Hydrozincite
Under Shortwave Ultraviolet (SW/UV) Hydrozincite is a super bright blue-white as seen in the photos. Hydrozincite specimen sits up nicely and displays fantastic under SW/UV. Photos presented here are under a 9 watt SW/UV lamp. Perfect size specimen for collectors with limited space and want something bright (remote and odd) to fill that spot. This specimen is from the Yellow Pine Mine, 900' Level, Goodsprings Mining District, Goodsprings, Clark County, Nevada. You must use a good quality SW/UV lamp to see the color. Specimen is natural and not altered in any way.
This is a very bright small cabinet size specimen.
Compare natural light photo of specimen on a US one dollar bill for scale.
Specimen HYD-03 is 2.65"x 1.60"x 1" and weighs 2.9 ounces.
Normally, I would be at the MGSCV Gem and Mineral show in March 1-3, 2024 (West Coast Glow)
in Newark, California. However, the Fluorescent Hall is not available this year. We will return with other fluorescent dealers and displays in 2025, see you then.
Active FMS members receive a 10% discount on show minerals and I will have the "Special Fluorescent's" flats with me.
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show
purchase total.
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I'm back from a 3 week collecting trip to Australia. New material will be posted soon. Met up with some distant relatives who kindly escorted me to several mines.
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NOTES ON ULTRAVIOLET:
The higher quality the Ultraviolet (UV) source, the better fluorescent minerals look. Critical factors include; filtration (Hoya glass vs Plastic filter or lens), lamp wattage, bulb composition, lamp construction, wave length and distance of lamp to specimen. For best results with any UV source, observe against a black, non-fluorescent, non-reflective background, in complete darkness with eyes adapted. To dark adapt your eye's, you must be in complete darkness for approximately seven (7) minutes. The photos here were taken using a Shortwave (SW), Midwave (MW) or Longwave (LW) lamps, metered and exposed to show fluorescent response to its best advantage. The more powerful the ultraviolet lamp, the brighter the fluorescent response. Flashlights and low cost ultraviolet lamps that purport to provide shortwave and/or longwave will not adequately fluoresce most minerals. Neither will very low wattage shortwave lamps. The filter is the most expensive component of a lamp and for a low price it will not be a quality filter - it will either permit too much visible light to pass through or not enough ultraviolet light. The second most expensive component is a high quality (UV) bulb. Cheap out on these two critical items and you will become disappointed with collecting fluorescent minerals. I will indicate which wavelength is appropriate for the particular specimen being offered at auction and wavelength (SW/MW,LW) used as well as the wattage of UV lamp used for photography. I use 2- 9 watt SW lamps to illuminate most specimens.
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