The fluorescence is so powerful it even vibrantly glows under 365nm long wave in daylight... crazy!

Just had to share this! Gorgeous piece of pink mordenite on stillbite with phosphorescent calcite inclusions

Would like to use a fluorescent cut stone in the center. Anyone have any ideas what would be nice and not too expensive as the raw mineral? Not sure if you can even facet these. I did watch a program about a stone in CA which is like a diamond but is fluorescent. However it's very dangerous and illegal to find now a days.

Olmiite crystals showing a very vibrant red fluorescence under LW UV. Second photo under normal white light

I was lucky enough to swipe this lovely little piece of miserite a while back. Originally labeled as just Miserite in Wollastonite, there is definitely a bit more going on. I was able to determine the MW blue and violet colored mineral to be apatite, and the red to be calcite. There are some black needle crystals that don't fluoresce as well, which could be aegerine or the more interesting straczekite, but I have no way to determine that.

I love the contract between the SW and MW response of this specimen, and the explosion of color you get when combining them.

Please help me find a good and reasonably priced short wave flashlight

I have the dark beam 365nm & 395nm dual light but I’m really trying to find a light that can make some of my rocks just pop!

TIA!!!

This is a specimen that was part of a large old collection I bought some time ago. It had no label at all. After a lot of research, the only thing I can imagine this being is molybdoscheelite, aka molybdenum-rich scheelite. I tried to find a possible locality for this specimen, but came up short. I couldn't find any that resembled this piece closely. I tried to get some closeup short, but I simply don't have the setup for it.

Let me know if you think this could be something else, or if you agree, or where this could be from.

It looks like yellow fluorite but it has so many crazy inclusions and it uvs bright white AND its super phosphorescent. Any ideas?

An outstanding collection and professional display of Peruvian minerals

Shown (L-R): LW, MW, SW, Natural light
From: El Hammam Mine, Morocco

Incredible ghostly UV reaction on a specimen of El Tule Fluorite

This image is a trichrome of NIR fluorescence excited by 365 nm LEDs. The four specimens from left to right are ruby and kyanite, ruby in fuchsite, amazonite, and labradorite "rainbow moonstone." The component images for the red, green, and blue channels were all excited at 365 nm but different combinations of absorptive glass filters were used for each color channel to isolate a specific band in the near-infrared. The blue, green, and red channels were filtered by R72 equivalent + ZWB1, RG850 equivalent + KG3 equivalent, and RG1000 equivalent, respectively. As such, bluer false colors correspond to shorter emission wavelengths and yellower false colors correspond to longer wavelengths. The camera was a full spectrum modified Canon EOS M. For more details on the trichrome process visit https://www.ultravioletphotography.com/content/index.php?/topic/6639-uv-vis-nir-and-nir-trichrome-tricolour-images-and-software/#comment-72186

Visited and was impressed by their SW UV display. Here’s what’s on show:

1.  Scheelite — Val-d’Or, Quebec   
2.  Zincite in Calcite — Franklin, NJ   
3.  Fluorite — Durham, England   
4.  Scapolite (Wernerite) — Otter Lake, Quebec  
5.  Willemite — Franklin, NJ   
6.  Fluorite & Calcite — Sainte-Ursule, Quebec   
7.  Hackmanite — Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec   
8.  Aragonite — Sicily, Italy  
9.  Adamite — Mapimí, Durango, Mexico   
10. Willemite — Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec   
11. Chabazite — Cross Loop, Chelsea, Quebec

One of my coolest minerals purchased in Tucson this year.

~15 inches x 7 inches x 4 inches

9 inches x 8 x 4
~20lbs