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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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Red Fluorescent Barite, Custer County, Colorado
These barite specimens, collected from an abandoned barite mine in Custer County, Colorado, show an unusual multi-wavelength red to...
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Zunyite, Big Bertha Mine, La Paz County, Arizona
Named after its type locality, the Zuni mine in San Juan County, Colorado, zunyite is an uncommon aluminum sorosilicate mineral that...
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Golden Yellow Fluorescent Zircons from Saint Peters Dome, El Paso County, Colorado
This is a lovely fluorescent specimen featuring numerous zircon crystals and minor fluorite in a non-fluorescent quartz matrix. ...
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Calcite - Purple Passion Mine, Arizona
A piece of calcite from Purple Passion displaying SW violet and orange fluorescence. Lit by a 15w Glw Stck. Specimen is 78 x 42 x 38mm.
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Wickenburgite, Fluorite, Willemite, etc - Potter-Cramer Mine, Arizona
A rich SW assemblage from Potter-Cramer. Wickenburgite fluoresces shades of pink and red, fluorite in violet blue, willemite in pale...
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Sphalerite - Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona
Gray masses of sphalerite crystals with a bright orange-yellow LW response. Lit by a pair of 365nm flashlights. Specimen is 82 x 58 x 54mm
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Sphalerite and Fluorite, Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado
To mineral collectors, the Sweet Home Mine in Alma, Colorado is best known as a producer of some of the finest rhodochrosite specimens in...
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Terlingua Calcite, a Beautiful Rock of Many Faces
Terlingua calcite is a rock of many faces, as few other fluorescent minerals show such a varied fluorescent response under different UV...
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Zunyite, an Uncommon Fluorescent Beauty
Zunyite is an uncommon aluminum sorosilicate mineral that shows a soft, cherry red fluorescent response under short wave UV. Zunyite...
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Fluorite and Willemite from the Red Cloud Mine, La Paz County, Arizona
Located in the Trigo Mountains of La Paz County, Arizona, the Red Cloud mine is a location famous for producing some of the best...
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Two-Color Calcite and Willemite from a New Find- The Night Hawk Mine in New Mexico
This exceptional two-color fluorescent specimen was collected by notable New Mexico collectors Ken and Gail Hennig from a new find in...
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Calcite, Fluorite, Willemite, Smithsonite, Aragonite from Arizona
This specimen was mined during a trip with Bill Gardner in the 2005 and comes from Hogan Claim site. Nothing to say about the calcite...
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Horn Silver Sphalerite, it has it all!
Horn Silver Sphalerite is one of our favorite materials. Fluorescent in all wavelengths with an amazing array of colors, phosphorescent,...
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Terlingua Calcite, a Multi-Wavelength Beauty from the Mercury Mines of Terlingua, Texas
Some calcite specimens collected from the area of Terlingua, Texas show one of the most spectacular and beautiful examples of...
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Fluorescent Selenite Blades from the Great Salt Plains, Jet, Oklahoma
The state of Oklahoma is not known to be a prolific source of fluorescent mineral specimens. However, the Great Salt Plains, located in...
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Spectacular 3-Color Rock from Miller Canyon, Arizona
Miller Canyon is located in the rugged terrain of the Huachuca Mountains, in Cochise County, Arizona. Near the top of Miller Canyon lies...
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A 3-Color Fluorescent Beauty from Miller Canyon, Arizona
The Nelly James was a small open pit lead, copper, zinc, gold and silver mine located in Miller Canyon, in the Huachuca Mountains,...
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Sphalerite from the Horn Silver Mine, Frisco, Utah
The Horn Silver mine is located in the town of Frisco, Beaver County, Utah, and during its heyday in the late 1870s, was one of the...
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Fibrous Radiating Wollastonite, Maricopa Co., Arizona
This is a small, but interesting specimen of fluorescent wollastonite from an uncommon location. Collected from an unknown mine in...
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Tiffany Stone, Delta, Utah
Tiffany stone is a complex rock composed of opalized fluorite with bands and veins of chalcedony, manganese oxide and bertrandite. The...
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