Originally posted on Nature's Rainbows in 2017 by Chris Clemens. The Midwest Chapter of the Fluorescent Mineral Society (FMS) held its first annual meeting at the Ben E. Clement Mineral Museum in Marion, Kentucky, on Saturday, September 16th. This location was chosen...
Originally posted on Nature's Rainbows in 2017 by Chris Clemens. The promise of this year’s Super Diggg on April 29th was too tempting to resist- over six million pounds of Mill Site rock material, purported to contain copious amounts of rare fluorescent Parker Shaft...
Originally posted on Nature's Rainbows in 2018 by Chris Clemens. As a biologist, my interest in entomology predates my fascination with fluorescent minerals by decades, so it was only natural that when my wife Kristine and I found some monarch butterfly eggs last...
Originally posted on Nature's Rainbows in 2018 by Chris Clemens. …at least not in terms of fluorescence. As is the case with many fluorescent minerals, different specimens of the same mineral species can show tremendous variability in fluorescent response, even among...
Originally posted on Nature's Rainbows in 2018 by Chris Clemens. Approximately 30% of all diamonds show a fluorescent response under UV. In most cases, the fluorescence is brightest under long wave (365nm). The fluorescent response is activated by a complex interplay...
Originally posted on Nature's Rainbows in 2023 by Chris Clemens. Red trinitite is technically not a true mineral, because it was not formed through a geologic process. Rather, this brick-red colored glass-like material was created at 5:29 A.M. Mountain Time on July...
Originally posted on Nature's Rainbows in 2016 by Chris Clemens. Introduction: Uranyl-activated green fluorescence is one of the most common fluorescent responses seen under UV light. It occurs in a wide variety of minerals, generally due to one of two conditions: 1.)...
I’ve known more than one collector who has been enticed by the brilliant blue/green fluorescence of the mineral gaspeite. In fact, under the light of a Convoy S2+ long wave flashlight, this material can produce one of the brightest fluorescent responses of any...