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!

Albite from Konso, Ethiopia

Contributed by: FMS Admin
Date: Nov 14th, 2025
Locality: Konso, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples\' Region, Ethiopia (See on Mindat)

Description:
Albite crystal, fluorescent red under shortwave UV light.
Originally posted by groensteenfreterke on Nature’s Rainbow.

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

Summary of luminescence responses:

Albite (Mindat) (RRUFF)

  • Fluorescence under 275nm LED UV light: Red