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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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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...
Liebigite, Schwartzwalder Mine, Jefferson Co., Colorado
Yellowish green scales of liebigite on schist, from the Schwartzwalder Mine, Jefferson Co., Colorado. Liebigite is a secondary uranyl...
Lava Cap Thunder Egg, Deming, New Mexico
A cut, but unpolished, Lava Cap Thunder Egg half, containing chalcedony, calcite and manganese oxide pseudomorphs, enclosed in a rhyolite...
Fluorapatite, Harding Mine, Taos Co., New Mexico
Blue-green fluorapatite in a Harding pegmatite groundmass consisting of quartz and muscovite schist. From the Harding Mine, near Dixon,...
Calcite, Fluorite, Willemite, and Aragonite?; Hull Mine, Arizona
A really stunning piece from the Hull Mine, in Arizona. Red calcite, blue fluorite, green willemite, and potentially white...
Calcite, Fluorite, Willemite; Black Rock Mine, Arizona
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...
Sweetwater Agate, Agate Flats, Wyoming
This is a nodule of Sweetwater Agate, a translucent grey/blue dendritic agate found in the Agate Flats area, north of the Sweetwater...
Terlingua Calcite- Terlingua, Texas
Terlingua calcite is one of the most spectacular and beautiful fluorescent minerals due to its bright, multi-colored, multi-wave,...
Fluorite, Calcite, Smithsonite, Willemite - Hogan claim AZ
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...
Multi-Colored Wickenburgite, Willemite and Fluorite, from the Potter-Cramer Mine, Maricopa Co., Ariz
From the desert of southern Arizona, this is a very ordinary and nondescript looking rock in daylight, as is the case with many...
Fluorescent Calcite and Scheelite from the Ophir Hill Mine, Tooele County, Utah
Tabular calcite crystals and small scheelite octahedrons on limestone matrix, from the Ophir Hill Mine, Ophir, Tooele County, Utah. At...
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