Fluorescent minerals usually look like any other rocks until you look at them under ultraviolet light. Then they glow with bright and beautiful colors. Some of the best specimens have several colors all in one piece. They're fairly easy to find out in the field. Here's a few stories and pictures to illustrate that fact. More will be added.

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Fluorescent Ontario, the collecting trip of a lifetime, Canada, 1993

Side trip to Ogdensburg, New Jersey

I am proud to have been the founding father of the Northern California Region of the Fluorescent Mineral Society. I was appointed as a Regional Vice-President of the FMS, serving from 1992 to 1998 when I moved to Southern California.

I live in Southern California working for the Mars Exploration Program at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab. In 2006 I became a Board Member at Large of the Fluorescent Mineral Society and attend the monthly meetings in Pasadena.