[Rockhounds] Black Lights Turn This North Carolina Mine Into a Psychedelic Wonderland

[Alan Goldstein]

Well, ultraviolet sounds almost as dangerous as ultraviolent.

And didn't I read somewhere that uranium that gives the hyalite opal it's green glow? I wonder what the radon count is in that mine!

Alan
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Black lights!  ARGGGGHHHHHH!!!  And this is the Smithsonian Magazine of all things.

Don


> On 04/13/2022 6:30 PM Paul <etchplain at att.net> wrote:
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> Black Lights Turn This North Carolina Mine
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> Into a Psychedelic Wonderland. The Bon Ami
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> Mine’s deposits of the mineral hyalite glow
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> fluorescent green under ultraviolet light
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> by Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, April 12, 2022
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