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!

Halite from the Rudna Mine, Lubin, Poland

Contributed by: Simone Conti
minID: 5T0-ERG
Date: Dec 03rd, 2024
Locality: Lubin, Lubin County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland (See on Mindat)
Size: 7 x 4 x 7.5 x cm
Weight: 88.3 g

Description:
A very aesthetic cluster of halite crystals. Clear and translucent in daylight, it shows the brightest orange fluorescence under shortwave UV light.

Normal light.
Normal light.
Fluorescence under shortwave UV light.
Fluorescence under shortwave UV light.

Summary of luminescence responses:

Halite

  • Fluorescence under Shortwave (254nm Lamp/Mercury) UV light: Orange