Fluorescent Minerals

A) Minerals with typical, characteristic, and diagnostic fluorescence with UV light in hand specimen:

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Light blue to bluish-white (short wave): Scheelite

White-cream, yellow to golden (short wave): Powellite

Orange, yellow and reddish-orange (long wave) and intense green phosphorescence: Wurtzite

Yellow (long + short wave): Phosgenite

Intense green (short wave) (may be white to yellowish), intense green phosphorescence: Willemite

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YELLOW COLORS:

Yellow, orange and pink: Barite.

Yellow (short wave) or creamy white to orange (short wave): Cerussite.

Yellow to blue-white: Criolite.

Yellow or orange (long and short wave): Anglesite

Yellow to orange: Apatite

Yellow, orange and blue: Sphalerite

Yellow in various shades: Monazite.

Yellow (long wave): Periclase.

Butter-yellow (long wave): Pyrophyllite.

Yellow or orange (short + long wave): Pyromorphite

Yellow (long wave): Realgar.

Light lemon yellow or greenish yellow (short wave): Talc

Dark yellow to orange (short wave) and dark orange to red (long wave): Wulfenite.

Yellow in various shades (short wave): Calcite.

Yellow greenish, various shades: fluorapophyllite-(K)

 

BLUE COLORS:

Blue-violet and other colors (long wave) and dark red (short wave): Fluorite.

Light blue (short + long wave): Whiterite

Pale blue to medium blue, various shades, (short wave): Calcite.

Blue (long wave, short wave): Fluorapophyllite-(K)

 

ORANGE COLORS:

Light orange (long wave): Enargite.

 

PINK COLORS:

Pink (short wave) and pale yellow-gray to pale green (long wave): Smithsonite.

Deep pink (long wave) and white with a green tint (short wave): Aragonite.

Pink, can range from pale to intense, and can be a deep “amber-red” (short + long wave): Calcite.

 

GREEN COLORS:

Very pale green (long wave): Ambligonite.

Bright green (short wave) and pale pink (long wave): Hemimorphite.

Pale green to pale blue: Magnesite.

Pale green, discreet, barely pronounced, (short wave): Calcite.

Citrus green (short wave) and pale green (long wave): Opal with uranium.

Green (long wave, short wave): Fluorapophyllite

 

RED COLORS:

Red to orange-red: Corundum.

Violet-blue and purple (short wave): Feldspar.

 

WHITE:

White (long wave, short wave): Fluorapophyllite.

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