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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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Scapolite from Russian Karelia
The scapolite shows a nice red fluorescence caused by Fe3+ (see the emission around 715 nm). The picture taken at 255 nm is more...
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What is the Best UV Flashlight for Minerals? (No bias, no clickbait - just the facts)
Longwave, shortwave, midwave flashlights are all the rage lately. 365nm, 255nm, 310nm - some amazing fluorescent minerals are being...
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Fluorite and its different responses under UV light.
The classic fluorescent mineral, but all fluorites are not luminescent under UV ! Showing here some fluorites with different responses...
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Fluorescent Drill Core Sample from Nashville, Tennessee
This curious oddity is a fluorescent drill core specimen that was sampled from an Ordovician limestone bed on the West side of Nashville,...
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Sodalite (Hackmanite) with Chkalovite, Phosphorescent Greenland
Greenland offers up some of the most interesting pieces of hackmanite, usually with the brightest fluorescence. This piece checks all the...
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Fluorescent Mineral Photography Studio
While visiting my granddaughter in Florida I had time to revamp my daughter's UV light box. The old one was too small for the large...
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Chalcedoy & Unknown from Batallones Hill, Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain
This is a really amazing specimen and it is not only because of its color contrast but also because of its intense glow after SW the...
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Mid Wave UV Fluorescent Calcite, Logansport, Indiana
The Midwestern US is not generally thought of as being a prolific source for fluorescent minerals. With the recent development of...
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Zircon and Apatite, Pacoima Canyon CA
Pacoima Canyon in California is well known for its zircons. Less well known, these specimens also contain apatite. I was browsing my...
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Photochromic scapolite
This scapolite is surrounded by a hauyn/lazurite coating. It is made photochromic via X-ray irradiation. These specimens have the typical...
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"Amber" Calcite from Qinglong County, Qianxinan, Guizhou, China
Some new material started showing up on eBay. Not listed in the fluorescent mineral category and, as with many Chinese specimens, no...
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Brightly Fluorescent Hyalite Opal from the Erongo Mountains, Namibia
This brilliantly fluorescent specimen from the Erongo Mountains of Namibia features colorless to greenish-yellow, transparent, glassy...
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Calcite, Rensselaer Quarry, Rensselaer, Indiana
This is a unique fluorescent calcite specimen from the Rensselaer Quarry, Pleasant Ridge, Jasper County, Indiana, that shows an unusual...
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Spooky albite
Albite. Etched Baveno twins on a row. Wushan spessartine mine, Tongbei, China. The specimen shows a red fluorescence due to Fe3+. The...
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Stepped Calcite, Rensselaer Quarry, Rennselaer, Indiana
This is a rare and unique fluorescent calcite specimen from the Rensselaer Quarry, Pleasant Ridge, Jasper County, Indiana that shows a...
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Bird's Eye Sphalerite, Balmat, New York
Recently acquired bird's eye sphalerite from Balmat, NY,. They fluoresce purple/blue/green under long-wave UV. This specimen above is a...
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New find - 3 colors longwave scapolite, prehnite and calcite, from Quebec, Canada
During an exploration trip with one of my partners on April 30 2022, in the area of Saint-Michel-De-Wentworth, north-east of...
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New find - 3 colors longwave scapolite, prehnite and calcite, from Quebec, Canada
During an exploration trip with one of my partners on April 30 2022, in the area of Saint-Michel-De-Wentworth, north-east of...
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New find - 2 colors longwave scapolite and prehnite, from Quebec, Canada
During an exploration trip with one of my partners on April 30 2022, in the area of Saint-Michel-De-Wentworth, north-east of...
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Brightly Fluorescent Tugtupite from the Taseq Slope, Ilimaussaq complex, Kujalleq, Greenland
This brightly fluorescent tugtupite specimen was collected in 2005 by Mark Cole from the Western Taseq Slope of the Ilmaussaq complex,...
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