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

[Tim Fisher]

Years ago Don told me that the only green fluorescence you're likely to see
in agate/jasper/opal etc. is due to trace amounts of uranium. Don let me
know if that's actually what you said :D

Tim Fisher
Http://OreRockOn.com 
Email nospam at orerockon.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] On
Behalf Of Alan Goldstein
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 7:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Black Lights Turn This North Carolina Mine Into a
Psychedelic Wonderland

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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From: Rockhounds <rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com> on behalf of
DON HALTERMAN <donhalterman at comcast.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 10:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Black Lights Turn This North Carolina Mine Into a
Psychedelic Wonderland

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:
>
>
> Black Lights Turn This North Carolina Mine
>
> Into a Psychedelic Wonderland. The Bon Ami
>
> Mine's deposits of the mineral hyalite glow
>
> fluorescent green under ultraviolet light
>
> by Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, April 12, 2022
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