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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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Two colors longwave UV fluorescent specimen from Grenville-Sur-La-Rouge, Québec, Canada

This specimen consists of a combination of scapolite, with an unidentified mineral that glows very bright light blue under longwave UV....

Fluorescent albite, with scapolite, from the Laurentians, Quebec, Canada

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

Scapolite, with a uranyl-activated coating - Papineau RCM, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada

Very brightly fluorescent scapolite, from a new locality visited in October & November 2020 with one of my collecting partners....

Fluorescent Gem Scapolite from Tanzania

This sparkling little gem scapolite crystal was a find at the 2018 Tucson Gem & Mineral Show. Its country of origin is Tanzania, but the...

Afghanistan Minerals - New Identifications

There have been several posts in our Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/fluorescentminerals) recently identifying some of...

Mizzonite, Marialite, Scapolite. What's in a name?

Here's a beautiful, red fluorescing mizzonite from the mountains near Lone Pine, California. At least that's what the card reads....

Scapolite, Willemite, Calcite, Quartz, and Pyroxene: A Potpourri of Franklin Minerals

Willemite and calcite are staples of the Franklin Mine; scapolite, quartz and pyroxene, probably less so. Here's a small, but...

Phlogopite, Marialite (Scapolite) - Afghanistan

An example of marialite (member of the scapolite series) alongside massive phlogopite. The phlogopite on this piece fluoresces bright...

Afghanistan Mix - Afghanite, Phlogopite, Calcite, Scapolite, Albite - Amazing Color

And the Afghanistan rocks just keep coming! This area will be a prolific source of fluorescent minerals if we can ever get someone with...

Scapolite (Marialite) Crystals on Gypsum - Afghanistan

There’s a lot of confusion about the minerals from Afghanistan. Sometimes they are called wernerite, other times scapolite, and even...

Marialite (Scapolite) Crystal - Badahkshan, Afghanistan

Typically marialite from Afghanistan is fluorescent a deep red under SW. This specimen appears extra rich in color to me. On top of...

Scapolite (Marialite) Crystals on Matrix, Afghanistan - Multi-Wave response, on Talc

There’s a lot of confusion about the minerals from Afghanistan. Sometimes they are called wernerite, other times scapolite, and even...

Marialite Crystal - Afghanistan

There’s a lot of confusion about the minerals from Afghanistan. Sometimes they are called wernerite, other times scapolite, and even...

Amazingly (Deeply) Tenebrescent Marialite (Scapolite), w/ Sodalite, Phlogopite from Afghanistan

Amazing tenebrescence (rapid change - both darken and fade), phosphorescence, bright fluorescence. If I am correct on my analysis of...

Scapolite Crystal, Yates Mine, Québec, Canada

This is a particularly well-formed, terminated, single, crystal of fluorescent scapolite from the Yates mine, Otter Lake, Québec, Canada....

Scapolite, Feldspar and Uraninite; Ontario, Canada

Very interesting fluorescent specimen consisting of a cluster of large, blocky, light-colored scapolite crystals (partially altered to...

Scapolite and Calcite, Sterling Hill, New Jersey

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

Scapolite, Valyermo, California

California has a wide variety of minerals from a wide variety of locales. Here is a scapolite from Valyermo, in the High Desert area of...

Scapolite Crystal - Badakshan, Afghanistan

Gem scapolite from Afghanistan is not really a bright fluorescent specimen, but bares mentioning. This piece is best under SW - no idea...

Scapolite Crystals - Badakshan, Afghanistan, the next big locality for fluorescent minerals

This rock is from Badakhshan, Afghanistan. It has purple scapolite crystals that glow red in SW. The pinkish matrix next to the large...

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