Fluorescent Mineral Database

A new secret project! Trying to create a nice Fluorescent Mineral Database (FMDB), which would be searchable by mineral, locality, and luminescence properties. Also making it easy for people to contribute with their own specimens!

Contributed by: FMS Admin

Spooky albite

Photochromic scapolite

Scapolite from Russian Karelia

Scapolite: Colors can fool you!

Calcite, two step activation of Mn via Ce

Calcite on pyrite in septaria

Rhombohedral calcite group exhibiting organic fluorescence

Aragonite and calcite, Forrières, Liège, Belgium

Green hauyne and photochromic sodalite, Koksha valley, Afghanistan

Scheelite Crystals on Quartz from China

Fluorite from Riemvasmaak, South Africa

Tarbuttite from the Skorpion Mine, Namibia

Autunite from the Margnac II Mine, France

Autunite from the Himmelfahrt Mine, Saxony, Germany

Fluorescent Scheelite Crystals on Quartz from the Ore Mountains, Europe

Berzeliite from the Langban Mine, Sweden

Variety Alexandrite on Chrysoberyl from A Franqueira, Spain

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