Hydroxylherderite - Buckfield, Maine

Contributed by: Mark Cole
Date: Mar 16th, 2026
Locality: Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA (See on Mindat)

Description:
Fluorescent hydroxylherderite crystals on quartz and cookeite from the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine

Originally posted by Mark Cole on Nature's Rainbows in 2015.

Fluorescence under shortwave UV light.

Normal light.

Summary of luminescence responses:

Hydroxylherderite (Mindat) (RRUFF)

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