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Hyalite-Coated Chalcedony and Fluorite, SK Star Claim #2, Juab Co., Utah

This interesting and unique fluorescent specimen looks like something you'd expect to find in an underwater coral reef. Collected from...

Sphalerite, Ophir Hill Mine, Tooele County, Utah

Sawn slab of zinc ore consisting of sphalerite, galena, and other unidentified minerals, from the Ophir Hill Mine, Tooele County, Utah. ...

Tiffany Stone, Brush Wellman Mine, Delta, Utah

Tiffany stone is a complex rock composed of opalized fluorite with bands and veins of chalcedony, manganese oxide and bertrandite. The...

Scheelite, Ophir Hill Mine, Tooele County, Utah

Brightly fluorescent, submillimeter, octahedral crystals of scheelite on matrix; from the Ophir Hill Mine, Tooele, Utah. This specimen...

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,...

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...

Septarian Nodule, Orderville, Utah

This is a polished slice of a septarian nodule from the famous Muddy Creek location in Orderville, Kane Co., Utah. The interior of these...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Calcite Cleavage Rhomb, Utah

Colorless, translucent, calcite cleavage rhomb from an unknown location in Utah. Looking somewhat average under visible light, it shows...

Andersonite - Little Eva Mine, Grand City, Utah

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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...

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...

Fluorescent, Phosphorescent, Triboluminescent Sphalerite, Frisco, Utah

This is an outstanding specimen of sphalerite that displays several very interesting luminescent phenomena. It was collected from an...

Fluorescent Calcite Vein in Wheeler Shale, Delta, UT

This is a simple, but interesting fluorescent specimen that dates back to the age of the trilobites. A vein of light-colored calcite...

Wollastonite, Calcite, and Hydrozincite, Big Yellow Mine, Utah

This is a small, but spectacular fluorescent specimen, collected in 2016 from the Big Yellow Mine, located on the back side of Indian...

Gypsum var. Selenite -Cathedral Valley Utah

I call this Bird of Paradise. A fabulous Gypsum specimen photographed in LW. LW is the brightest. MW is dimmer, and SW is even dimmer -...

Dugway Geode, Dugway Geode Beds, Juab County, Utah

Many of the geodes collected from the famous Dugway Geode Beds in the Utah West Desert show impressive green fluorescence under UV. This...