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Fluorescent Mineral Photo Gallery

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Greenland offers up some of the most interesting pieces of hackmanite, usually with the brightest fluorescence. This piece checks all the...

Pacoima Canyon in California is well known for its zircons. Less well known, these specimens also contain apatite. I was browsing my...

Some new material started showing up on eBay. Not listed in the fluorescent mineral category and, as with many Chinese specimens, no...

This brilliantly fluorescent specimen from the Erongo Mountains of Namibia features colorless to greenish-yellow, transparent, glassy...

Recently acquired bird's eye sphalerite from Balmat, NY,. They fluoresce purple/blue/green under long-wave UV. This specimen above is a...

During an exploration trip with one of my partners on April 30 2022, in the area of Saint-Michel-De-Wentworth, north-east of...

During an exploration trip with one of my partners on April 30 2022, in the area of Saint-Michel-De-Wentworth, north-east of...

During an exploration trip with one of my partners on April 30 2022, in the area of Saint-Michel-De-Wentworth, north-east of...

This brightly fluorescent tugtupite specimen was collected in 2005 by Mark Cole from the Western Taseq Slope of the Ilmaussaq complex,...

An unusual find in Dec 2021, hard to say to be beautiful but strange enough indeed. As chalcanthite is a simple copper sulfate mineral,...

This corundum specimen from Mysore, Karnataka, India is especially rich in brightly fluorescent ruby crystals. The luscious, velvety red...

This exceptional fluorescent specimen consists of numerous blocky diopside crystals encrusted upon and embedded within a calcite-marble...

Yttrofluorite is a variety of fluorite in which the rare earth element yttrium substitutes for some of the calcium in the fluorite (CaF2)...

During 2004-2005, a limited find of morphologically complex, multiply twinned, light yellow, gemmy calcite was made in the cavities of a...

Shown here is a pretty nice specimen of corundum var. ruby from the Mundarara Mine, Longido District, Arusha Region, Tanzania. Its...

Pristine, complete all around, world-class specimen of golden gypsum var. selenite from the Red River Floodway, Winnipeg, Manitoba,...

Yttrofluorite is a variety of fluorite in which the rare earth element yttrium substitutes for some of the calcium in the fluorite...

Nice specimen of gypsum var. selenite from the Red River Floodway, Winnipeg, Manitoba. In the first picture, the specimen is shown...

Nice cabinet specimen, recently obtained in a trade, consisting of scheelite (bright blueish-white under shortwave UV, and yellow under...

Very nice cabinet-sized specimen consisting of tenebrescent sodalite (orange fluorescence under all UV wavelengths, brighter LW), with...