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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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Eucryptite from Namibia
This is a large slab cut from a big Eucryptite nodule. From a new location! Strathmore pegmatites, Cape Cross area, Erongo Region,...
Calcite with dolomite and quartz, from Sainte-Clotilde, Québec, Canada
The now inaccessible Chenail quarry (Formerly Marcil quarry), in Sainte-Clotilde-de-Châteauguay, Montérégie, Québec, Canada, is a classic...
Tenebrescent blue sodalite, zircon, feldspar, etc, from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
This is one of many specimens I recovered from a boulder in the quarry in Mont Saint-Hilaire in 2018. While it's far from being the best...
Two colors longwave UV fluorescent specimen from Grenville-Sur-La-Rouge, Québec, Canada
This specimen consists of a combination of scapolite, with an unidentified mineral that glows very bright light blue under longwave UV....
Gemmy "Terlingua-type" calcite with blue light and green laser fluorescence
Shown here is a pretty small but nicely transparent, gemmy cleavage rhomb of "Terlingua-type" calcite from the Challenger Cave, Nuevo...
"Terlingua-type" calcite with unusual yellow midwave UV response
A few months ago, I purchased this nice and quite big cleavage rhomb of "terlingua-type" calcite, from the Challenger Cave, Nuevo Leon,...
Brightly fluorescent ruby from India
While not being a high-end specimen since the ruby is not crystallized, this specimen is still a nice addition to my longwave UV cabinet....
Fluorescent and phosphorescent calcite from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Nice small cabinet specimen, consisting of two successive generations of calcite, from the world-renowned Poudrette Quarry in Mont...
"Rainbow" assortment of longwave UV reactive minerals
As all experienced fluorescent minerals collectors know, shortwave UV is the wavelength under which there's the greatest variety of...
Calcite Fluorite from Berta quarry, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
The Berta quarry is an inactive quarry located on the northwest slope of the Sierra de Roques Blanques, in the municipalities of San...
Fluorapatite var."Spargelstein" from Jumilla, Spain.
Fluorapatite var."Spargelstein" on Hematite (not fluo) covered with small spheres of Calcite and Chalcedony. From Nuestra Señora del...
Violet laser reactive "optical calcite" from the area of Gatineau, Qc, Canada
Small calcite cleavage from a now depleted small occurrence near Gatineau, in Outaouais, Quebec, Canada. Fluoresces pretty nicely under...
Daylight fluorescent fluorite from England
Cabinet-sized specimen of fluorite from the Rogerley Mine, Rogerley Quarry, Stanhope, County Durham, England, with the typical daylight...
Multicolor fluorescent calcite from the area of Gatineau, Qc, Canada
In daylight, this specimen is something most collectors would not even bother looking at; but since I knew calcite from this locale,...
LW violet fluorite from the Rogers Mine, Madoc, Ontario, Canada
Fluorite specimens from this locale are quite popular, especially in Canada, among collectors of "white light minerals", but rarely...
Daylight fluorescent fluorite from the 2020 Milky Way pocket, Diana Maria mine, England
Shown here is a modest specimen from the Milky Way pocket in the Diana Maria Mine (Sutcliffe Vein), Rogerley Quarry, Stanhope, County...
LW red fluorescing fluorite from Morocco
Shown here is a nice specimen of rare red-fluorescing fluorite from the Taourirt Province, Oriental Region, Morocco, that I recently...
Fluorescent mica from three different localities
Last year, one of my partners and I found lots of SW UV reactive phlogopite in the Lower Laurentians, Quebec, Canada, often associated...
Scheelite, with calcite and fluorite, from Hunan, China
Nice little specimen from the Chashan Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China. Interestingly, the...
A quatuor of fluorescent fluorites
Anyone with a basic fluorescent minerals collection has a blue-fluorescing fluorite, the most common color in fluorescent fluorites; many...
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