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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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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....
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Daylight fluorescent fluorite from England
Cabinet-sized specimen of fluorite from the Rogerley Mine, Rogerley Quarry, Stanhope, County Durham, England, with the typical daylight...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Brightly fluorescent opal from Maine
Old-time specimen of brightly fluorescent opal-AN from the Lord Hill Quarry, Stoneham, Oxford County, Maine, recently acquired in a...
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Phlogopite, Forsterite in Marble from Afghanistan.
Centimetric Phlogopite crystals with Fluo Orange LW-MW yellow SW and Forsterite or diopsid (difficult to differentiate without an...
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Cerussite on Dolomite crystals from Morocco.
Twinned dipyramidal crystals (cyclic twin) of Cerussite on rhombohedral Dolomite micro crystals with intense red UVC fluo, Cerussite is...
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Fluorite, Baryte from Berbes Spain with red fluo LW 365nm
The Berbes mining area, in Ribadesella Asturias, Spain is a classic for Spanish minerals from its mines many world-class specimens have...
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Spinel, Clinohumite in Marble from Sierra de Mijas, Malaga, Spain.
Spinel and Clinohumite micro crystals on a marble matrix. From Sierra de Mijas, Málaga, Andalusia, Spain. It is a difficult material to...
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Apatite Calcite crystals with Chalcedony coating from Jumilla, Spain
This is an grouping of Apatite and Calcite crystals with a Chalcedony coating from Nuestra Señora del Carmen mine, La Celia volcano,...
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