Fluorescent Museum page 11

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World Minerals For Sale

The minerals can be purchased using personal checks, money orders, and Paypal. My address is Stuart Schneider, P.O. Box 64, Teaneck, NJ 07666 and my Paypal name and email address is stuarts1031@ erols.com (no spaces). Postage, handling, delivery confirmation, and insurance (if you want it) will be added to your order once the weight is figured. Let me know where you live so I can figure postage. I mail using the US Postal Service. Email me to reserve the item numbers that you want.

Terms: You can return any item to me within 10 days for any reason. If I misdescribed it, I will refund your postage both ways. If you are dissatisfied, you pay postage both ways. All photos are taken under daylight and Short Wave Ultraviolet (I use a new Super Bright brand light). If your light is more than a few years old, the item may look bluer than it looks here.

Rare benitoite crystals on naturalite from the Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California (now closed to most). Benitoite fluoresces blue SW. It weighs 2.3 oz. and is 2.0 x 107 x 1.5 inches. $250.00, item #132


Loads of shiny graphite crystals from the Franklin quarry, Franklin, Sussex County, NJ. It weighs 5.9 oz. and is 3.5 x 2.0 x 1.7 inches. $18.00, item #3805	Hydrozinite from Goodsprings, Clark County, Nevada. It fluoresces bright pale blue SW. It weighs 1.3 oz. and is 2.3 x 1.5 x 1.0 inches. $24.00, #39


Double Scheelite crystals from Xuebao Ding Ping Wu, Sichuan Province, China. Scheelite fluoresces bright pale blue SW. It weighs 9.8 oz. and is 2.0 x 2.0 x 1.5 inches. $80.00, item #735	Glistening, crystalline NF sphalerite from the Limecrest quarry, Sparta, Sussex County, NJ. Amazing that just a few miles from Franklin, a super sphalerite was found years ago and it doesn't fluoresce. It weighs 2.9 oz. and is 1.6 x 1.6 x 1.0 inches. $12.00, item #2063

Rare, late 1940s model V43 Short Wave Mineralight made by Ultra-Violet Products, Los Angeles, CA. It weighs 7.0 lb. and is 11.5 inches tall. It would run off a 6 volt battery and the wires and connecting tabs are present. Never tried it, so I am not sure it will work. Nice display item, illustrated in my 1st book. $35.00, item #V43

Rich chlorophane (varietal name for green-fluorescing, thermoluminescent fluorite) xtls & mid-wave fluorapatite with sphalerite from the Taylor Road area, Franklin, Sussex County, NJ. Chlorophane fluoresces green-blue SW & LW and has a long phosphorescence, fluorapatite fluoresces orange MW & SW, and sphalerite fluoresces blue & orange LW. It weighs 3 lb. 12.5 oz. and is 4.7 x 4.0 x 3.5 inches. $32.00, item #1803

Rare hausmannite on calcite from Jakobsberg, Norway. The calcite fluoresces orange SW. It weighs 0.3 oz. and is 1.1 x 0.8 x 0.5 inches. $20.00, item #2090


Yellow scapolite crystal faceted as an emerald cut gem from Merelani Hills (Mererani), Umba Valley, Lelatema Mts., Arusha Region, Tanzania. Clarity IF (much cleaner than it looks in the photo). The scapolite fluoresces red SW. It is 7.0 mm x 13.0 mm - about 6.7 carats. $30.00, item #scapoliteemerald	Yellow scapolite crystal faceted as an oval cut gem from Merelani Hills (Mererani), Umba Valley, Lelatema Mts., Arusha Region, Tanzania. Clarity IF. The scapolite fluoresces red SW. It is 7.5 mm x 9.0 mm - about 4 carats. $38.00, item #scapolitepear