{"id":1172,"date":"2010-08-26T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2026-01-14T06:25:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:25:55","slug":"the-long-and-short-of-our-fluorescent-mineral-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/2010\/08\/26\/the-long-and-short-of-our-fluorescent-mineral-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long and Short of Our Fluorescent Mineral Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Next month, we’ll be doing some rock hounding in Iron County, Utah. When we were there last year, we spent just a couple hours at some mine dumps west of Cedar City and found some great specimens…several of these turned out to be fluorescent under a standard black light (long wave UV). Since I really want to track down some more of these awesome rocks, I ordered a couple portable UV lamps<\/a> to bring with us. The first one arrived a few days ago–a 4 watt short wave UV lamp. I hadn’t seen any of our collection under short wave UV yet, so I got busy shining it on everything we had. I was excited to see that this lamp nearly doubled the number of fluorescents we have–and some of them are stunning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A four watt lamp is very low power, but it’s enough to examine things (and was all I could afford for the time being). I won’t be able to stalk around after dark and shine it on a massive hill of mine tailings and see anything, but it works well enough that I should be able to throw a black tarp over myself and get in close to see if anything lights up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the photos of our current fluorescent collection. It contains rocks from the Comstock Mine Dump, Iron County, UT; Chalcedony from Brian Head, UT; Rocks from north of La Madera, NM; Petrified Wood from Hurricane Mesa, UT; and some small, bright red specimens from south of Cleator, AZ. Click to view larger versions of the images (the larger ones are better).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Short Wave Ultraviolet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Next month, we’ll be doing some rock hounding in Iron County, Utah. When we were there last year, we spent just a couple hours at some mine dumps west of Cedar City and found some great specimens…several of these turned out to be fluorescent under a standard black light (long wave UV). Since I really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[63,67,62,66,65],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rocks-and-minerals","tag-minerals","tag-rock-hounding","tag-rocks","tag-ultraviolet","tag-uv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}