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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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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...

Bright and Colorful Multi-Wave Afghanite Specimen from Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Here's a specimen from Sar-e-Sang, Koksha Valley, Badakhshan, Afghanistan that displays well under both UV and visible light. When...

Sodalite Var. Hackmanite from Afghanistan

Nice little specimen of deeply tenebrescent hackmanite with [richterite?] from the Koksha Valley, Kuran Wa Munjan District, Badakhshan,...

"Multiwave" fluorescent phlogopite from Afghanistan

Nice cabinet sized specimen, consisting of a phlogopite crystal in a calcitic marble matrix, from the Koksha Valley, Badakhshan Province,...

Unusual Hauyne Crystals from Afghanistan

This specimen is from Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan. The specimen contains 3 fluorescent minerals, gonnardite ((Na,Ca)2(Si,Al)5O10...

Forsterite from Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

I replied to a question [in the FB FLM group] asked by Robert Jones about a red phosphorescent mineral in a specimen containing Lazurite...

sodalite specimen from Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

I like to collect fluorescent rocks that also tell a story about their formation. This is a sodalite specimen from Sar-e-Sang,...

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...

Afghanistan Minerals - New Identifications

There have been several posts in our Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/fluorescentminerals) recently identifying some of...

Phlogopite, Afghanite, Calcite, Unknowns...a different point of view

White glassy calcite matrix mainly covered by Afghanite Phlogopite and other several varieties of fluorescent and NF minerals in small...

Kunzite (Spodumene) Kunar Valley Afghanistan.

Esta es una Spodumena var. Kuncita en matriz procedente del Valle Kunar en Afganistan. Se muestra bajo LW con una intensa respuesta...

Spodumene var. Kunzite Dara-I-Pech

This is the tip of a large kunzite crystal (130 * 30 *5 mm) in halogen light, 365 nm Convoy S2+, and MW-UV respectively. When lighted...

Phlogopite, Marialite (Scapolite) - Afghanistan

An example of marialite (member of the scapolite series) alongside massive phlogopite. The phlogopite on this piece fluoresces bright...

Hauyne, Gonnardite, Phlogopite, Calcite - Afghanistan

Hauyne (bluish SW, yellow LW), Gonnardite (bluish white all), Phlogopite (yellow SW), Calcite (reddish SW and MW) - a great example of...

Afghanite, Calcite, Phlogopite, and more - Afghanistan

Afghanite - duller yellow longwave, phlogopite - bright yellow shortwave, calcite - reddish SW and MW, albite crystals(?) - white SW, and...

Sodalite (Hauyne?), Phlogopite, Calcite, Gonnardite - Afghanistan

Under shortwave - 1st pic - bright yellow phlogopite crystals on a backdrop of reddish fluorescing calcite, bluish gonnardite (supposed)....

Vorobyevite, Apatite, on Feldspar - Afghanistan

Vorobyevite is a member of the beryl family. It is a cesium beryl - rich in REE cesium. Naturally colored a light blue, it is very...

Afghanistan Mix - Afghanite, Phlogopite, Calcite, Scapolite, Albite - Amazing Color

And the Afghanistan rocks just keep coming! This area will be a prolific source of fluorescent minerals if we can ever get someone with...

Scapolite (Marialite) Crystals on Gypsum - Afghanistan

There’s a lot of confusion about the minerals from Afghanistan. Sometimes they are called wernerite, other times scapolite, and even...

Sodalite (Hauyne?), Phlogopite, Gonnardite, Unknowns - Afghanistan

When I first started bringing rocks back from Greenland we were mystified by our finds. Tugtupite and sodalite were obvious, but the...

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