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Anyone with a basic fluorescent minerals collection has a blue-fluorescing fluorite, the most common color in fluorescent fluorites; many...

This calcite specimen, with the typical red fluorescence (best MW, then SW, then LW, as it's often the case with red fluorescing...

Nice small cabinet-sized specimen, consisting of calcite crystals, over milky quartz crystals. As it's often the case with typical red...

Shown here is a pretty nice cabinet-sized specimen of calcite with dolomite, on a dolostone matrix, found near the town of...

Shown in the slideshow below is a nice combination piece consisting mostly of brightly fluorescing hackmanite, with some SW fluorescing...

While not being spectacularly bright, this specimen is still pretty interesting because fluorescent inclusions in quartz crystals from...

Shown here is a nice specimen of fluorescent calcitic marble from this well-known Canadian locale. The most abundant mineral is the red...

Shown here is a nice cabinet-sized specimen of calc-silicated skarn rock containing scapolite (typical bright yellow response under LW),...

Nice crystals of light yellowish-amber fluorite, lining a vug in dolomitic limestone. From the famous Flamboro Quarry (often misspelled...

The specimen shown here, while not having the most spectacular brightness, is still a really nice display piece. Its transparency makes...

Here is a nice little cabinet specimen of quite brightly fluorescing chabazite crystals, on an orthogneiss matrix, from a secret locality...

Small but pretty nice cabinet specimen of highly fluorescent calcite from a rarely heard-of locality in the Gaspe peninsula (Gaspésie) in...

In daylight, calcite specimens from this rarely heard-of (and now depleted) locale are not quite spectacular; just white rhombohedral...

Beautiful specimen of sodalite var. hackmanite, from the now inaccessible Davis quarry, near Bancroft. This specimen was given to me by a...

Nice cabinet-sized specimen of sodalite var. hackmanite, from a recent find in the District of Sudbury, in Ontario, Canada. It is...

Small but pretty nice specimen of sodalite var. hackmanite, from a recent find in the District of Sudbury, in Ontario, Canada. It is...

Shown here is a nice cabinet-sized specimen of sodalite var. hackmanite, from a recent find in the District of Sudbury, in Ontario,...

While not being of considerable size, this is one of the most aesthetic specimens in my collection. It consists of a well-formed rosette...

During many years, this Canadian locality has been quite popular; really nice specimens of calcite, dolomite, fluorite, etc, were found...

The Sainte-Clotilde quarry (formerly Marcil quarry) near the village of Sainte-Clotilde-De-Châteauguay in Montérégie, Québec, now...