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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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Spinel, Clinohumite in Marble from Sierra de Mijas, Malaga, Spain.
Spinel and Clinohumite micro crystals on a marble matrix. From Sierra de Mijas, Málaga, Andalusia, Spain. It is a difficult material to...
Apatite Calcite crystals with Chalcedony coating from Jumilla, Spain
This is an grouping of Apatite and Calcite crystals with a Chalcedony coating from Nuestra Señora del Carmen mine, La Celia volcano,...
Calcite & dolomite; Långban mine, Filipstad, Värmland County, Sweden
Shown here is a nice little specimen of very brightly fluorescing calcite, with dolomite, from the Långban mine. This material is so...
Aragonite; Boccheggiano mines, Montieri, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy
"Boccheggiano-type aragonite", showing a very bright red fluorescence under longwave UV. As usual, the fluorescence of this specimen is...
Schalenblende, Pomorzany Mine, Olkusz, Poland
Schalenblende is an interesting rock composed of concentric layers of fine grained sphalerite, typically included with intergrown...
Greenland Fantasy Rock, a Spectacular, Multi-Colored Fluorescent Treat from the Taseq Slope
This is an excellent example of Greenland Fantasy Rock, showing a beautiful multi-colored, multi-wavelength fluorescent response under...
Yttrofluorite, Hundholmen, Norway
Yttrofluorite is defined as fluorite (CaF2), where the rare earth element yttrium replaces some of the calcium atoms, and therefore has...
Opal, Sepiolite. Cerro de los Batallones, Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain.
Opal, Sepiolite. Cerro de los Batallones, Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain. The green fluorescence with an orange contrast due to clay...
Constante Mine, Santa Marta, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain.
Santa Marta is a new location for fluorescent minerals in Spain. It is also home to the Mugemisa geological and mining museum where you...
More Fluorescents from Israel
As mentioned in a previous post, I enjoyed a recent business trip to Israel. Fortunately for me, the original hotel where I was to stay...
Phosphorescent Limestone, Mount Shaul, Israel (yes, Israel).
Israel is not known for it's fluorescent rocks. Or really any rocks at all, as laws apparently prevent collecting samples to sell (with...
Pyromorphite Resuperferolitica Mine, Spain.
Pyromorphite. Resuperferolitica Mine, Minas Viejas, Santa Eufemia, Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain. These mines developed their maximum...
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...
Acicular Aragonite.
Acicular Aragonite "aka" Aragonito de Pantoja. Deposit located in the municipality of Pantoja in Toledo. This municipality is...
Fluorite Barite with coating from Moscona mine. Spain.
Fluorite and Barite of pale fluorescence with a coating of rare sand give it a contrast that makes it really aesthetic. 90x 60 mm Under...
Calcite from Moscona mine.
Scalenohedral Calcite with inclusions of pyrite and rare sand coating possible response with a nice orange color combined with rosaceo...
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...
Smithonite, Hidrozincite, Fluorite, Calcite.
Smithonita, Hidrozincita, Fluorita, Calcita. Mina Eduardo, Güéjar Sierra, Granada, España.
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...
Apatite Jumillite Calcite Chalcedony
Apatite, Jumillita, Calcite, Chalcedony. Nuestra señora del Carmen mine ", La Celia, Jumilla, Murcia, Spain. The apatite is shown orange...
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