Fluorescent Minerals by Species
Phlogopite
With scapolite here we will mean both marialite and meionite, since the two are often hard to...
Prehnite
Prehnite is seldom fluorescent; typically blue under longwave UV light.Fluorescence under longwave...
Sanidine
Sanidine. SC262 – Nosean on Sanidine and Orthoclase from In den Dellen quarries, Mendig,...
Scapolite
With scapolite here we will mean both marialite and meionite, since the two are often hard to...
Scheelite
Scheelite is one of the minerals with intrinsic fluorescence: the tungstate group in scheelite,...
Smithsonite
Smithsonite, quite often fluorescent, multiple colors longwave or shortwave, but not too often...
My Mineral Collection
SC995 – Celestine from the Machów Mine, Poland
Cluster of clear celestine crystals, with a little yellow sulphur at the base. The celestine...
SC858 – Fluoborite from the Sterling Mine, Ogdensburg, New Jersey, USA
Fluoborite in a marble matrix with small pyrite grains and graphite flakes. The fluoborite...
SC807 – Stevensite from Paterson, New Jersey, USA
Radiating needles of brown stevensite with a little calcite and quartz. The stevensite fluoresces...
SC671 – Stevensite from Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA
Radiating crystals of brown stevensite. Under longwave UV light it shows some light brown...
SC361 – Hyalite from Gallatin Co., Montana, USA
Green fluorescent hyalite on basalt matrix. The best fluorescence is under shortwave UV light,...
SC357 – Calcite from Malmberget, Sweden
Small plate of compact calcite crystals. Zoned yellow/green fluorescence under shortwave UV light,...