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Fluorescent Mineral Photo Gallery

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Collectors of fluorescent minerals are familiar with the beautiful multi-wavelength fluorescent response of Terlingua calcite. By...

This is an interesting specimen of adamite from the Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico. As is the case with many fluorescent minerals,...

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

Who would have thought a fluorescent rock that floats?!? Here's aragonite and calcite on pumice from Taupo, New Zealand. The area around...

Radial brownish Willemite concretions with a 2nd generation growth of white cristals. These fluoresce very bright and willemite has...

So many times when we see on blindingly bright calcite from Franklin, we yawn. However, sometimes there's a surprise. As usual, this...

Specimen consisting of white, radiating sprays of acicular crystals of austinite, and small, greenish yellow prismatic crystals of...

This triangular-shaped piece of waste rock was surface collected from a tailings pile at the Maxfield mine, in Big Cottonwood Canyon,...

Green Willemite and white-tan Smithsonite -as described in Robbins (1994). Willemite covers about half of the surface of the specimen...

Witherite is a relatively rare barium carbonate mineral that shows a blue/white fluorescent response under short and long wave UV. The...

This is a bright white, branching coral-like formation of pristine aragonite that shows a beautiful multi-wave fluorescent response under...

Light grey, translucent crystals of willemite on and in a light grey matrix, from Balmat, St. Lawrence Co., New York. The willemite...

Several well-formed, terminated, amber barite crystals on a dark chocolate brown matrix, from the Elk Creek area of Meade County, South...

Sprays of golden amber barite crystals cover a dark chocolate brown matrix in this specimen from the Elk Creek area of Meade County,...

Here's an amazing Creedite from the Qinglong Mine, in the Guizhou Province. Not only does the speciment have beautiful crystals in...

This is a beautiful fluorescent specimen from the Lower Slope, Third Plain Zinc Deposit, Angorichina Station, Bunkers Range, Northern...

Small (approximately 1mm) hexagonal white crystals of willemite on a dark unidentified matrix, from the lead/zinc/silver mine of...

This specimen of barite from the Linwood mine, Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa, is most interesting from a scientific perspective. It is one...

Radiating sprays of transparent, gemmy prismatic creedite crystals on a bed of white quartz druse. This specimen is from the Qinglong...

Cluster of white, bladed, barite crystals without matrix, with needle-like, off-white calcite crystals occurring between the central...