A broken piece of a topaz crystal, bluish in daylight, with a surprisingly bright yellow fluorescence under longwave UV light. From: Zapot pegmatite, Gillis Range, Fitting Mining District, Mineral County, Nevada, USA.A miniature piece: 4 x 3 x 2 cm, 49 g.MinID:...
A streak of light green willemite crystal on a calcite matrix with a few, deep green, gemmy dioptase crystals as special guests. The willemite crystals are quite small, between 1 and 2 mm, but are all well formed, translucent, light green in color and there are scores...
Little cluster of well formed scheelite crystals. Dark colored in daylight, they fluoresce the typical bright blue under shortwave UV light and a quite nice orange/red under midwave UV light (a bit overexposed in the photo…). The blue shortwave fluorescence is...
Table of Contents Indiana’s Answer to the Subway Garnet by Chris Clemens 1–5 Tucson 2024: Shows, Prospecting & More by Brian Walko 6–17 Fuzzy Calcite from Polino, Italy by Simone Conti, Marco Costanzi, Michele Lustrino 18–21 History and Nature of the “Cava...
Table of Contents Quantum States of the FMS: President’s Report by Philip S. Neuhoff 1–2 Treasurer’s Report C.Y. 2023 by Andrew Silver 3 Eye Candy from Jon Allred by Jon Allred; editor’s note by Howie Green 3–7 From the Editor: The Membership Crisis—An Op-Ed by Howie...
Table of Contents The Landelies Quarry: The Limestones of the River La Sambre by Raph Mydlak 1–6 Fluorescent Petroglyphs in Southern Arizona by Dan and Lorena Moore 7–8 Whetting Your Witherite by Howie Green 8 W Is for Witherite by Simone Conti 9–13 Witherite from...
Table of Contents Editor’s Note: The Apatite Supergroup Photo Gallery by Howie Green 1 Fluorapatite, Calcite, and Chalcedony from La Celia, Spain by Daniel C. Montero 2 Pyromorphite Altering to Plumbogummite at Daoping Mine by Howie Green 2 Fluorapatite on Hematite...
Books One may argue the second best way to study fluorescent minerals is via a well written book. Here is a list of books dedicated to fluorescent minerals and famous localities producing fluorescent minerals. Unfortunately, the list is not that long!General books on...
The Henkel Glossary of Mineral Species Special issue of the Journal of the Fluorescent Mineral Society, volume 15 (1988-89)The Henkel Glossary of Fluorescent Minerals, edited by Dr. Earl Verbeek and Dr. Peter Modreski, was published as a 1988-89 as a special issue of...
Dennis Michaels (from our Fluorescent Minerals Facebook group) attended his first Ultraviolation show in Oct 2021. He took some amazing photos which really illustrate what this shindig is all about. Every rock is fluorescent. The room is filled with dealer and...