37 new fluorescent minerals to the Worldwide showcase

Today I have added 37 new specimens to the Worldwide Showcase Page of my website.  A description of some of the larger batches is provided below.

A) Marialite from Afghanistan – I was recently able to obtain a nice batch of yellow fluorescing marialite crystal specimens from Afghanistan.  Along with the yellow fluorescing marialite can be found sky blue fluorescing diopside and in some specimens a red fluorescing calcite.

B) Multi-colored specimens from Greenland – This batch contains some specimens rich in ussingite with associated minerals tugtupite, sodalite, analcime, polylithionite as well as chkalovite. 

C) Cerussite from Morocco – This batch contains the typical tan colored cerussite crystals with associated barite and galena on matrix.  Some cerussite specimens from Morocco fluoresce best under longwave ultraviolet light while others fluoresce best under midrange ultraviolet light.

D) Calcite and Dolomite from Austria – This batch contains interesting patterns of secondary calcite within a dolomite matrix.  The collector of these specimens calls them “Network Calcites”.  The material was found at an outcropping in Salzburg, Austria.  The calcite fluoresces a bright white in both shortwave and longwave ultraviolet light, with some of the calcite fluorescing red under shortwave ultraviolet light.  The white fluorescing calcite exhibits sustained luminescence.