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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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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Fluorite and Calcite, Pure Potential Mine, Arizona
Calcite and Fluorite combinations rarely get boring. This one has a very unique fluorite pattern within the primarily calcite matrix....
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Rare Green Fluorescent Fluorite, Fourmile Creek, Colorado
Fluorite is a mineral that occurs in many different colors and habits, and is often fluorescent under UV. Most commonly, fluorite shows...
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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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Adamite and Austinite, Gold Hill mine, Tooele Co., Utah
Specimen consisting of white, radiating sprays of acicular crystals of austinite, and small, greenish yellow prismatic crystals of...
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Sphalerite and Hydrozincite, Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
This triangular-shaped piece of waste rock was surface collected from a tailings pile at the Maxfield mine, in Big Cottonwood Canyon,...
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Hyalite Opal from the Thomas Range, Utah
The Thomas Range, located near the town of Delta in the West Desert area of Utah, is a small mountain range that formed approximately 7...
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Willemite, Calcite and Fluorite from the Southwest: Hogan Claim, Arizona
Under normal daylight, this is a rather nondescript looking rock, but when viewed under UV it explodes with color in a spectacular...
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Wollastonite, Calcite and Possible Hardystonite, Desert View Mine
This colorful fluorescent specimen is from the Desert View Mine, Holcomb Valley, San Bernardino Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, and...
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Calcite Cleavage Rhomb, Utah
Colorless, translucent, calcite cleavage rhomb from an unknown location in Utah. Looking somewhat average under visible light, it shows...
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Fluorescent Calcite, Fluorite, Willemite, from the Purple Passion Mine, Arizona
This is a striking specimen from the Purple Passion Mine, Wickenburg area, Yavapai Co., Arizona, consisting of coarsely crystalline rock...
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Calcite, Hyalite Opal, and unknowns; Coyote Hole, NV
Coyote Hole is relatively unknown to the fluorescent rock world, but clearly has some interesting material. Here is a piece that appears...
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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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Natrozippeite from the Little Eva Mine, Grand County, Utah
Natrozippeite, also known as sodium zippeite, is a secondary hydrous sodium uranium sulfate that commonly forms as efflorescent...
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Calcite and Aragonite, Helvetia Mine, Arizona
Patterns of bright red fluorescing calcite with pockets of aragonite make these pieces interesting and eye-catching. Also, there appears...
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Opalized Volcanic Tuff, Burro Creek, Arizona
Light-colored, dendritic, brecciated opalized volcanic tuff (opalite) having a sponge like texture. Contains weblike veins of hyalite...
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Fluorescent Tremolite from the Land of the Greatest Snow on Earth
This is a very nice fluorescent specimen from a location that is near and dear to my heart. This piece contains small, bladed crystals...
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