Sodalite Explained
(Posted by Mark Cole from the FMS FB group) Sodalite is a mineral and a mineral group. The sodalite group contains the minerals...
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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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Foyaite Igneous Rock from Monchique complex, Monchique, Faro, Portugal.
A nepheline syenite with predominant orthoclase and a trachytic texture. These are rich in fluorescent Sodalite
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Sodalite (Hackmanite) with Chkalovite, Phosphorescent Greenland
Greenland offers up some of the most interesting pieces of hackmanite, usually with the brightest fluorescence. This piece checks all the...
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Tenebrescent sodalite, with chkalovite, tugtupite and uranyl, from Greenland
Very nice cabinet-sized specimen consisting of tenebrescent sodalite (orange fluorescence under all UV wavelengths, brighter LW), with...
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Tenebrescent yellow sodalite from Greenland
Shown here is a very modest sized but lovely specimen of tenebrescent yellow sodalite, from Taseq Slope East, Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq,...
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Gemmy dark green sodalite from Greenland
Gemmy green sodalite from Kangerlussaq, Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland. In the first image, the specimen is shown...
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Green Sodalite, Kangerlussaq, Greenland
Green Sodalite (Hackmanite) (SW/LW: orange) on Lujavrite, Feldspar (SW: magenta), Uranyl-activated coating (SW: green) Locale:...
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Fantasy Rock from Taseq Slope, Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland
This specimen is one of my favorite in my small Greenland fluorescent minerals collection. It consists of the typical mineral assemblage...
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Chkalovite, tugtupite, analcime, sodalite, etc, from Taseq West, Greenland
Shown here is a pretty neat specimen, consisting mostly of sodalite (highly tenebrescent), along with chkalovite, and minor amounts of...
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"Fantasy rock" from Taseq West, Ilímaussaq complex, Kujalleq, Greenland
Here is a really nice "Fantasy rock" that I recently acquired. It contains only modest amounts of tugtupite, occurring as replacement...
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Hackmanite from Narsaq, Illmaussaq complex, Greenland
Shown in this post is a modest-sized, but pretty nice specimen of hackmanite from Narsaq, Illmaussaq complex, Greenland. It is associated...
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Forsterite from Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
I replied to a question [in the FB FLM group] asked by Robert Jones about a red phosphorescent mineral in a specimen containing Lazurite...
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sodalite specimen from Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
I like to collect fluorescent rocks that also tell a story about their formation. This is a sodalite specimen from Sar-e-Sang,...
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Tenebrescent blue sodalite, zircon, feldspar, etc, from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
This is one of many specimens I recovered from a boulder in the quarry in Mont Saint-Hilaire in 2018. While it's far from being the best...
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Tenebrescent blue sodalite from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Like most fluorescent minerals collectors already know, sadly, blue sodalite is rarely fluorescent. To my knowledge, fluorescent blue...
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Afghanistan Minerals - New Identifications
There have been several posts in our Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/fluorescentminerals) recently identifying some of...
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Sodalite - Ilímaussaq Complex, Greenland
Colorless Greenland sodalite with bright orange LW fluorescence, red-orange SW fluorescence, and tenebrescent change to purple for...
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Greenland Fantasy Rock, a Spectacular, Multi-Colored Fluorescent Treat from the Taseq Slope
This is an excellent example of Greenland Fantasy Rock, showing a beautiful multi-colored, multi-wavelength fluorescent response under...
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Tugtupite, Sodalite, and Other Favorites from the Tasseq Slope, Greenland
Brick-shaped rock consisting of white to light pink tugtupite, light colored sodalite (var. hackmanite), grey analcime, chkalovite and...
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Vesuvian Mix from Pompeii disaster
This mineral comes from Somma-Vesuvius Complex (Naples, Italy). It was found around 1960s in the pumice layers of the 79 DC Vesuvius ...
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