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News
NewsUV Waves vol. 55 num. 2-3 June 25th, 2025 Gentle Readers, Hot off the presses! The next issue of UV Waves is ready for your enlightenment. The plan was to cover all the fluorescent rocks from New Jersey, other than those from Franklin and Sterling Hill. But so...
Topaz from the Zapot pegmatite, Nevada, USA
A broken piece of a topaz crystal, bluish in daylight, with a surprisingly bright yellow fluorescence under longwave UV light. From: Zapot pegmatite, Gillis Range, Fitting Mining District, Mineral County, Nevada, USA.A miniature piece: 4 x 3 x 2 cm, 49 g.MinID:...
Willemite, Calcite & Dioptase from Gotala, Republic of the Congo
A streak of light green willemite crystal on a calcite matrix with a few, deep green, gemmy dioptase crystals as special guests. The willemite crystals are quite small, between 1 and 2 mm, but are all well formed, translucent, light green in color and there are scores...
Scheelite from Chenzhou, Hunan, China
Little cluster of well formed scheelite crystals. Dark colored in daylight, they fluoresce the typical bright blue under shortwave UV light and a quite nice orange/red under midwave UV light (a bit overexposed in the photo…). The blue shortwave fluorescence is...
Books
Books One may argue the second best way to study fluorescent minerals is via a well written book. Here is a list of books dedicated to fluorescent minerals and famous localities producing fluorescent minerals. Unfortunately, the list is not that long!General books on...
The Henkel Glossary of Fluorescent Minerals
The Henkel Glossary of Mineral Species Special issue of the Journal of the Fluorescent Mineral Society, volume 15 (1988-89)The Henkel Glossary of Fluorescent Minerals, edited by Dr. Earl Verbeek and Dr. Peter Modreski, was published as a 1988-89 as a special issue of...
31st Annual Ultraviolation 2021
Dennis Michaels (from our Fluorescent Minerals Facebook group) attended his first Ultraviolation show in Oct 2021. He took some amazing photos which really illustrate what this shindig is all about. Every rock is fluorescent. The room is filled with dealer and...
Educational Links
Educational Links [yoast-breadcrumb] For those interested in learning more about fluorescent minerals and the hobby of collecting them, below is a growing compilation of some of the most helpful sites. While there are lots of other great fluorescent mineral sites...
Common Fluorescent Minerals
Common Fluorescent Minerals Over 500 minerals have been discovered that exhibit some sort of fluorescence when exposed to ultra violet light. What follows, is a collection of some of the more common and/or well-known fluorescent minerals. Importantly, not all...