Zum-86: "Lime & Orange Sherbet" Rock, Zumwalt Mine (NM), Fluorescent Minerals

Description

Last year
we climbed up the east side of South Peak in the Tres Hermanas (Three Sisters) Mountains to the Zumwalt Mine in search of more rocks with our "glo-hounds"
Ellie & Molly (photos #9 & 10).  Some specimens of white aragonite, like this one, have a coating of green-fluorescing opal & orange-fluorescing caliche (SW).
In daylight the rock has the appearance of a dirty snowball (photos #7 & 8).
Under short wave lamp the
caliche &
opal coatings glow
orange
&
bright
green,
respectively, &
any uncoated aragonite glows
pale blue
(photos #1-3).
The aragonite
phosphoresces
after the SW lamp is turned off.
Under long wave lamp the caliche also glows
orange,
& the aragonite glows
a
paler blue
and
cream
color
(
photos #4-6).
Weighs 9.4 oz. & measures 2.5 x 2.375 x 2.25 inches (#Zum-86).
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FILMED WITH NIKON COOLPIX 5000 CAMERA AND 13 WATT DC
SUPERBRIGHT II
LAMP (SW) &
CONVOY S2 FLASHLIGHT (LW)
.
SHORT WAVE LAMP
& LONG WAVE CONVOY FLASHLIGHT NEEDED TO VIEW FLUORESCENCE.