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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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Hackmanite, scapolite, johachidolite, etc., from Myanmar
Small but lovely specimen, consisting of hackmanite, scapolite, johachidolite and feldspar. The hackmanite is so tenebrescent, even under...
Hackmanite, scapolite and feldspar, from Myanmar
Small but really nice specimen, consisting of sodalite var. hackmanite, along with scapolite and feldspar. The hackmanite shows deep...
Hackmanite, scapolite, johachidolite, feldspar, etc, from Myanmar
Shown here is a very nice specimen of super deeply tenebrescent sodalite var. hackmanite, from the Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District,...
Gem Scapolite Crystal from Karur, India
This large, pale yellow, gem scapolite crystal is from the scapolite locality in the Karur District, Tamil Nadu, India. It is...
New find - 3 colors longwave scapolite, prehnite and calcite, from Quebec, Canada
During an exploration trip with one of my partners on April 30 2022, in the area of Saint-Michel-De-Wentworth, north-east of...
New find - 3 colors longwave scapolite, prehnite and calcite, from Quebec, Canada
During an exploration trip with one of my partners on April 30 2022, in the area of Saint-Michel-De-Wentworth, north-east of...
New find - 2 colors longwave scapolite and prehnite, from Quebec, Canada
During an exploration trip with one of my partners on April 30 2022, in the area of Saint-Michel-De-Wentworth, north-east of...
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...
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...
Marialite Crystal - Afghanistan
There’s a lot of confusion about the minerals from Afghanistan. Sometimes they are called wernerite, other times scapolite, and even other times misidentified as sodalite/hackmanite. Wernerite is an obsolete name used to describe a member of the scapolite group. So far, all of these crystallized specimens appear to be marialite - so that’s what I’m gonna call it. This piece is a large crystal of gem translucent piece of marialite. Under SW it fluoresces a deep red, and a
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 this specimen (and I believe that I am) this is a major discovery (for me). Read more below the pics... There’s a lot of confusion about the minerals from Afghanistan. Sodalite, afghanite, hauyne, scapolite, lapis, on and on.... They are all interrelated and easily mistaken for one another. The scapolites are often munged. Sometimes they
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...
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