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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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Fluorite and Willemite from the Red Cloud Mine, La Paz County, Arizona
Located in the Trigo Mountains of La Paz County, Arizona, the Red Cloud mine is a location famous for producing some of the best...
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Fluorescent Zincite from the Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, New Jersey
Zincite is considered to be a rare mineral, occurring in quantity at only Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey. In its pure form,...
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Exsolution Willemite, Calcite - Sterling Hill NJ
A premium example of exsolution Willemite in brown Tephroite, with Calcite, and Franklinite (NF) from Sterling Hill NJ. It measures...
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Two-Color Calcite and Willemite from a New Find- The Night Hawk Mine in New Mexico
This exceptional two-color fluorescent specimen was collected by notable New Mexico collectors Ken and Gail Hennig from a new find in...
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Scalenoedric Calcite "dog's tooth" from La Cruz mine, Spain.
Scalenoedric calcite "dog's tooth". La Cruz mine, El Cobre stream, Linares, Linares-La Carolina district, Jaén, Andalusia, Spain. The...
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Calcite, Fluorite, Willemite, Smithsonite, Aragonite from Arizona
This specimen was mined during a trip with Bill Gardner in the 2005 and comes from Hogan Claim site. Nothing to say about the calcite...
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Calcite from Moscona mine.
Scalenohedral Calcite with inclusions of pyrite and rare sand coating possible response with a nice orange color combined with rosaceo...
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Calcite, Fluorite, Pyrite from Moscona Mine.
Moscona mine. More known for its fluorites of unusual white fluorescence with long phosphorescence in some samples being more common in...
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Calcite and Sulfur from the Maybee Quarry, Maybee, Michigan
A fluorescent beauty from the Midwest. Yes, there are fluorescent minerals in the Midwest! Brightly fluorescent/phosphorescent calcite...
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Margarosanite and Calcite from the Jakobsberg Mine, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden
This rock is from the Jakobsberg mine, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden, and consists of a fine grained, olive/tan colored matrix with calcite...
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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...
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Fluorite, Calcite, Willemite; the Hull Mine, Castle Dome Mountains, Arizona
Arizona is home to some great fluorescent rock collecting (as well as some of the best birding in North America). Great mines are...
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Spectacular 5-Color Rock from Franklin, New Jersey, Featuring Esperite, Calcite, Hardystonite, Wille
When it comes to fluorescent rocks, the brighter and more colors seen under UV, the better. Franklin, New Jersey, the Fluorescent...
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Fluorite Cubes, Walworth Quarry, Walworth, New York
The Walworth Quarry has been a productive source of highly desirable fluorite specimens for many years. The Walworth fluorites are...
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Terlingua Calcite, a Multi-Wavelength Beauty from the Mercury Mines of Terlingua, Texas
Some calcite specimens collected from the area of Terlingua, Texas show one of the most spectacular and beautiful examples of...
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A Beautiful Midwestern Fluorescent Classic- Celestine, Strontianite and Calcite from the Stoneco Lim
This is a matrix-free cluster of blocky white celestine crystals, partially altered to strontianite, and honey-colored calcite...
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Calcite, near Short Gap, Mineral County, West Virginia
West Virginia is not known for a lot of fluorescents. That said, this calcite is a really nice one and very bright, and phosphorescent...
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Calcite, Kamioka Mine, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Not many fluorescents seem to come from Japan. This one is a very nice, though small, calcite from the Kamioka Mine in Kamioka Town,...
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Beautiful Mid Wave UV Fluorescent Calcite from Putnam Co., Indiana
White to tan-colored, bladed calcite crystals on a matrix of solid granular calcite. This specimen was collected from an unknown...
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Calcite, Chihuahua, Mexico
Another specimen from an old collection, this one an interesting calcite from Chihuahua, Mexico . Anyway, though this one looks like it...
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