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Minerals exhibit photoluminescence by UV excitation

May exhibit different color depending on wavelength: long-UV and short-UV

• Adamite (Green-Yellowish green)
• Agate (Green-Yellowish green)
• Albite (Short-UV, Blue, Long-UV, White-Orange)
• Allophane (Short-UV, Blue)
• Alunite (White)
• Amber (Yellowish green)
• Analcime (Blue green-Green-Yellow)
• Andersonite (Yellow green)
• Anglesite (Orange)
• Anthophyllite (Red)
• Aphthitalite (Yellow)
• Apophyllite-(KF) (Yellow)
• Aragonite (Yellow-Green)
• Autunite (Yellow green)
• Axinite-(Mg)
• Axinite-(Mn) (Franklin, NJ only, Red)

• Baghdadite (Yellowish orange)
• Baratovite (Dark blue)
• Baryte (Bluish green-Yellow)
• Benitoite (Short-UV, Blue)
• Berlinite (Dark red)
• Beryl (Green, Some examples)
• β-Uranophane (Green)
• Bolivarite (Short-UV, Green)
• Boltwoodite (Green)
• Brianyoungite (Short-UV, Yellow, Long-UV, Bluish white)
• Brucite (Bluish white)
• Burkeite (Pale yellow)
• Bustamite (Red)

• Calcioancylite-(Ce) (Bluish gray)
• Calcite (Blue-Green-Yellow-Red)
• Calomel (Dark red)
• Carpathite (Blue)
• Celestine (Pale blue-Green-Yellow)
• Cerussite (Orange)
• Chalcedony (Green-Yellowish green, Some cases)
• Charlesite (Pale purple-Green)
• Chlorapatite
• Chondrodite (Orange)
• Clinoptilolite-K (Pale green)
• Colemanite (Yellow)
• Cookeite (Some examples, Pale yellow)
• Copal (Green)
• Corundum (Yellow-Red)
• Cristobalite (Greenish red)
• Crocoite (Dark brown)
• Cryolite (Pale blue)
• Cuprotungstite (Yellow)
• Cuspidine (Franklin, NJ, Yellow-Purple)

• Danburite (Blue)
• Datolite (Short-UV, Blue)
• Dawsonite (some examples, Short-UV, White)
• Diamond (Blue-Green-Yellow-Red)
• Diaspore (Pale yellow)
• Diopside (Short-UV, Blue-White)
• Dolomite (Blue-Yellow, Some examples)
• Dravite (Short-UV, Yellow-Orange)
• Dumortierite (Gray)
• Dypingite (Blue)

• Edenite (Short-UV, Blue green)
• Elbaite (Short-UV, Blue)

• Fluellite (Long-UV, Pale yellow)
• Fluoborite (Short-UV, Pale yellow)
• Fluorapatite (Orange)
• Fluorite (Blue, by Er)
• Fluorellestadite (Bluish white)
• Fluor-uvite (Short-UV, Yellow)
• Foshagite (Yellow)
• Fresnoite (Yellow)

• Gaylussite (Long-UV, Pale blue)
• Genthelvite (Green)
• Glauberite (Bluish gray)
• Grayite (Some examples, Short-UV, Yellow)
• Grossular (Rarely, Orange)
• Gypsum (Green, Yellow)
• Gyrolite (White)

• Haiweeite (Pale green)
• Halite (Red-Orange-Green)
• Hanksite (Yellow)
• Hedyphane (Pale yellow, Weak)
• Helvine (Dark red)
• Hemimorphite (Bluish white-Pale yellow)
• Hokkaidoite (Yellow-Blue)
• Howlite (Yellowish brown)
• Hyalite (Green-Yellowish green)
• Hydromagnesite (Short-UV, Green, Long-UV, Blue white)
• Hydroxylherderite (Short-UV, Yellow)
• Hydrozincite (Blue white-Pale yellow)

• Jennite (Short-UV, White, Some cases)
• Johnbaumite (Short-UV, Orange)

• Karibibite (Short-UV, Yellow)
• Kimuraite-(Y) (Purple)
• Kogarkoite (Short-UV, Pale blue, Long-UV, White)
• Kurchatovite (Long-UV, Purple)

• Laumontite (White)
• Laurionite (Short-UV, Yellow)
• Leadhillite (Dark yellow)
• Leucosphenite (Short-UV, Pale yellow)
• Liebigite (Green)

• Magnesite (Pale blue-Pale green)
• Malayaite (Short-UV, Yellowish green)
• Mangano-cummingtonite (Red)
• Margarite (Blue)
• Marialite (Yellow-Red)
• Meionite (Yellow-Red)
• Melanophlogite (Gray-White)
• Meta-autunite (Yellow green)
• Metauranocircite
• Metazeunerite (Yellow green)
• Meyerhofferite (Pale yellow)
• Microcline (Short-UV, Blue, Dark red, Pegmatite samples)
• Milarite (Short-UV, Bluish white)
• Mimetite (Orange)
• Monohydrocalcite (Green)
• Montebrasite (Pale yellow)
• Murakamiite (Long-UV, Purplish pink)

• Nahcolite (Pale blue-Pale yellow)
• Nasonite (Blue)
• Natrolite (Yellow-Orange)
• Natron (Blue)
• Nesquehonite (Green)
• Nifontovite (Long-UV, Purple)
• Norbergite (Short-UV, Yellow)
• Northupite (Long-UV, Pale yellow)

• Opal (Yellow green)
• Otavite (Red)

• Pectolite (Green-Orange-Pink)
• Pentahydroborite (Short-UV, Purple)
• Phlogopite (Yellow-Blue)
• Phosgenite (Yellow)
• Phosphuranylite (Orange)
• Picropharmacolite (Pale blue-Pale purple)
• Plombièrite, Plombierite (Yellow)
• Pollucite (Pale yellow, Rarely)
• Polylithionite (Short-UV, Bluish green-Purple)
• Powellite (Yellow)
• Prehnite (Pale blue-Yellow)
• Pretulite (Short-UV, Pale orange)
• Priceite (White)
• Pyromorphite (Yellow)
• Pyrophyllite (Long-UV, Yellow)

• Quartz (Yellow-Orange)

• Rosenhahnite (Yellowish green-Pink)

• Sabugalite (Yellow)
• Sassolite (Short-UV, Blue)
• Scheelite (Short-UV, Blue white, Pale yellow by Mo)
• Schoepite (Pale green)
• Schröckingerite, Schrockingerite (Green-Yellowish green)
• Scolecite (Some examples, Yellow)
• Simpsonite (Bluish white-Pale yellow)
• Slawsonite (Short-UV, Purple)
• Smithsonite (Pale green-Pale blue)
• Sodalite (Orange)
• Soddyite (Orange)
• Sphalerite (Orange)
• Spinel (Some examples, Red)
• Spodumene (Orange)
• Spurrite (Short-UV, Green)
• Stolzite (Orange-Yellow)
• Strontianite (Bluish green-Pale red)
• Suolunite (Short-UV, White)
• Szaibélyite, Szaibelyite (Yellowish brown)

• Talc (Some exmamples, Yellow-Orange)
• Terlinguaite (Yellow)
• Thaumasite (Long-UV, White)
• Thénardite (White)
• Titanite (Short-UV, Pale brown)
• Tobermorite (Pale yellow)
• Topaz (Some examples, Pale green-Yellow)
• Tremolite (Yellow-Orange)
• Tridymite (Short-UV, Dark red)
• Trilithionite (Short-UV, Bluish green-Purple)
• Trona (Blue-Pale yellow-Orange)
• Tyuyamunite (Yellowish green, Some examples)

• Ulexite (Pale yellow)
• Uralborite (Long-UV, Purple)
• Uranocircite (Green)
• Uranophane (Yellowish green, Crystals)
• Uranopilite (Yellowish green)
• Uvarovite (Red)

• Variscite (Long-UV, Green)

• Wavellite (Blue)
• Willemite (Yellow-Green)
• Witherite (Bluish white-Yellow)
• Wollastonite (Bluish green-Yellow)
• Wulfenite (Some examples, Yellow-Red)
• Wurtzite (Long-UV, Red)

• Xonotlite (Gray)

• Zektzerite (Short-UV, Blue, Long-UV, Blue)
• Zincite (Short-UV, Yellow-Green)
• Zippeite (Yellowish green)
• Zircon (Yellow-Yellowish green)
• Zoisite (Bluish white, Iwaki island)