Princess Pat Mine
FLUORESCENT MINERAL SPECIMENS
 
 
  Here are a few fluorescent mineral specimens collected during a short visit to the Princess Pat Mine in early 2004.

Fluorescing specimens are shown exactly as they appear when illuminated by shortwave ultraviolet light.

To learn more about fluorescent minerals be sure to visit the website of the Fluorescent Mineral Society.

 

  
 
 

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Two small but excellent samples of scheelite. Top, under natural light; below under shortwave ultraviolet. Specimen width 50 mm.

 

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Desert 'caliche' (orange) and hyalite (green) glowing brilliantly under shortwave ultraviolet. Specimen width 150 mm.

 

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Calcite (reddish-orange) and hyalite (green) glowing under shortwave ultraviolet. Specimen width 100 mm.

 

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Exquisite 3-color fluorescent specimen shown under shortwave ultraviolet.
Key: 'caliche' (orange); scheelite (blue-white); and hyalite (green). Specimen width 60 mm.

 

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Calcite (red) and 'caliche' (yellow-orange) glowing under shortwave ultraviolet.
Specimen width 120 mm.
 

 

LUMINOUS MINERALS Photographs © Herb Yeates 2004

  

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