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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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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,...


Calcite and Sulfur from the Maybee Quarry, Maybee, Michigan
A fluorescent beauty from the Midwest. Yes, there are fluorescent minerals in the Midwest! Brightly fluorescent/phosphorescent calcite...


Fluorite, Calcite, Willemite; the Hull Mine, Castle Dome Mountains, Arizona
Arizona is home to some great fluorescent rock collecting (as well as some of the best birding in North America). Great mines are...


Kunzite (Spodumene) Kunar Valley Afghanistan.
Esta es una Spodumena var. Kuncita en matriz procedente del Valle Kunar en Afganistan. Se muestra bajo LW con una intensa respuesta...


Wollastonite with Fluorapatite; Drum Valley, California
Wollastonite is a fairly common and widespread mineral. That said, minerals from each locale seem to have their unique differences and...


Fluorite Cubes, Walworth Quarry, Walworth, New York
The Walworth Quarry has been a productive source of highly desirable fluorite specimens for many years. The Walworth fluorites are...


Terlingua Calcite, a Multi-Wavelength Beauty from the Mercury Mines of Terlingua, Texas
Some calcite specimens collected from the area of Terlingua, Texas show one of the most spectacular and beautiful examples of...


Fluorite from Bluffton, Ohio
The Midwest is host to a variety of locations that have produced unique fluorite specimens that do not show the typical deep blue...


Non-Root Beer Fluorite from Clay Center, Ohio
This is lovely and somewhat unusual fluorite from a classic Midwest location. This specimen originated from the White Rock Quarry in...


A Beautiful Midwestern Fluorescent Classic- Celestine, Strontianite and Calcite from the Stoneco Lim
This is a matrix-free cluster of blocky white celestine crystals, partially altered to strontianite, and honey-colored calcite...


Fluorescent Selenite Blades from the Great Salt Plains, Jet, Oklahoma
The state of Oklahoma is not known to be a prolific source of fluorescent mineral specimens. However, the Great Salt Plains, located in...


Gypsum, var. Selenite, Manitoba, Canada
Selenite from the Red River Spillway (Floodway) in Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada should be on everyone's list to add to their collection....


Calcite, Chihuahua, Mexico
Another specimen from an old collection, this one an interesting calcite from Chihuahua, Mexico . Anyway, though this one looks like it...


Sphalerite, Willemite, and Franklinite, Sterling Hill Mine, NJ
Sphalerite is a stunning material, and apparently quite varied in its manifestations. This Sterling Hill Mine specimen is a rather large...


Spectacular 3-Color Rock from Miller Canyon, Arizona
Miller Canyon is located in the rugged terrain of the Huachuca Mountains, in Cochise County, Arizona. Near the top of Miller Canyon lies...


A 3-Color Fluorescent Beauty from Miller Canyon, Arizona
The Nelly James was a small open pit lead, copper, zinc, gold and silver mine located in Miller Canyon, in the Huachuca Mountains,...


Calcite, Willemite, Franklinite and Zincite: A Sterling Hill, NJ Classic
This is a classic, bright fluorescent specimen from the famous Sterling mine in Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, New Jersey. This piece...


Tugtupite, Chkalovite and Arfvedsonite, Tasseq Slope, Ilímaussaq complex, Greenland
Mottled white to grey colored rock consisting of light colored tugtupite and grey chkalovite, with back needle-like crystals of...


Tugtupite, Sodalite, and Other Favorites from the Tasseq Slope, Greenland
Brick-shaped rock consisting of white to light pink tugtupite, light colored sodalite (var. hackmanite), grey analcime, chkalovite and...


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...
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