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Here’s an interesting little fluorescent specimen from an obscure Midwestern location, consisting of small clusters of honey-colored...

Collected in October 2016 during a visit with Mark and John in the late afternoon. In just a few minutes I learned some very valuable...

Shortwave and Midwave

Paul Garland was a prolific collector and photographer of fluorescent minerals. Sadly, he passed a while ago. I obtained permission...

This is an exceptionally bright fluorescent specimen of amber-colored fluorite cubes on a bed of micro calcite crystals, on limestone...

This is a striking specimen from the Purple Passion Mine, Wickenburg area, Yavapai Co., Arizona, consisting of coarsely crystalline rock...

This one's a bit unusual for much of the material collected from along the roads in the Black Wonder District in the Diablo Range in...

Coyote Hole is relatively unknown to the fluorescent rock world, but clearly has some interesting material. Here is a piece that appears...

The desert Southwest has so much to offer in landscape, wildlife, geology and fluorescent rocks. Here's a nice scheelite and calcite from...

This is a larger specimen consisting of what appear to be two generations of calcite crystals on a limestone matrix, from the Linwood...

These macro photographs show a very interesting multi-wavelength fluorescent response in a single, modified scalenohedral calcite...

Here's an interesting piece from the Huanzala Mine, in Ancash, Peru: fluorite surrounded by botryoidal calcite in almost a geode like...

Gemmy, modified scalenohedral, calcite crystals with marcasite inclusions, on limestone matrix, from the Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Scott...

This is a very bright esperite specimen from the Franklin Mine, Franklin, New Jersey. Having excellent esperite coverage, this specimen...

Calcite, modified scalenohedrons with dark marcasite inclusions. Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa, USA. Under long wave UV...

Patterns of bright red fluorescing calcite with pockets of aragonite make these pieces interesting and eye-catching. Also, there appears...

From the Puttapa zinc mine (Beltana mine), a site famous for producing spectacularly colorful fluorescent specimens, this rock has a...

Fluorescent calcite and willemite from the Stevenson-Bennett Mine, Organ Mts, Doña Ana Co., New Mexico. Under short wave UV the calcite...

This rock contains an assemblage of light, colorless scapolite and calcite and dark franklinite, from the famous Sterling Mine, Sterling...

This spectacular rock contains an assemblage of fluorescent calcite, willemite and fluorite in a brown/red-colored groundmass, and is...