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Fluorescent exhibit at the Franklin Mineral Museum
World-class fluorescent exhibit
The Franklin Mineral Museum contains one of the world's finest
permanent exhibits of fluorescent minerals. The display is over sixty
feet long, eight feet high, and is lit with multiple high-power
short-wave ultraviolet lamps and includes some of the best samples of
willemite, calcite, hardystonite, esperite and other less common
fluorescent minerals found in the Franklin-Sterling Hill area.
For further information on the Franklin Mineral Museum, click here.
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View, looking
right, of the Franklin Mineral Museum fluorescent display. |
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View, looking
left, of the Franklin Mineral Museum fluorescent display. |
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Calcite (reddish-orange), willemite
(green), esperite (yellow), hardystonite (blue-violet) and barite (white).
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Very large (0.6 m) calcite
(reddish-orange) and willemite (green) specimen, surrounded by smaller samples of calcite,
willemite and esperite (yellow).
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Fine esperite specimen (yellow),
with samples of calcite (reddish-orange), willemite (green), and hardystonite
(blue-violet).
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Large (1 m) banded willemite (green)
and calcite (reddish-orange) specimen. Esperite (yellow) samples in middle upper and lower
left. Above left, a painting made with crushed fluorescent mineral grains.
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Fine massive esperite specimen.
Width 20 cm. Willemite (green) and calcite (reddish-orange) specimens in background.
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Daylight view of the world's largest
Franklin wollastonite specimen.
Width 0.8 m.
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Same specimen of wollastonite
(orange), with associated calcite (reddish-orange) and willemite (green), as seen lit with
short-wave ultraviolet light. Other specimens visible include esperite (yellow) lower
left. Wollastonite specimen width 0.8 m.
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For further information on the Franklin Mineral Museum, click here.
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