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overthemoonminerals · 17 days

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Fluorite from Taraba State, Nigeria

This piece (along with everything else we post here) is completely natural and unpolished. The intense blue coloration you see in the picture is caused by daylight fluorescence. This fluorite changes color in the sun! It is dark purple in indoor lighting and turns a vibrant blue in sunlight.

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arockmaniac · 1 year

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Fluorescent mineral display at the 65th Annual Dallas Gem & Mineral Society Show. Long wave ultraviolet on the left, short wave on the right. Pic 1 shows both the long wave and short wave UV lights on. Pic 2 shows just the long wave. Pic 3 shows just the short wave. Pic 4 shows the rocks after all the lights have been turned off. They glow in the dark! Pic 5 shows what they look like under regular, ordinary, boring white light. Pic 6 shows seven rocks that are tenebrescent. Can you find them?

#Rocks #Gems #Minerals #Fluorescent #Fluorescent Minerals #Geology #Crystals #Ultraviolet #Short wave ultraviolet #Long wave ultraviolet #UV #UV Minerals #black light #Black Light Rocks #Cool Rocks

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flamefatalis · 2 years

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Some fluorescent minerals from the Franklin Museum were at the convention today!

#geology #a good chunk of these were willemite and calcite #fluorescent minerals

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spaceguy44 · 5 months

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My fluorescent (glowing) rock and radioactive materials collection that I've been building for about a year with my partner. Looks cooler IRL than what my phone camera can do. I've labelled everything with the color they glow as the text color.

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ilikeit-art · 1 year

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#gemstone #crystals #minerals #sodalite #agates #fluorescent stones #paparockzee

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oldearthminerals · 7 months

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Chalcopyrite with Fluorescent Calcite from Trepca Mine Complex, Kosovo. $45 plus shipping.

https://www.oldearthminerals.com/shop/p/chalcopyrite-with-fluorescent-calcite-and-chalcedony-3ww85

#chalcopyrite #fluorescentminerals #calcite #mineralspecimen #mineralporn #crystalporn #crystalhealing mineralsofig

#chalcopyrite #calcites #crystals #crystalhealing #minerals #mineralspecimens #mineralspecimen #quartz #mineral #fluorescence

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beeapartments · 7 months

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A few goodies I brought back from Santa Cruz today:

#prehnite #ruby #rainbow moonstone #fluorescent rock #maybe if I send a pic to the fluorescent rock group I joined they will have ideas #rocks #rock collection #minerals #mineral collection #they had some other interesting pieces but I already spent a bunch

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nmmrockshop · 2 years

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Them: “The Perfect Mineral Specimen Doesn’t Exist”

Me: “Oh Really”

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heartnosekid · 2 years

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fluorescent fluorite matrix with quartz cluster | source

#fluorite #crystals #rocks #stim #sfw #quartz #minerals #glow #fluorescent #purple #white #hands #glow in the dark #my gifs #postish

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dragoncrystals · 1 year

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₊˚✧ fluorite ✧˚ . . . did you know that the term fluorescence is derived from fluorite? when illuminated with UV light, fluorite has the ability to produce a bright blue glow. have you ever seen fluorescence in a crystal or mineral?

#crystals #fluorite #crystal witch #minerals #crystal #crystal healing #plant witch #plants #fluorescence #blue fluorite #rocks #rock facts

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asenathgems · 4 months

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Cerrusite

#minerals #aesthetic #crystals #fluorescent

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overthemoonminerals · 7 months

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Fluorite from the Naughty Gnome Pocket of the Diana Maria Mine in Weardale, England

This fluorite is daylight fluorescent, meaning it changes color in sunlight! It is a lovely deep green in indoor lighting and shows blue coloration in the sun ☀️

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arockmaniac · 4 months

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Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad & Happy Holidays to everyone! I posted this tree a couple of years ago, but decided to decorate it this year! Aragonite/cave calcite from "Santa" Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico, with some willemite & calcite sprinkles from Franklin, NJ. Shown under short wave ultraviolet and white light.

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reddpenn · 7 months

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Here is a potentially silly question: how do you feel about birthstones? Do you think they fit the months (by season or astrological sign)? Do you have other stones you'd rather see as birthstones?

Okay, so, birthstones make absolutely no sense.

I mean, look at this mess. We’re doing beryl and corundum twice! I get that they get Special Different Names for their Special Different Colors, but it's just lazy. And why are we giving some months cheap, common gemstones like garnet and amethyst while the poor June birthdays have to shell out tens of thousands of dollars for FREAKING ALEXANDRITE? That’s incredibly unfair! We should be picking birthstones that are all roughly the same price. And why do some months get multiple gemstones? I’ll tell you why: because nobody can agree on an official list and every attempt to standardize this thing has just added MORE birthstones to every month.

So obviously the answer is to standardize it again, by throwing out everything and starting over. Here are our goals:

Fair pricing. You should be paying roughly the same amount regardless of what month you were born in. We’re getting rid of those ridiculous outliers like diamond and alexandrite.

More customization potential! Nobody should be stuck with a stone they hate. We’re picking gemstones that come in multiple colors or varieties, so that everyone can choose a variant they like.

Wearability. Some birthstones are too fragile to be worn as jewelry. We need to replace them with stronger stuff.

No more duplicate gemstones. Every month gets a stone or family of stones with a unique chemical composition.

Now without further ado, I present to you:

The New And Improved List Of Birthstones With No Problems Or Flaws That Everyone Will Definitely Agree On And We Can Start Using Right Now Immediately

JANUARY: GARNET

I've got no problem with garnet. It's a fine, classic birthstone, so January can keep it. But I would like to see a little more garnet diversity. January birthdays shouldn’t be confined to just red. The garnet family of minerals contains a rainbow of different colors, like orange hessonite, green uvarovite, pink rhodolite, yellow grandite, and many more. They’re all garnet, so we should be wearing them all!

FEBRUARY: QUARTZ

The original birthstone of February was amethyst, which is… kinda boring. Super cheap and common and you only get one color? No, we can do better. February gets ALL the quartzes now. Keep wearing amethyst if you want, but also feel free to branch out into clear quartz, citrine, rose quartz, smoky quartz, rutilated quartz, tiger eye… actually, take all the agates too. If it’s quartz, it’s yours!

MARCH: SPODUMENE

March was originally aquamarine, but I’ll be giving all the beryls to May, so we need a different stone here. Let’s stick with that theme of pale pastels and go with spodumene. For an April birthday, bedeck yourself in green hiddenite, pink kunzite, or yellow triphane. Despite its subtle colors, your birthstone has some amazing fluorescence, with really cool pinks and oranges under a UV light.

APRIL: FELDSPAR

Diamond is too pricy for this list, so we’re replacing it with something less expensive and way more interesting. April will now be represented by the feldspar family. We’re talking labradorite, moonstone, amazonite, aventurine, and sunstone. While you don’t have much variety in color, your stones are full of shimmery schiller which glitters and shifts as it catches the light.

MAY: BERYL

May’s original birthstone was emerald, which is great and can stay, but we’re also adding its siblings! May is now represented by all beryls: Emerald, Aquamarine, Morganite, Bixbite, Heliodor, Goshenite, and whatever other varieties I’m forgetting to list. A bright and saturated rainbow of colors is represented here, so everyone born in May is sure to find something they like.

JUNE: ORGANIC GEMSTONES AND FOSSILS

It’s time to address the alexandrite in the room, and obviously we’re getting rid of alexandrite. A stone worth $15,000 to $70,000 a carat does not belong on the same list as friggin amethyst. Instead we’ll look at the other traditional June birthstone, pearl. The problem with pearl is that it’s a clear outlier in this list. An organic gemstone, by some definitions not even a mineral. Should we replace it? NO. We are OWNING it. All organic gemstones now belong to June. Pearl is joined here by jet, amber, coral, ivory, ammolite, petrified wood… in fact, June can have every fossil ever.

JULY: SPINEL

July was originally represented by ruby, which is a fine stone and won’t be kicked off the birthstone list - we’re just shuffling it down to September. Replacing ruby for July is spinel. (See, it’s funny because historically spinel has often been mistakenly identified as ruby! That's a little gemology humor for you.) Available in any hue you could possibly desire, spinel offers some nice color options to a month that previously only featured red. Of course if you want to keep wearing red, red spinel mimics ruby so well that you’ll barely notice the difference.

AUGUST: PERIDOT

Nope, we’re not changing this one. Peridot is the ideal gemstone and you ungrateful August whiners can die mad about it. HOW ABOUT YOU LEARN TO APPRECIATE PERFECTION

SEPTEMBER: CORUNDUM

Sapphire is a wonderful, classic stone and it deserves its spot on this list. But the corundum family has been separated for far too long, and we’re finally going to reunite them. Joining sapphire in September is its sister ruby. Between the pinks and reds of ruby and the many, many colors of sapphire, these two stones give September a nice variety of colors.

OCTOBER: TOURMALINE

Look, as gorgeous as opal is and as much as I love it, it is both way too pricy for our list and also TERRIBLE in jewelry. This stone is just too brittle to wear around from day to day and can be ruined just by getting it wet, which makes wearing your birthstone a huge hassle. We’ll kick opal out and hang on to October’s other traditional birthstone, tourmaline. Pink tourmaline may be classic, but this stone comes in plenty of other colors. Whether it’s brown dravite, watermelon elbaite, or the rare and beautiful blue indicolite, you can wear them all!

NOVEMBER: TOPAZ

November can keep topaz, but we’re not confining it to the color yellow. This stone comes in a huge variety of colors, and now they can ALL represent November. No further notes; it’s a nice, classic stone.

DECEMBER: ZIRCON

I dunno, I’ve had to come up with 12 of these, I’m burnt out. Sure, zircon, whatever.

“BUT WAIT,” you say. “Now instead of having a single color assigned to each month, almost every month is represented by almost every color, making it impossible to tell anyone’s birthstones apart and removing what made them special and recognizable as symbols!”

Well CLEARLY you didn’t read the title of this list.

#birthstones #talkin' bout rocks

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spaceguy44 · 8 months

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Stop saying my glowing rock/crystal collection is radioactive! They're not! That's a different collection of mine...

#rocks #crystals #minerals #harming crystals #radiation #fluorescent #fluorite

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npc-octopus · 1 year

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shoutout to green radioactive minerals fr

gotta be one of my favorite genders

#i fw fluorescant minerals too if anyone was wondering #my thoughts

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