Fluorescent Minerals by Species

Hydrozincite is secondary zinc mineral. Usually powdery white, it fluoresces bright light blue...

Idrialite is an organic mineral usually found in mercury mines. It shows a very bright green...

Kyanite often shows a dim red fluorescence under longwave UV light. This fluorescence is usually...

Nosean, a sodalite-group mineral. Bright orange fluorescence under longwave UV light.SC262 –...

OlmiiteSC1110 – Olmiite from N’Chwaning II Mine, South AfricaFluorescence under longwave UV...

Orthoclase.SC262 – Nosean on Sanidine and Orthoclase from In den Dellen quarries, Mendig,...

With scapolite here we will mean both marialite and meionite, since the two are often hard to...

Prehnite is seldom fluorescent; typically blue under longwave UV light.Fluorescence under longwave...

Sanidine. SC262 – Nosean on Sanidine and Orthoclase from In den Dellen quarries, Mendig,...

With scapolite here we will mean both marialite and meionite, since the two are often hard to...

Scheelite is one of the minerals with intrinsic fluorescence: the tungstate group in scheelite,...

Smithsonite, quite often fluorescent, multiple colors longwave or shortwave, but not too often...