Fluorescent Minerals

Albite: FL red SW [C]

Anorthite: FL pale yellow SW; rare, associated with corundum [FM]

Aragonite: FL, PH white/”cream” LW (FL green SW); [W]

Axinite-(Mn): FL orange-red to red SW, PH very weak [AC,V]

Barite: FL bright “cream” SW (FL yellow SW, MW, LW, can also PH) [O,C,V]

Barylite: FL violet SW, best seen under iron arc; rare [AC] {FO}

Bassanite: FL, PH violet SW; rare. [V] {SHO}

Bianchite: FL blue-white SW, weak PH

Bustamite: FL cherry red LW. [C, AC]

Cahnite: FL, PH “cream” SW. [V] {FO}

Calcite: typically FL bright orange-red SW with brief red-orange PH (also FL white, “cream,” yellow, orange, green, red, cherry red, blue, violet; can change FL with UV wavelength; often PH). [all assemblages]

Canavesite: FL, PH violet LW; rare [V] {SHO}

Celestine: FL, PH “cream” LW (FL violet SW) [V]

Cerussite: FL yellow LW [W]

Chabazite-Ca: FL green SW [V]

Charlesite: FL pale blue SW, usually coated with cream-FL gypsum [AC] {FO}

Chondrodite: FL yellow to orange-yellow to yellow-orange SW [FM]

Chrysotile [Clinochrysotile]

Clinohedrite: FL, PH bright orange SW [V] {FO}

Clinohedrite: FL, PH bright orange SW [V] {FO}

Corundum: FL cherry-red LW [FM]

Cuspidine: FL bright orange-yellow SW with brief orange-red PH; MW FL has violet tint. [AC] {FO}

Datolite: FL “cream” SW [AC,V] {FO}

Diopside: FL blue SW, FL pale yellow MW, LW [FM]

Dolomite: FL, PH red SW (in “crazy calcite”) [O]

Dundasite: FL pale yellow SW, MW, LW; rare [W] {SHO}

Dypingite: FL, PH blue SW, MW, LW [V]

Epsomite: FL “cream” LW, violet MW [W]

Esperite: FL bright lemon-yellow SW, weak PH [C] {FO}

Fluoborite: FL “cream” SW [FM, V]

Fluorapatite: FL bright to weak orange, “peach” SW [O,C], FL blue MW [FM]

Fluorapophyllite-(K): FL, PH weak white SW [V]

Fluorite: typically FL, PH blue-green SW, MW, LW (can FL, PH white, pale yellow, greenish-yellow, green, violet-blue, blue-violet). [most assemblages]

Fluor-uvite: FL orange-yellow SW [FM]

Genthelvite: FL green LW, SW, MW, (rarely FL yellow to orange MW), [C,V]

Gerstmannite: FL weak olive green BL (SHO)

Greenockite: FL cherry-red LW; rare [W] {FO}

Grossular:  FL cherry-red LW; very rare [AC] {FO}

Guerinite: FL, PH pale yellow SW, MW, LW; rare [W] {SHO}

Gypsum: FL, PH white, pale yellow, blue SW, MW, LW [V,W]

Hardystonite: FL violet to violet-blue SW, MW, LW [C] {FO}

Hedyphane: FL “tan,” “cream” SW, rarely bright orange SW [V] {FO}

Hemimorphite: FL, PH white to pale yellow SW, MW, LW, rarely FL green, blue [W]

Hexahydrite: FL, PH white SW, MW, LW [W] {SH}

Hodgkinsonite:  FL cherry-red MW/LW [V]

Humite: FL pale yellow SW; rare [FM]

Hydrotalcite: FL “cream” LW; rare [V] {FO}

Hydroxyapophyllite-(K): FL, PH weak white SW; rare [V] {FO}

Hydrozincite: FL bright blue SW (can PH pale yellow, also FL yellow MW, LW) [W]

Johannsenite: FL orange BL  [O]

Johnbaumite: FL bright to weak orange SW [C, V]

Junitoite: FL pale yellow LW; rare [V] {FO}

Magnesiohornblende: FL greenish-blue SW [FM]

Margarite: FL weak white (“gray”) SW, MW, LW [FM]

Margarosanite: FL bright blue, red SW; red, orange MW; weak red, orange LW [AC] {FO}

Marialite: FL orange SW, pink LW; rare [FM]

Mcallisterite: FL “cream” SW [W] {SHO}

Meionite: FL pinkish red, orange-yellow SW, MW; FL orange-yellow LW [FM,C]

Meta-ankoleite: FL green SW; rare [V] {SHO}

Metalodèvite: FL green SW, rare [V] {SHO}

Microcline: FL blue, red SW [C]

Minehillite: FL violet-blue MW, weak violet SW, weak pale yellow LW [AC] {FO}

Monohydrocalcite: FL green SW, PH white [W] {SHO}

Nasonite: FL pale yellow SW, MW [AC] {FO}

Newberyite: FL “cream” SW, rare [W] {SHO}

Norbergite: FL bright to weak yellow SW, less bright MW [FM]

Opal: FL green SW [FM,O,C]

Pargasite: FL greenish-blue SW [FM]

Pectolite: FL, PH orange SW, less bright MW [AC] {FO}

Pharmacolite: FL, PH white SW, MW, LW; rare [W] {SHO}

Phlogopite: FL yellow SW [FM]

Picropharmacolite: FL, PH white LW, rare [W] {SHO}

Powellite: FL yellow SW, MW [C,W]

Prehnite: FL variable orangeish pink SW [AC] {FO}

Pyromorphite: FL weak orange MW [W]

Quartz: FL yellow, pale orange SW, MW; FL green SW [V]

Rhodonite: FL weak deep red SW, very rare [V] {FO}

Roeblingite: FL red SW with brief red-orange PH [AC] {FO}

Samfowlerite: FL weak red SW; rare [V] {FO}

Scheelite: FL orange-yellow, pale yellow SW, MW, (blue SW) [C,V,FM]

Smithsonite: FL, PH pale yellow SW, MW, LW; rare [V,W]

Sphalerite: FL, PH orange, blue, orange-yellow, yellow-orange, green LW, MW, SW [O, C, V]

Spinel: FL cherry red LW [FM]

Starkeyite: FL, PH white SW, MW, LW, rare [W] {SHO}

Strontianite: FL violet SW; rare [V] {FO}

Talc: FL yellow SW, MW, LW [V,O]

Thomsonite-Ca: FL pale yellow SW; rare [AC] {FO}

Tilasite: FL yellow SW; rare [V] {SHO}

Titanite: FL yellow-orange SW [FM]

Tremolite: FL blue SW (yellow LW) [FM]

Turneaureite: FL bright orange SW [C] {FO}

Uranospinite: FL green SW; rare [W] {SHO}

Willemite: typically FL bright yellowish green SW, with occasional vivid PH; also can FL green MW, LW.  More rarely FL, PH yellow, greenish yellow, orange-yellow, and (!) pale blue. [O, C, AC, V, W]

Wollastonite: FL bright to moderate orange, yellow-orange, orange-yellow, yellow, best under SW; PH is often “redder” than FL, cores of some grains FL weak green. [C] [AC]

Xonotlite: FL, PH violet SW, MW, LW [AC] {FO}

Zincite: FL yellow LW, MW, SW [O,V]

Zircon: FL orange SW, MW [C, FM]

Znucalite: FL green SW, MW [W] {SHO}