Greyish-green prismatic spray of crystals of elpidite (green fluorescence), pale yellow tabular thomasclarkite, silver hexagonal molybdenite, tiny brown siderite, green prismatic aegirine, and sodalite (orange fluorescence), in white albite (pink fluorescence). A yellow arrow points...
A spherical colourless fluorite that fluoresces purple-blue under longwave UV. Orange fluorescence is likely sodalite. Ex Münchener Micromounters. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images (UV) and 60 images (white light). Click on the...
Greenish-grey zircons with black inclusions and tiny colourless crystals (sanidine?) sprinkled on terminations, and as most of the matrix. The sanidine fluoresces pink under shortwave UV. Associated with black “biotite” and orange fluorescing sodalite under...
Blue lazurite with grey sodalite (hackmanite) that fluoresces orange. Width 48mm. Check out the Fluorescent Mineral Reveal on YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbe_9ddRFj4
Pale green naujakasite with pink villiaumite, black aegirine and colourless sodalite that fluoresces orange. Ex Ole-Thorstein Ljøstad. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version....
Pale green naujakusite with black arfvedsonite. Colourless sodalite shows up as orange patches under UV. Tan patches unknown. Prismatic green crystals possibly aegirine? Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images...
Tiny blue jeremejevite with white sodalite, colourless prismatic topaz and colourless/grey sanidine. Hematite also on specimen. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A really difficult one to photograph. Transparent colourless sabinaite crystal (centre of photo) with white dawsonite and blue sodalite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Blue sodalite with intense orange fluorescence under Convoy UV torch.
Sodalite orange fluorscence, Ole-Thorstein Ljostad
Hackmanite Rough & Cut. Fluoresces orange.
