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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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Barite Crystals, Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Iowa
This is a large cluster of intergrown, prismatic, light golden/smoky colored barite crystals, on a minimal limestone matrix. It was...
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Terlingua Calcite- Terlingua, Texas
Terlingua calcite is one of the most spectacular and beautiful fluorescent minerals due to its bright, multi-colored, multi-wave,...
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Sulfur from Michigan, Maybee it’s fluorescent, Maybee not…
It has been reported that crystals of sulfur from Maybee, Michigan, occasionally show weak yellow fluorescence under UV (Robbins,...
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Strontianite, Winfield, Pennsylvania
Radiating clusters of acicular crystals of off-white colored strontianite from the Winfield Quarry, Winfield, Union Co., Pennsylvania. ...
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Fluorescent/Phosphorescent Celestine and Strontianite, Lime City, Ohio
Blocky, white, celestine crystals, partially altered to strontianite, sit on a light-colored limestone matrix, from the Stoneco Quarry,...
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Aragonite in clay
A spray of aragonite embedded in clay. From Pantoja, Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. The spray is about 2 cm wide. Source: Fluorescent...
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Multi-Colored Wickenburgite, Willemite and Fluorite, from the Potter-Cramer Mine, Maricopa Co., Ariz
From the desert of southern Arizona, this is a very ordinary and nondescript looking rock in daylight, as is the case with many...
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Fluorescent/Phosphorescent Calcite from a Little Known Midwestern Location- Bedford, Indiana
This milky white calcite cleavage fragment was collected in 2016 from a roadcut along Indiana State Route 37 in Bedford, Indiana, very...
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Green Phosphorescent Fluorite from a Limited Occurrence in Bedford, Indiana
Cubic yellow fluorite crystals on limestone matrix, collected in 2016 from a roadcut in Bedford, Indiana. This fluorite shows a very...
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Blue Phosphorescent Fluorite from a Limited Occurrence in Bedford, Indiana
Cubic yellow fluorite crystals on limestone matrix, collected in 2016 from a roadcut in Bedford, Indiana. This fluorite shows a very...
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Brilliant Green Fluorescent Willemite from the Sterling Mine
A red/brown, somewhat rhombohedral, piece of nearly pure willemite, with minor calcite. This red variety of willemite contains manganese...
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Fluorescent and Phosphorescent Calcite, Annabel Lee Mine, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
This is a subtle, but beautiful fluorescent specimen from a classic Cave-In-Rock, IL, location- the Annabel Lee Mine. Comprised of a...
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Rampgill Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, North and Western Region (Cumberland)
And if that’s not enough, minerals include: Calcite (red), Barytocalcite (pink), Witherite (cream), Baryte (yellowish white), Fluorite...
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Fluorescent Clam Fossil from Ruck's Pit, Fort Drum, Florida
This is a fluorescent, Pleistocene age (approx. 1-2 mya) Mercenaria permagna clam fossil from the famous Rucks' Pit site in Fort Drum,...
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Terlingua-Type Calcite from an Uncommon Midwestern Location- Indianapolis, Indiana
This is an unusual specimen of pink to white colored cleavage rhombs of calcite on limestone matrix, that show a Terlingua-type...
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Popcorn Barite, Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Iowa
A plate of off-white barite crystals on a limestone matrix, from the Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Scott Co., Iowa. This particular material is...
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Sphalerite & Willemite - Sterling Hill Mine, Ogdensburg, NJ
Sphalerite & Willemite from the Sterling Hill Mine in Ogdensburg, NJ. Long wave, short wave & white light
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Sphalerite, var. Cleiophane & Willemite - Sterling Hill Mine, Ogdensburg, NJ
Sphalerite, var. Cleiophane & Willemite from the Sterling Hill Mine in Ogdensburg, NJ. Shown under long wave, short wave & white light. ...
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Selenite Twinned Crystals, Willow Creek location, near Nanton, Alberta, Canada
Twinned selenite (gypsum) crystals from the Willow Creek location, near Nanton, Alberta, Canada. These crystals show a very unique...
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