Barite and Calcite from the Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
This very delicate and aesthetic specimen is from the historic Minerva No. 1 Mine in the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District of Southern...
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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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Rare Fluorite from the Crystal Mine, Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois
The Crystal Mine, one of many fluorspar mines in the historic Cave-In-Rock mining district of Southern Illinois, is not a well-known...
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Fluorite Cleavage Octahedron from the Hill-Ledford Mine, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
This is a large, transparent, purple fluorite cleavage octahedron from the Hill-Ledford mine, in Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois. ...
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Fluorite with Hydrocarbon Inclusions, Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
It is not uncommon for fluorite specimens mined from the historic Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District to contain bitumen, oil or other...
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Barite, Celestine and Aragonite, Annabel Lee Mine, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
Nodules of barite and aragonite are perched on an underlying base of celestine and fluorite on this beautiful specimen from the Annabel...
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Blue Fluorescent Fluorite Cubes, Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
The Cave-In-Rock area of Hardin County in southern Illinois is known for producing some of the most spectacular display quality fluorite...
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Multi-Wavelength Calcite and Fluorite from the Denton Mine, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
This spectacular fluorescent specimen features multiple golden, twinned, calcite crystals on a matrix of dark purple,...
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Fluorite, Calcite and Hydrozincite; Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
This beautiful multi-colored fluorescent specimen was surface collected from the tailings that remain at the site of the former Minerva...
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Strontianite from the Historic Cave-In-Rock Mining District
Strontianite is an uncommon strontium carbonate mineral that was sometimes encountered during fluorspar (fluorite) mining activities in...
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Unique Multi-Wave Calcite from Cave-In-Rock, IL
This calcite was mined by the Griffith family in 2017 from their private commercial specimen mining operation located in Hastie's quarry...
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Witherite, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
Witherite is a relatively rare barium carbonate mineral that shows a blue/white fluorescent response under short and long wave UV. The...
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Quartz, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
The Cave-In-Rock area of Hardin County, Illinois, is best known to collectors for its historical production of world-class specimens of...
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Barite, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
Cluster of white, bladed, barite crystals without matrix, with needle-like, off-white calcite crystals occurring between the central...
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Fluorite from the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
Cluster of large, light purple, stepped, fluorite cubes, from the historic Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District, Cave-In-Rock, Hardin...
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Calcite, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
Wheat sheaf bundles of parallel growth calcite crystals on a yellow/brown fluorite matrix, from Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois. ...
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Wispy Hydrocarbon Inclusions in Fluorite from Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
This pair of yellow fluorite cubes from Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois, show a very interesting multi-wave fluorescent response due t
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Fluorescent and Phosphorescent Calcite, Annabel Lee Mine, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
This is a subtle, but beautiful fluorescent specimen from a classic Cave-In-Rock, IL, location- the Annabel Lee Mine. Comprised of a...
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Fluorite with Hydrocarbon Inclusions, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
Cluster of purple cubic fluorite crystals, from Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois. These fluorite cubes show a blue fluorescent...
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Calcite, Fluorite and Sphalerite- Rosiclare, Illinois
This is a mixed specimen containing calcite, fluorite, sphalerite and likely other minerals. It was self-collected in 2015 at the...
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2017 FMS Midwest Chapter Annual Meeting
by Chris Clemens chris@uvminerals.org The Midwest Chapter of the Fluorescent Mineral Society (FMS) held its first annual meeting at the...
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