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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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Wollastonite, Calcite and Possible Hardystonite, Desert View Mine
This colorful fluorescent specimen is from the Desert View Mine, Holcomb Valley, San Bernardino Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, and...
Calcite Cleavage Rhomb, Utah
Colorless, translucent, calcite cleavage rhomb from an unknown location in Utah. Looking somewhat average under visible light, it shows...
Fluorescent Calcite, Fluorite, Willemite, from the Purple Passion Mine, Arizona
This is a striking specimen from the Purple Passion Mine, Wickenburg area, Yavapai Co., Arizona, consisting of coarsely crystalline rock...
Calcite, Hyalite Opal, and unknowns; Coyote Hole, NV
Coyote Hole is relatively unknown to the fluorescent rock world, but clearly has some interesting material. Here is a piece that appears...
Calcite and Scheelite; Temp Piute Mine, Nevada
The desert Southwest has so much to offer in landscape, wildlife, geology and fluorescent rocks. Here's a nice scheelite and calcite from...
Natrozippeite from the Little Eva Mine, Grand County, Utah
Natrozippeite, also known as sodium zippeite, is a secondary hydrous sodium uranium sulfate that commonly forms as efflorescent...
Calcite and Aragonite, Helvetia Mine, Arizona
Patterns of bright red fluorescing calcite with pockets of aragonite make these pieces interesting and eye-catching. Also, there appears...
Opalized Volcanic Tuff, Burro Creek, Arizona
Light-colored, dendritic, brecciated opalized volcanic tuff (opalite) having a sponge like texture. Contains weblike veins of hyalite...
Fluorescent Tremolite from the Land of the Greatest Snow on Earth
This is a very nice fluorescent specimen from a location that is near and dear to my heart. This piece contains small, bladed crystals...
Fluorescent, Phosphorescent, Triboluminescent Sphalerite, Frisco, Utah
This is an outstanding specimen of sphalerite that displays several very interesting luminescent phenomena. It was collected from an...
Miserite, Wollastonite, Aegirine (nf), Arkansas
Here's an interesting example of miserite, wollastonite, and aegirine from the Union Carbide Vanadium Mine, Potash Sulphur Springs,...
Calcite and Willemite, Stevenson-Bennett Mine, New Mexico
Fluorescent calcite and willemite from the Stevenson-Bennett Mine, Organ Mts, Doña Ana Co., New Mexico. Under short wave UV the calcite...
Calcite, Willemite and Fluorite from the Hogan Claim, Wickenburg area, Arizona
This spectacular rock contains an assemblage of fluorescent calcite, willemite and fluorite in a brown/red-colored groundmass, and is...
Fluorescent Calcite Vein in Wheeler Shale, Delta, UT
This is a simple, but interesting fluorescent specimen that dates back to the age of the trilobites. A vein of light-colored calcite...
Wollastonite, Miserite, Aegirine; Arkansas
Not known for fluorescents, Arkansas delivered with this piece of wollastonite, miserite, and aegirine from the Union Carbide Vanadium...
Cryolithionite, Zapot Pegmatite, Mineral Co., Nevada
Cryolithionite is a rare lithium-containing mineral that occurs at only a few locations worldwide. This specimen was collected from the...
Wollastonite, Calcite, and Hydrozincite, Big Yellow Mine, Utah
This is a small, but spectacular fluorescent specimen, collected in 2016 from the Big Yellow Mine, located on the back side of Indian...
Eucryptite, Harding Mine, Taos Co., New Mexico
This specimen contains intensely red fluorescent eucryptite in weak blue fluorescent spodumene, from the Harding Mine (Harding...
Multi-Wave Hemimorphite, Petroglyph Mine, New Mexico
This is an interesting multi-wave fluorescent specimen consisting of light-colored hemimorphite on an unknown brown matrix, from the...
Dugway Geode, Dugway Geode Beds, Juab County, Utah
Many of the geodes collected from the famous Dugway Geode Beds in the Utah West Desert show impressive green fluorescence under UV. This...
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