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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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Afghanite disguised nr2
Another example of a disguised afghanite from Koksha, Badakhshan, Afghnistan. Sold as sodalite coated with Mn-oxide. But the emission...
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Afghnanite disguised
A typical blue mineral from the Koksha valley, Badakhshan, Afghanistan with a typical orange fluorescence. Usually this is hauyne. But in...
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Lazurite with shiny stars
A specimen containing lazurite crystals and phlogopite (visible under 275 nm), Koksha valley, Badakhshan, Afghanistan. The lazurite...
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Polylithionite, danburite
Polylithionite and danburite, Sosedka pegmatite, Malkhan, Krasni Chikoy, Zabaykalsky, Russia. Most of the minerals there are on an...
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Phlogopite in calcite
Phlogopite in calcite, Koksha valley, Badakhshan, Afghanistan (specimen courtesy of Wouter Van Tichelen). UV-C @275 nm
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Polylithionite, Albite, and some small tourmalines
Polylithionite, albite and tourmaline, Chappu, Braldu valley, Shigar, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Again a less known polylithionite area....
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Polylithionite, boromuscovite and borocoockeite.
Three unfrequent minerals from the Sosedka pegmatite, Malkhan, Zabaykalsky, Russia. Malkhan is known for its beautiful red tourmalines....
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Masutomilite, an uncommon mica
Masutomilite, Kazennitsa quarry, Murzinka, Ural, Russia. Masutomilite is the Mn equivalent of ferro-polylithionite. The blue fluorescence...
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Sodalite and twinned albite, Norway
Sodaliet and albite, Sagåsen Quarry, Auenlandet, Porsgrunn, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway. My other post explains the bluish green...
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Sodalite with special fluorescence from Norway
Sodaliet and albite, Sagåsen Quarry, Auenlandet, Porsgrunn, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway. The piece has sodalite in a blue and a grey...
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Red Fe3+ fluorescence in alkali-feldspar
Trivalent iron gives a red fluorescence in feldspars. It can even be used to distinguish between sodium and potassium feldspar. The...
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Buildup of afterglow in photochromic sodalite
Photochromic sodalite, Koksha valley, Badakhsha, Afghanistan, 310 nm LED. The white fluorescence is due to Ti3+. At the same time there...
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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,...
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Fluorite from Elmwood, Carthage TN
The Elmwood mine produces very little remarkable fluorescent material. The fluorites are usually dimly fluorescent, The calcites are...
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Wernerite (scapolite) with Unknown - Quebec Canada
I went down to the barn last night to crack rock for the upcoming 2022 midwest "Glow Show" in Kentucky. Knowing there would be folks...
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Pargasite and Diopside, Franklin Quarry, Franklin, New Jersey
This rock contains large grains of green pargasite and grey-white diopside, and is quite attractive under both UV and visible light. It...
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Ruby Crystals in Matrix, Mysore, India
This corundum specimen from Mysore, Karnataka, India is especially rich in brightly fluorescent ruby crystals. The luscious, velvety red...
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Diopside and Calcite, Pitwak Mine, Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
This exceptional fluorescent specimen consists of numerous blocky diopside crystals encrusted upon and embedded within a calcite-marble...
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Yttrofluorite, Joseph Mine, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
Yttrofluorite is a variety of fluorite in which the rare earth element yttrium substitutes for some of the calcium in the fluorite (CaF2)...
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The Next Evolution in Fluorescent Mineral Flashlights - Shortwave and Midwave
(work in progress....) Just a few years ago my feeling was that we would not see SW flashlights "in my lifetime". I was so wrong. They...
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