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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Calcite on Fluorite from Moscona Mine, Spain.
Lepidolite Microcline from Padrón river, Estepona, Malaga, Spain.
Alexandrite in Beryl var. Emerald from A Franqueira, A Cañiza, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain.
Scheelite, La Parrilla mine (Adelaida open pit mine), Almoharín, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain.
Fluorite and its different responses under UV light.
Chalcedoy & Unknown from Batallones Hill, Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain
Fluorite & calcite from the Berta quarry, Sant Cugat del Vallès-El Papiol, Barcelona, Spain
Hydrozincite, Smithsonite from Hermosa mine, Spain.
"Rainbow" assortment of longwave UV reactive minerals
Calcite Fluorite from Berta quarry, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Fluorapatite var."Spargelstein" from Jumilla, Spain.
A quatuor of fluorescent fluorites
Fluorite, Baryte from Berbes Spain with red fluo LW 365nm
Spinel, Clinohumite in Marble from Sierra de Mijas, Malaga, Spain.
Apatite Calcite crystals with Chalcedony coating from Jumilla, Spain
Opal, Sepiolite. Cerro de los Batallones, Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain.
Constante Mine, Santa Marta, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain.
Variety Alexandrite on Chrysoberyl
Pyromorphite Resuperferolitica Mine, Spain.
Scalenoedric Calcite "dog's tooth" from La Cruz mine, Spain.