FMS - The Fluorescent Mineral Society

Display Group 50 - UV

Natural fluorescent rocks.Front row (L>R):Sodalite (orange)/Ussingite (green), Willemite (green)/Hardystonite (purple), Fluorite (blue)/Barite (beige) (View ~ 13" wide)Shown in UV light.

Display Group 50 - WL

Natural fluorescent rocks.Front row (L>R):Sodalite/Ussingite, Willemite/Hardystonite, Fluorite/Barite (View ~ 13" wide)Shown in white light.

Spalerite w/ Willemite -- Sterling Hill, NJ

Sphalerite with willemite from the Sterling Hill mine. Size: ~ 8" at widest.

Synthetic Fluorescents Collection #2

Synthetic fluorescents based on heated Group 2 sulfates. Host rocks: Marble, Barite, Picklejarite (Silicate based synthetic)

Wollastonite VUV Phosphorescence

Wollastonite phosphorescing from VUV. Top row: Franklin, Sterling Hill
Bottom row: Desert View,CA

FOV: ~6 inches wide

Minershop AgrelliteVlasovite

Agrellite (fl. pink) and Vlasovite (fl. yellow) and unknown mineral (fl. red SW, blue MW) on red (non fl.) Eudialyte.Specimen is ~3" at widest.

Rockyard PurpleRockXtals

Unknown Rock w/ Zeolite -- 6" wide

VUV Phosphorescence

185nm (VUV) light was used to "charge" strongly phosporescent minerals. Top>Bottom: Walstromite, Terlingua type Calcite, Afghanistan Hackmanite, Heated Barite, Heated Celestine, Synthetic Willemite.Photos were taken at 1 second intervals

Synthetic Willemite and Barium based mineral on Crystalline Rock -- Phos

Synthetic willemite and MB1 phosphorescing after exposure to UV light. (UV = LW + MW + SW)

Synthetic Willemite and Barium based mineral on Crystalline Rock -- UV

Synthetic willemite and synthetic MB1 fluorescing green and orange along with white fluorescence from unknown host rock.

Terlingua Calcite Spectra mono

Spectrum of Terligua type Calcite: LW, MW and SW

Franklin Scheelite

Franklin Scheelite

Synthetic Willemite and Barium based mineral on Crystalline Rock -- WL

Attempt at synthetic willemite and unknown barium based mineral.