Fluorescent Minerals by Species

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...

Sorensenite, rare beryllium mineral from Greenland.SC1210 – Sorensenite from the Ilímaussaq...

Sphalerite -- fluorescent almost any color, most often under longwave UV light. Considering here...

Stevensite is not a particularly common, or known, fluorescent mineral. To be honest, its...

Tremolite. SC301 – Anthophyllite, Clino-suenoite, and Tremolite from the International Talc...

Tugtupite: typically bright red fluorescence under shortwave, orange under longwave. Only in some...

TurneaureiteSC1238 – Turneaureite from the Franklin Mine, NJ, USAFluorescence under shortwave UV...

Rhodochrosite is not a commonly fluorescent mineral. Chemically and structurally, rhodochrosite is...

Vitusite-(Ce) a rare mineral. Fluorescent violet under shortwave UV light.Fluorescence under...