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

An interesting chip calcite on fluorite from Chenzhou, Hunan, China. What's really different is that each calcite chip seems to have a...

Cluster of large, light purple, stepped, fluorite cubes, from the historic Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District, Cave-In-Rock, Hardin...

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...

A small percentage of purple fluorite from the Ojuela Mine in Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, shows a beautiful, rich, red fluorescence under UV....

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

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

Amber-colored, cubic fluorite crystals on a bed of scalenohedral calcite, on limestone matrix, from Pint's Quarry, Raymond, Black Hawk...

Root beer-colored fluorite cubes with white translucent blades of celestine, from the Stoneco White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa Co.,...

A single, large, root beer-colored fluorite cube with minor translucent celestine, from the Stoneco White Rock Quarry, Clay Center,...

A really stunning piece from the Hull Mine, in Arizona. Red calcite, blue fluorite, green willemite, and potentially white...

Arizona has a lot of great mines and stunning material. Here's a nice one from the the Black Rock Mine in Yuma County, Arizona. Great...

A large and pretty calcite specimen from the Taolin Mine, Linxiang County, Hunan, China. The calcite glows a bright red in SW and a much...

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

If I had to pick the top five fluorescent localities in the world I would pick the Hogan claim in AZ as one. They are bright and...

From the desert of southern Arizona, this is a very ordinary and nondescript looking rock in daylight, as is the case with many...

A small percentage of purple fluorite from the Ojuela Mine in Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, shows a beautiful, rich, red fluorescence under...

This pair of yellow fluorite cubes from Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois, show a very interesting multi-wave fluorescent response due t