Fluorescent Minerals More From New Jersey This is very rare and unusual - A Mine Pearl found by Bob Winters ca.1990. Calcium Carbonate built up in an egg shape around a bit of ore that landed in a churning pool of calcium-rich water. These came from the 900 foot level of the Sterling Hill mine. The white concretion was sliced in half and polished. The piece is about 1.0 inch wide.

Below is an example of a very rare fluorescing zincite. It is from the Sterling Hill mine, Ogdensburg, NJ. This form of zincite fluoresces a pale white LW.

Below are a pair of blue-fluorescing sphalerites (called cleiophane by collectors) from the Franklin mine (the photo on the left was taken under SW UV, the one on the right was taken under LW). Most sphalerites fluoresce a soft orange LW and occasionally SW, but the occasional piece fluoresces blue and orange SW & LW and where the two colors overlap, it looks pink. These are really striking colors in person. The piece on the left has a pinkish color in daylight which is a clue that it might be a Sphalerite bearing stone. The piece on the right has really superb color.

Calcite, willemite and hydrozincite (fluoresces white or sky blue SW). Hydrozincite is a surface coating rather than a piece of the rock. Hydrozincite forms when water (hydro) moves through the cracks in the rock and dissolves zinc. This zinc material generally appears as a coating on rocks. This is from the Buckwheat dump, Franklin mine.	Here is an unusual piece. It is limestone that has been acid etched to expose two double boat hull shaped norbergite crystals, one with a octahedryl spinel crystal attached. This is from the Limecrest quarry, Sparta, NJ. The norbergite fluoresces bright orange-yellow SW.

Below is a great piece of rose colored Franklin rhodonite. It is nonfluorescent but has some willemite on it.

Thought you might like to see a tintype photo of some miners taken about the late 1880s. Note that they all have candles in their hats and carry a spare candle on their shirts. There unfortunately was no information about where the photo was taken.

Below are two Sterling Hill rarities. On the left is calcite covered with galena. It fluoresces orange-red SW. The piece on the right is an unusual Sterling Hill mineral - metallic loellingite. Under daylight, the whitish area is all metallic crystals and under SW UV, you can see a strange pinkish red-glowing calcite.

Below is an interesting and hard-to-find mineral - fluoborite in marble - from the Bodner quarry, Rudeville, New Jersey.

New Jersey Fluorescents, page 1

More New Jersey Fluorescents, page 2

New Jersey and Other US Fluorescents, page 4

Foreign Fluorescents, page 5

Fluorescent Links, books, etc, page 6

More Rare Fluorescents, page 7

Fluorescent Apatites, page 7a

Fluorescent Apatites, page 7b

Fluorescent Calcites, page 7c

Fluorescent Calcites, page 7d

More Rare Fluorescents, page 8

Fluorescent Minerals for Sale, page 9

Fluorescent Minerals for Sale, page 9a

Fluorescent Minerals for Sale, page 9b

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