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Fluorescent Mineral Photo Gallery

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Small (approximately 1mm) hexagonal white crystals of willemite on a dark unidentified matrix, from the lead/zinc/silver mine of...

Daylight fluorescence is a phenomenon where some fluorescent minerals show a noticeable color change under sunlight, due to the UV...

England has some very interesting and famous fluorescent materials. Material from the Danby Level, Northside Mines, Whaw, Arkengarthdale,...

The Emerald Isle seems to be woefully under-represented when it comes to fluorescent minerals. However, here's a nice little piece from...

Shortwave and Midwave

Though not a stunning fluorescent material, Colemanite is typically quite bright and sometimes phosphorescent. This specimen, from the...

This calcite and hydrozincite combo comes from an old Belgian lead/zinc mine near Plombières, Liège province, Belgium. The locality is no...

Very sharp calcite needles that fluoresce a stong greenish white with an equally strong phosphorescence. Clearly some polycyclic aromatic...

Concentric rings in spheres of acicular quartz. Photo under combined LW and MW-UV (both fluorescence photos) and under white light....

From Weardale, Durham, UK, comes this lovely combo. Under midwave UV you get the fluorescence of both the fluorite and the calcite....

On less than 1 cm² we find these three minerals. Calcite fluoresces red, aragonite fluoresces greenish white, cerussite is intergrown...

A spray of aragonite embedded in clay. From Pantoja, Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. The spray is about 2 cm wide. Source: Fluorescent...

This is not Tarnowitsite, the plumbo-aragonite variety, but rather a mixture of aragonite and cerussite. The latter causes the yellowish...

This is a cut quartzite slab containing veins of scheelite with minor mica schist. From the Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten AG Mine,...

Gemmy, green cubes of fluorite with minor non-fluorescent galena on a light brown matrix, from the source of some of the most beautiful...

In the early 70’s a small deposit of bright yellow fluorescing quartz was discovered near the town of La Sassa, Tuscany, Italy. The...

The fluorescent mineral is spodumene but the piece has all kinds of other minerals - quite pretty under white light. I find the MW...

From the Clashgorm Mine, Strontian, Argyllshire. Scotland. It was collected in 1998. I was fascinated by the concentric triangles shown...

Here's a specimen of Celestite crystals and sulfur on matrix from Sicily, Italy. A fairly bright specimen and does have a slight color...

Old-time specimen from Sicily - simply amazing. Sadly I only have this SW picture. Currently in the collection of Earl V.