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Fluorescent Mineral Photo Gallery

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This is a spectacular and unique fluorescent specimen that has a lot going on under every UV wavelength. It perhaps shows the greatest...

This is a large cluster of intergrown, prismatic, light golden/smoky colored barite crystals, on a minimal limestone matrix. It was...

Tabular calcite crystals and small scheelite octahedrons on limestone matrix, from the Ophir Hill Mine, Ophir, Tooele County, Utah. At...

Cubic yellow fluorite crystals on limestone matrix, collected in 2016 from a roadcut in Bedford, Indiana. This fluorite shows a very...

Cubic yellow fluorite crystals on limestone matrix, collected in 2016 from a roadcut in Bedford, Indiana. This fluorite shows a very...

Green octahedral fluorite crystals on a mixed matrix of colorless calcite and fluorite, from the William Wise Mine, Westmoreland,...

Hyalite opal from the Chalk Mountain Mine, in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, provides a classic example of uranyl-activated green...

This is a subtle, but beautiful fluorescent specimen from a classic Cave-In-Rock, IL, location- the Annabel Lee Mine. Comprised of a...

Walstromite is pretty much limited to a few locations in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. Here’s a very...

Bright white scheelite from the Rainbow Mine in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California. Shown in shortwave and natural light. The...

And if that’s not enough, minerals include: Calcite (red), Barytocalcite (pink), Witherite (cream), Baryte (yellowish white), Fluorite...

Salmon calcite looks like fresh, raw salmon. For the sushi aficionados and fisherman alike, you understand. This piece has veins of...

Salmon calcite matches its namesake—raw salmon. This piece is composed of beautiful crystals of the pink colored calcite and weighs in at...

Wollastonite is a relatively common, but still sought after fluorescent material from the Sterling Hill Mine. This specimen, weighing in...

Gemmy, green cubes of fluorite with minor non-fluorescent galena on a light brown matrix, from the source of some of the most beautiful...

Wisconsin is famous for its dairy production and badgers, but is not generally known as a source of fluorescent minerals. In 1826, lead...

This is a classic fluorescent specimen from the Franklin Mine, in Franklin, New Jersey- the self-proclaimed "Fluorescent Mineral Capital...

Many people don't realize that located 1200 feet below the city of Detriot, Michigan, lies a massive, active, underground salt mine. The...

This is a cluster of milky white calcite crystals from the Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri,...

A plate of off-white barite crystals on a limestone matrix, from the Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Scott Co., Iowa. This particular material is...