[Rockhounds] Yooperlite

[Doug Bank]

I’ve got one. It is pretty neat if you have a good long wave light. It is a boring gray beach rock if you don’t. I’m not sure I would drive all the way to the UP to collect them, but if I was in the neighborhood, I would give it a try. Heck, I would try any rocky beach at night, but most of them are “closed”. Sigh. 

Doug 

> On Jul 5, 2018, at 9:20 PM, Kreigh Tomaszewski <kreigh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Had to drop my car off at the dealership today for service. Their shuttle
> driver gave me a ride home. He happened to mention he was going to
> Michigan's Upper Peninsula on his vacation in a couple weeks to try to
> collect some Yooperlite, a newly discovered fluorescent mineral.
> 
> I did some searching with Google when I got home and found it is actually
> Sodalite, which is a new mineral for Michigan.
> 
> https://www.facebook.com/Rockhounddoggie/posts/%22yooperlites%22-newly-named-fluorescent-stones/1793032584075868/
> 
> Fun!
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