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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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Fluorescent Chalcanthite with Antlerite, Brochantite-MDO2 and Shungite(1) - Dongchaun, China/荧光胆矾

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

Agrellite, with albite and uranyl-activated green fluorescence from Kipawa, Quebec, Canada

Nice three colors combo from the famous Kipawa alkaline complex in Western Quebec, Canada. I like how well balanced the colors are on...

Green Fluorescent Fluorite, Fourmile Creek, Colorado

Rare green fluorescent botryoidal fluorite from the Fourmile Creek area, near Canon City, Fremont County, Colorado. Fluorite in...

Greenland Fantasy Rock, a Spectacular, Multi-Colored Fluorescent Treat from the Taseq Slope

This is an excellent example of Greenland Fantasy Rock, showing a beautiful multi-colored, multi-wavelength fluorescent response under...

Daylight Fluorescent Hyalite Opal, Zacatecas, Mexico

Colorless to greenish, transparent, glassy bubbles of hyalite opal (Opal-AN) covering an unknown brown/grey colored matrix, from Electric...

Tiffany Stone, Delta, Utah

Tiffany stone is a complex rock composed of opalized fluorite with bands and veins of chalcedony, manganese oxide and bertrandite. The...

Rare Green Fluorescent Fluorite, Fourmile Creek, Colorado

Fluorite is a mineral that occurs in many different colors and habits, and is often fluorescent under UV. Most commonly, fluorite shows...

Polylithionite from Greenland

Plates of silvery polylithionite mica and pink crystals of eudialyte dominate this specimen from Kangerluarssaq fjord, Ilímaussaq...

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...

Hyalite Opal Geode from Mexico

This is a hollow, rhyolitic, geode nodule half containing a botryoidal, bubbly mass of colorless hyalite opal and small quartz flowers,...

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...

Metauranocircite, Davier Mine, South Dakota

Small yellow/green, plate-like, crystals of metauranocircite on a dark limonitic stained Rhyolite matrix. From the Davier Mine, located...

Natrozippeite from the Little Eva Mine, Grand County, Utah

Natrozippeite, also known as sodium zippeite, is a secondary hydrous sodium uranium sulfate that commonly forms as efflorescent...

Scapolite, Feldspar and Uraninite; Ontario, Canada

Very interesting fluorescent specimen consisting of a cluster of large, blocky, light-colored scapolite crystals (partially altered to...

Liebigite, Schwartzwalder Mine, Jefferson Co., Colorado

Yellowish green scales of liebigite on schist, from the Schwartzwalder Mine, Jefferson Co., Colorado. Liebigite is a secondary uranyl...

Brightly Fluorescent and Radioactive Andersonite from Utah

Brightly fluorescent andersonite with a minor metamunirite druse, from the D Day #2 Mine, Yellow Cat District, Grand County, Utah. ...

Like Hot Rocks? Autunite from the Daybreak Mine, Spokane, WA

This is about as hot as I want to get - check the meter: 3,600CPM. Autunite is equally fluorescent under all wavelengths (shortwave...

Autunite - La Faye Mine, Grury, Issy-l'Evêque, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Autunite from France - a classic locality offering spectacular specimens. The closeup below was posted to the FLM group on FB by...

Autunite - Daybreak Mine, Washington

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Uraninite Uranophane - Ruggles Mine, Grafton, NH

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