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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, Hackmanite, Winchite; Sar-E-Sang, Afghanistan

Phlogopite, hackmanite, and winchite from Sar-E-Sang Jurm, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. The phlogopite, a mica, glows yellow, the...

Purple Hackmanite - Afghanistan

If you like fluorescent rocks you will really like this. I recently purchased a flat of top grade extreme color changing hackmanite mine...

Fluorescent Afghanite Crystals on Calcite, from Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan

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

Some fishy inclusions: Quartz

These petroleum and tar inclusions look like tropical fish... The larger green and brown inclusion (white light) are real. All the others...

Phlogopite in calcite

Phlogopite fluorescing yellowish green in red fluorescing calcite. Under SW-UV. Locality: Badakhshan, Afghanistan. Source: Fluorescent...

Afghanite

Fluoresces orange due to the disulfide ion. Exactly the same activator as with sodalite, meionite var. Wernerite, nosean, hauyne and...

Scapolite Crystals - Badakshan, Afghanistan, the next big locality for fluorescent minerals

This rock is from Badakhshan, Afghanistan. It has purple scapolite crystals that glow red in SW. The pinkish matrix next to the large...

This rock proves there are some major discoveries waiting to be made in Afghanistan - Sodalite and W

How 'bout you grab your UV light, hop on a plane and head out to the mines in the remote mountains of Afghanistan. I guarantee you will...