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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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Blue spinel from Vietnam
Small but really nice specimen, consisting of blue spinel (bright red fluorescence under longwave UV), along with some unknowns,...
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Hackmanite, scapolite, johachidolite, etc., from Myanmar
Small but lovely specimen, consisting of hackmanite, scapolite, johachidolite and feldspar. The hackmanite is so tenebrescent, even under...
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Hackmanite, scapolite and feldspar, from Myanmar
Small but really nice specimen, consisting of sodalite var. hackmanite, along with scapolite and feldspar. The hackmanite shows deep...
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Hackmanite, scapolite, johachidolite, feldspar, etc, from Myanmar
Shown here is a very nice specimen of super deeply tenebrescent sodalite var. hackmanite, from the Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District,...
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Baryte and calcite crystals from Puttapa, Australia
While not as colorful as the typical material from the Beltana Mine in Puttapa, South Australia, this specimen is definitely out of the...
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Willemite, calcite, etc; Puttapa, Australia
Small but brighter than average specimen of the typical calcite-willemite assemblage from the Beltana Mine, Puttapa, Leigh Creek, North...
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Willemite, calcite, etc; Puttapa, Australia
Small but brighter than average specimen of the typical calcite-willemite assemblage from the Beltana Mine, Puttapa, Leigh Creek, North...
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Willemite, calcite, etc; Puttapa, Australia
Very nice, large specimen from the Beltana Mine, Puttapa, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. One of my...
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Willemite, calcite, etc; Puttapa, Australia
Very nice, large specimen from the Beltana Mine, Puttapa, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. One of my...
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Willemite, calcite, etc; Puttapa, Australia
Shown here is a modest sized but fantastic calcite and willemite specimen from the Beltana Mine, Puttapa, Leigh Creek, North Flinders...
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Willemite, calcite, etc; Puttapa, Australia
Very nice, large specimen from the Beltana Mine, Puttapa, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. One of my...
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Willemite, calcite, etc; Puttapa, Australia
Very nice, large specimen from the Beltana Mine, Puttapa, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. One of my...
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Hokkaidoite in opal from Shikaribetsu Lake, Japan
Very nice, recently acquired specimen consisting of very brightly fluorescing hokkaidoite, in opal, from the Shikaribetsu Lake, Shikaoi,...
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Hokkaidoite in opal from Shikaribetsu Lake, Japan
Very nice, recently acquired specimen consisting of very brightly fluorescing hokkaidoite, in opal, from the Shikaribetsu Lake, Shikaoi,...
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Hokkaidoite in opal from Shikaribetsu Lake, Japan
Very nice, recently acquired specimen consisting of very brightly fluorescing hokkaidoite, in opal, from the Shikaribetsu Lake, Shikaoi,...
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Sodalite Explained
(Posted by Mark Cole from the FMS FB group) Sodalite is a mineral and a mineral group. The sodalite group contains the minerals...
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Aragonite (Var: Lead-bearing Aragonite) (Ca,Pb)CO3
Tarnowitzite, a lead bearing variety of aragonite. Some say that tarnowitzite is a mix of aragonite and cerussite. It fluoresces white under
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Hyalite-Coated Chalcedony and Fluorite, SK Star Claim #2, Juab Co., Utah
This interesting and unique fluorescent specimen looks like something you'd expect to find in an underwater coral reef. Collected from...
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Watermelon Calcite, Buffalo Gap Grasslands, South Dakota
This material is known as "watermelon calcite" or "watermelon rock" due to its colorful red and green fluorescent response under UV. This...
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Red Trinitite, a Piece of Atomic History
Red trinitite is technically not a true mineral, because it was not formed through a geologic process. Rather, this brick-red colored...
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