Ultraviolet Light and Fluorescent Minerals: Understanding, Collecting and Displaying Fluorescent Minerals

- By Tom S. Warren, Richard C. Bostwick, S. Gleason, and E. R. Verbeek, 209 pages, 8 1/2 X 5 1/2 size, illustrated, soft cover. Subtitled Understanding, Collecting, and Displaying Fluorescent Minerals, this book is intended to complement, rather than duplicate, other recent texts on mineral fluorescence. It differs from them chiefly in offering information not only on the fluorescent minerals themselves, but also on the nature of ultraviolet light, the lamps used to produce it, as well as useful techniques for collecting, learning about, and displaying fluorescent minerals. The agents that cause minerals to fluoresce, and those that act to prevent it, are explained as well. Some of this information has never before been presented in a non-technical fashion, and thus will be of interest not only to beginning hobbyists, but also to the more advanced collectors. Thirty one outstanding color plates, illustrating fluorescent minerals from worldwide localities, are included in this extremely interesting and informative book. Published by Tom S. Warren, Ultra-Violet Products, Inc., San Gabriel, CA, 1995.

Fluorescence - Gems & Minerals Under Ultraviolet Light

- By Manuel Robbins, 374 pages, 9 1/4 X 6 1/4" size, hard cover, illustrated with numerous line drawings and black & white photos, plus 24 color photos illustrating both fluorescent minerals and gemstones. In this second book covering fluorescent gems and minerals, the author offers excellent suggestions on how and where to find fluorescent specimens. Properties of known fluorescent minerals are described in detail. All major locations where fluorescent minerals are found, are documented in detail. Entire chapters are devoted to several of the best known fluorescent minerals including Scheelite, Apatite, Fluorite, Willemite, Sodalite, and many others. Jewelers, lapidaries, and gem collectors will find the information on gemstone fluorescence of particular interest. Published by Geoscience Press, Inc., Tucson, AZ, 1994.

The Collector's Book of Fluorescent Minerals

- By M.A. Robbins, 289 pages, 6 X 9" size, illustrated, cloth binding. This very comprehensive work contains a wide scope of information covering all known fluorescent minerals, localities where they have been found, guidelines on using UV equipment, and aids to identification. Extensive color tables and photographs are included. Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., NY, 1983.

 

 

Fluorescense and Luminescence in Minerals

- Edited by Wendell Wilson, 80 pages, 8 1/2 X 11" size, soft cover, illustrated with several color photographs of fluorescent minerals under both shortwave and longwave ultraviolet, plus many line drawings. This issue of the "Mineralogical Record" magazine features a 15 page article covering luminescence in minerals. The authors describe luminescence in general as the non-thermal emission of visible light by a substance. The focus of the article, as luminescence pertains to mineralogy, is the phenomenon known as photoluminescence, or fluorescence, demonstrated by various minerals when exposed to different wavelengths in the ultraviolet spectrum. This excellent article explains everything in terms which will enable the beginner to understand why minerals fluoresce. Those who have a solid scientific background in the study of luminescence in minerals will, no doubt, also be enlightened by the authors' in-depth presentation of their research into this phenomenon. Several classic worldwide localities for fluorescent minreals are also described. The second feature in this magazine is a 10 page summaryof the combined FM-MSA-TGMS-FMS Symposium covering fluorescence and luminescence in minerals, held at the February 1996 Tucson show. Fourteen abstracts covering a wide range of special topics dealing with the fluorescence and luminescence of minerals are outlined for the reader, and additional color photos of fluorescent mineral specimens are featured. Two articles covering non-fluorescent mineral subjects are included: "The Billie Mine in Death Valley, California", and "The Minerals of the Seravessa Marble, Tuscany, Italy". This magazine was published by the "Mineralogical Record, Inc., Tucson, AZ, as Volume 27, No. 1.

Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals, by Annibale Mottana, Rodolfo Crespi & Guiseppe Liborio, 1977, ISBN 0-671-24417-5

Nature's Hidden Rainbows - Fluorescent Minerals of Franklin, NJ, by Robert Jones, Jr., 1964, Published by Ultraviolet Products Inc.

The Henkel Glossary of Fluorescent Minerals, Journal of the Fluorescent Mineral Society - Special Issue Vol. 15 1988-89