Fluorescent Rocks

Details on my small collection of fluorescent rocks.

Posted Jan 2, 2020 Updated May 18, 2024

By Carson Davis

2 min read

This is an unfinished post that will receive additional content and editing in the future.

I’ll be adding details about the minerals in each rock, their localities, and add additional rocks from my collection. However, for now you can look at the pretty pictures.

Reminder that you can click on the photos to see them full size..

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Here are some recent acquisitions for which I have good photos and descriptions.

Hydrozincite (FL Blue SW), Calcite (FL Red SW)
4.6” x 4.3” x 1.9”, 40oz
Sterling Hill Mine
Sussex County, New Jersey
$56.25, from James Horste, 8/9/24

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This is probably my nicest white light specimen. If you enlarge the photos, you can see the golden cubes of pyrite and purple fluorite emerging from a forest of white quartz crystals.

Sphalerite (FL Orange, LW), Coating on Quartz Crystals (FL White SW, MW, LW), Fluorite (FL Violet LW), Pyrite (NF)
5.4” x 2.7” x 1.2”, 13.5oz
Sweet Home Mine, Detroit City Portal, 21-01 Pocket
Park County, Colorado
$75, from James Horste, 8/9/24

Willemite, Fluorite

Eucryptite

On the left:

Willemite (FL White, Green SW, Orange, MW, Phosphorescent), Fluorite (FL Blue, SW, MW, LW)
3.4” x 2.5” x 1.7”, 7oz
Red Cloud Mine
La Paz County, Arizona
$26.25, from James Horste, 8/9/24

On the right:

Eucryptite (FL Red SW)
2” x 1.1” x 0.7”, 1oz
Londonderry Li deposit
Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia
$26.25, from James Horste, 8/9/24

These were my very first fluorescent rocks, generously gifted to me by Steve Caldwell. You can see several Franklin pieces with Willemite and Calcite, along with a Fluorite and calcite piece from I think the Purple passion mine in Arizona, as well as a crystal of Fluorite.