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Fluorescent Mineral Photo Gallery

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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.

Smithsonite (?) on Diopside (?) from the Red Raven Mine Adelanto, CA

Diopside (fl blue & yellow), smithsonite (fl red) under 253.7nm SW from the Red Raven Mine in Adelanto, CA. All mineral identifications...

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...

Dumortierite, Alpine, California

Purple dumortierite in a light colored quartz groundmass, from the Dehesa Dumortierite deposit, Alpine, Laguna Mts, San Diego Co.,...

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...

Calcite and unknowns, Black Wonder District, CA

This one's a bit unusual for much of the material collected from along the roads in the Black Wonder District in the Diablo Range in...

Bright Fluorescent Wollastonite, Desert View Mine, California

This specimen contains bright fluorescent wollastonite and minor calcite and aragonite, from the Desert View Mine, San Bernardino Mts,...

Wollastonite, Calcite and Aragonite, Desert View Mine

This is an interesting 3-color fluorescent specimen from the Desert View Mine, San Bernardino Mts, San Bernardino Co., California. At...

Hanksite, Searles Lake, Trona, California

This is a pair of intergrown, barrel-shaped hanksite crystals, from Searles Lake, Trona, San Bernardino Co., California. The hanksite...

Scapolite, Valyermo, California

California has a wide variety of minerals from a wide variety of locales. Here is a scapolite from Valyermo, in the High Desert area of...

Benitoite crystals from the Dallas Gem mine, California USA

Source: Axel Emmermann, MKA http://fluo.mineralogie.be/index.html

Carpathite, A Rare Fluorescent Organic Mineral

Carpathite (formerly called karpatite) is a very interesting fluorescent mineral. The vast majority of minerals (fluorescent and...

Walstromite with Unknown Blue, Big Creek – Rush Creek Deposit, Fresno County, California, USA.

Walstromite is pretty much limited to a few locations in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. Here’s a very...

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...

Fluorescent And Phosphorescent Thernardite from Soda Lake, California

Thernardite is an anhydrous sodium sulfate mineral which occurs in arid evaporative environments such as Soda Lake. It fluoresces in a...

Opal, The Andalusia Mine, California

My then eight year old daughter and I explored the old Andalusia Mine tailings for fluorescents. Never before had we found so many...

Calcite, Hydrozincite and Powellite from Shadow Hills, Mojave Desert, CA

Here's a nice little specimen that was from a selection of handouts for kids at a local show. Calcite (red), Hydrozincite (blue),...