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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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Meta-Autunite Torbernite 'Green Garden' from Portugal
Here a beautiful mix of Autunite and Torbernite from Assunçao (Portugal). On a gray rock matrix are several crystals of Meta-Autunite...
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Zinc Minerals Willemite and Smithsonite from Tsumeb, Namibia.
Green Willemite and white-tan Smithsonite -as described in Robbins (1994). Willemite covers about half of the surface of the specimen...
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Golden Barite from Elk Creek, South Dakota
Several well-formed, terminated, amber barite crystals on a dark chocolate brown matrix, from the Elk Creek area of Meade County, South...
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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...
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Quartz Crystal with Petroleum Inclusions, from Pakistan
This single, double terminated Herkimer diamond-like, quartz crystals is from Pakistan. It is a beautiful little specimen when viewed...
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Willemite Crystals, Peyrebrune, Tarn, France
Small (approximately 1mm) hexagonal white crystals of willemite on a dark unidentified matrix, from the lead/zinc/silver mine of...
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Interesting Zonal Fluorescence in a Barite Crystal from the Linwood mine, Buffalo, Iowa
This specimen of barite from the Linwood mine, Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa, is most interesting from a scientific perspective. It is one...
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Creedite, Qinglong Mine, Guizhou Province, China
Radiating sprays of transparent, gemmy prismatic creedite crystals on a bed of white quartz druse. This specimen is from the Qinglong...
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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...
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Buttery Yellow Calcite, Elk Creek, South Dakota
Best known for its golden-amber colored barite crystals, the Elk Creek area of Meade County, South Dakota, also produces buttery yellow...
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Calcite and Celestine, Stoneco Quarry, Lime City, Ohio
This beautiful fluorescent specimen from the Midwest features a prominent doubly-terminated calcite crystal on a limestone matrix,...
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Escherlike crystals of Adamite
This is a nice little gemmy Adamite from the Ojuela Mine, Mapami, Durango, Mexico. It is pretty small (4.2 cm x 3.1 cm x 1.6 cm, 28.3...
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Cerussite and Barite, Mibladen, Morocco
Yellowish-colored, well-formed, gemmy crystals of cerussite on a bed of galena, with minor orange barite crystals, from Mibladen, Morocco....
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Fluorescent Calcite from the Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Iowa
This is a larger specimen consisting of what appear to be two generations of calcite crystals on a limestone matrix, from the Linwood...
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Calcite Crystal with Organic Inclusions, Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa
These macro photographs show a very interesting multi-wavelength fluorescent response in a single, modified scalenohedral calcite...
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Calcite Crystals with Organic Inclusions, Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa
Calcite, modified scalenohedrons with dark marcasite inclusions. Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa, USA. Under long wave UV...
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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...
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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...
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Fluorescent/Phosphorescent Fluorite on Calcite, Pint's Quarry, Raymond, Iowa
Amber-colored, cubic fluorite crystals on a bed of scalenohedral calcite, on limestone matrix, from Pint's Quarry, Raymond, Black Hawk...
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Swedenborgite in calcite
You can hardly distinguish between calcite and swedenborgite in white light. In SW-UV they couldn't be more different. Micheal Gaft, H....
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