilla mine (Adelaida open pit mine), AlmoharÃn, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain.
La Parrilla mine (Adelaida open pit mine), AlmoharÃn, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. The largest tungsten mine in Spain and considered the...
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Scheelite and caliche from Darwin, California
Nice cabinet specimen, recently obtained in a trade, consisting of scheelite (bright blueish-white under shortwave UV, and yellow under...
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Scheelite, with calcite and fluorite, from Hunan, China
Nice little specimen from the Chashan Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China. Interestingly, the...
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Scheelite, Ophir Hill Mine, Tooele County, Utah
Brightly fluorescent, submillimeter, octahedral crystals of scheelite on matrix; from the Ophir Hill Mine, Tooele, Utah. This specimen...
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Scheelite and Muscovite, Mt Xuebaoding, Sichuan, China
Large, brightly fluorescent, pseudo-octahedral scheelite crystal on a matrix of non-fluorescent muscovite plates. From Mt Xuebaoding,...
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Scheelite - Mittersill Scheelite Deposit, Salzburg, Austria
Grains and veins of scheelite in quartz matrix, fluorescing bright cornflower blue in SW. Lit by a 240w SW transilluminator. Specimen is...
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Scheelite from China - Multi-Color Response under Shortwave, Midwave, and Longwave UV.
There was a recent post in the FMS Fluorescent Mineral Group on Facebook discussing the fluorescence of scheelite under LW UV (UVA). I...
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Scheelite, Hyalite from the Princess Pat Mine, Adelanto, CA
Scheelite (fl white) & hyalite (fl green) from P Pat. Super bright because it's a completely fresh face.
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Scheelite Octahedrons on Matrix, Ortiz mine, Golden, New Mexico
Honey colored, octahedral scheelite crystals on a light matrix, from the Oriiz mine, Golden, Santa Fe County, New Mexico. Under short...
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Scheelite, Powellite, and other misc. non-fluorescent minerals from the Pine Creek Mine, Scheelite,
Under normal daylight, this is an unimpressive looking mottled rock containing grey, black, white, and reddish/brown minerals, from the...
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Calcite and Scheelite; Temp Piute Mine, Nevada
The desert Southwest has so much to offer in landscape, wildlife, geology and fluorescent rocks. Here's a nice scheelite and calcite from...
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Scheelite and a violet laser
This scheelite from Pingwu, Sichuan, China, contains some Rare Earth Elements. As a result it fluoresces red when hit with a 405 nm...
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Fluorescent Calcite and Scheelite from the Ophir Hill Mine, Tooele County, Utah
Tabular calcite crystals and small scheelite octahedrons on limestone matrix, from the Ophir Hill Mine, Ophir, Tooele County, Utah. At...
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Scheelite, Rainbow Mine, California, USA
Bright white scheelite from the Rainbow Mine in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California. Shown in shortwave and natural light. The...
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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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Scheelite Crystal on Calcite - Mongolia
This is one of the most striking specimens from the mines in Mongolia of this material. The calcite offers a dramatic backdrop for the...
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Blindingly bright Scheelite from Hunan, China
Here's a very, very bright fluorescent scheelite from Hunan, China. Weighs just over a kilogram, and is quite dense.
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Color change Scheelite from Dongshan, China
Scheelite typically fluoresces a bright, whitish blue. Those from the Dongshan Mine, Hunan, China fluoresce pink under mid-wave light as...
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