Fluorescent Minerals
Fluorescent minerals from the Tres Hermanas Mountains, Luna Co, NM.
This piece is calcite (white), aragonite (green), and caliche (orange).
Same specimen, white light.
This specimen contains chalcedony and aragonite; both fluoresce green in response to shortwave UV. Portions of the aragonite also fluoresce yellow-white, and are phosphorescent. The chalcedony is emdedded in the matrix, upper left.
Same specimen, white light. The clusters of aragonite crystals make these easy to spot in daylight, but not all of them have strong fluorescent response.
Orange caliche and a green that could be aragonite or also caliche.
Same specimen, white light.
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