GEMSTONE HARDNESS & Fluorescence | min | max | Range | Fluorescent | LW 465nm | MW 320nm | SW 254nm |
Achroite: Colorless Tourmaline [Elbaite] | 7.0 | 7.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | blue | yellow | |
Actinolite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | FLUOR | | | yellow-orangish |
Adamite | 6.0 | 6.0 | | FLUOR | green | | green |
Adularia : Orthoclase | 6.0 | 6.0 | | FLUOR | | | red |
Aerinite | 3.0 | 3.0 | | FLUOR | | | yellow-orangish |
Afghanite | 4.5 | 6.0 | 1.5 | FLUOR | yellow | | orange |
Agate: Quartz | 6.5 | 7.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | green | | white-yellowish |
Agrellite | 5.5 | 5.5 | | FLUOR | pink | pink-violetish | pink-violetish |
Ajoite, Shattuckite & Paragonite | 2.5 | 3.5 | 1.0 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Alabandite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Alexandrite | 8.5 | 8.5 | | FLUOR | red | | red |
Almandine Garnet | 7.5 | 7.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Almandine Garnet in Beryl: Goshenite | 7.5 | 7.5 | | FLUOR | | | white-bluish |
Almandine Garnet in Quartz | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Althausite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Aluminum | 2.5 | 3.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Amazonite: Microcline | 6.0 | 6.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | | | red |
Amber | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-bluish | | white-yellowish |
Ambligonite | 6.0 | 6.0 | | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | orange |
Amethyst: Quartz | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Amphibole in Quartz | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Analcime | 5.0 | 5.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | green | | green |
Anatase | 5.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Andalusite | 7.0 | 7.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Andesine | 6.0 | 6.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | | | red |
Andorite | 3.0 | 3.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Andradite Garnet | 6.5 | 6.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Anglesite | 2.5 | 3.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | yellow | | yellow-orangish |
Ankangite in Quartz | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Anorthite | 6.0 | 6.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white |
Antigorite | 2.5 | 4.0 | 1.5 | FLUOR | | | blue |
Apache Tear | 6.5 | 7.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Apatite: fluorapatite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | FLUOR | yellow | violet | yellow-greenish |
Apophyllite: fluorapophylite | 4.5 | 5.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | | | white-yellowish |
Aquamarine: beryl | 7.5 | 7.5 | | FLUOR | green | | green |
Aragonite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-yellowish | pink | white-bluish |
Arandisite | 6.0 | 6.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Arsenopyrite | 5.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Artinite | 2.5 | 2.5 | | FLUOR | white-bluish | orange | white-bluish |
Astrophyllite | 3.0 | 3.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Atlantisite-Serpentine: antigorite | 2.5 | 3.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | | | blue |
Augelite | 4.5 | 5.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Austinite | 4.0 | 4.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-greenish | | green |
Autunite-microcline | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | green | | green |
Axinite: manganaxinite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | red | | red |
Azurite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Azurite with Chrysocolla | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Babingtonite | 5.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Baddeleyite | 6.5 | 6.5 | | FLUOR | | | green |
Baratovite | 3.5 | 3.5 | | FLUOR | | | white-bluish |
Barilite-tilasite [barylite] | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | | | pink-violetish |
Barite | 3.0 | 3.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | orange |
Barylite-Tilasite | 5.0 | 7.0 | 2.0 | FLUOR | | | pink-violetish |
Bastnaesite | 4.5 | 4.5 | | FLUOR | orange | | white |
Benitoite | 6.0 | 6.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | red | | white-bluish |
Bertossaite Burangaite | 6.0 | 6.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Beryl: Aquamarine | 7.5 | 7.5 | | FLUOR | green | | green |
Beryl: Emerald | 7.5 | 7.5 | | FLUOR | red | | |
Beryl: Goshenite | 7.5 | 7.5 | | FLUOR | | | white-bluish |
Beryl: Heliodor | 7.5 | 7.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Beryl: Maxixe [blue] | 7.5 | 7.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Beryl: Morganite | 7.5 | 7.5 | | FLUOR | red | | |
Beryl: Red Emerald | 7.5 | 7.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Beryl: Vorobyevite [colorless, rose] | 7.5 | 7.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Beryllonite | 5.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | | | green |
Berzelianite | 2.0 | 2.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Beyozoans | – | – | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Bikitaite | 6.0 | 6.0 | | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-yellowish |
Boleite | 3.0 | 5.5 | 2.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Boracite [hydroboracite] | 7.0 | 7.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-bluish |
Bornite | 3.0 | 3.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Brass | 3.0 | 4.0 | 1.0 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Brazilianite | 5.5 | 5.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Breunnerite | 4.5 | 4.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Bronze | 4.5 | 4.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Bronzite | 5.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Brookite | 5.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Brookite in Quartz | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Brucite | 2.5 | 2.5 | | FLUOR | white-bluish | | white-bluish |
Bryozoans | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Bumble bee Stone | 2.5 | 3.5 | 1.0 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Burmite: Amber | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-bluish | | white-bluish |
Bustamite | 5.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | red | | red-orangish |
Cadmium | 2.0 | 2.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Calcio-samarskite | 5.0 | 6.0 | 1.0 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Calcite | 3.0 | 3.0 | | FLUOR | red | yellow | blue |
Cancrinite | 5.0 | 6.0 | 1.0 | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | yellow-greenish |
Carletonite | 4.0 | 4.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Carnellian | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Cassiterite | 6.0 | 7.0 | 1.0 | FLUOR | | | yellow |
Cavansite | 5.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Celestine [celestite] | 3.0 | 3.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-bluish | | white-bluish |
Ceruleite | 5.0 | 6.0 | 1.0 | FLUOR | | | yellow |
Cerussite | 3.0 | 3.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | yellow |
Chalcopyrite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Chamosite | 3.0 | 3.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Charoite | 5.0 | 6.0 | 1.0 | FLUOR | | | red |
Chlorargyrite | 1.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | FLUOR | blue | | |
Chondrite | 5.0 | 6.0 | 1.0 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Chondrite bassikounou | 5.5 | 5.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Chondrite: Meteorite | 5.5 | 5.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Chrome Antigorite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | | | blue |
Chrome Chalcedony | 6.5 | 6.5 | | FLUOR | green | | green |
Chrome Diopside | 5.5 | 5.5 | | FLUOR | blue | | blue |
Chrome Sphene [titanite] | 5.0 | 5.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | | | orange |
Chromite | 5.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Chrysoberyl | 8.5 | 8.5 | | FLUOR | red | | red |
Chrysocolla + Gem Silica | 2.0 | 2.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Chrysocolla – Cuprite | 2.0 | 2.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Chrysophase | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Cinnabar | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Citrine : Quartz | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Clausthalite | 2.5 | 3.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Clinohumite | 6.0 | 6.0 | | FLUOR | | | orange |
Clinozoisite | 5.5 | 5.5 | | FLUOR | | | white |
Cobaltite | 5.5 | 5.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Cobaltoan Calcite | 3.0 | 3.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Coffinite | 5.0 | 6.0 | 1.0 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Colemanite | 4.5 | 4.5 | | FLUOR | white-bluish | | white-bluish |
Columbite | 6.0 | 6.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Copper | 2.5 | 5.0 | 2.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Coprolite | 6.5 | 7.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Corundum: Sapphire | 7.0 | 9.0 | 2.0 | FLUOR | red | | red |
Cosmic Obsidian | 6.5 | 7.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Covellite | 4.0 | 4.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Creedite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-bluish |
Crocoite | 2.5 | 3.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Cuprite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Cyprine | 6.0 | 6.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Danburite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | blue | | green |
Datolite | 5.0 | 5.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-yellowish |
Diaspore | 6.5 | 7.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | | | white-yellowish |
Dinasour bone | 6.0 | 6.0 | | FLUOR | orange | | orange |
Diopside | 5.0 | 5.0 | | FLUOR | blue | | blue |
Dioptase | 5.0 | 5.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Diorite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Dolomite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | red |
Dravite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | | | yellow-orangish |
Dumortierite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-bluish |
Dumortierite in Quartz | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-bluish |
Dunilite | 6.0 | 6.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Ekanite | 5.0 | 6.5 | 1.5 | FLUOR | green | | green |
Emerald [beryl] | 7.5 | 7.5 | | FLUOR | red | | |
Endlichite [vanadinite] | 2.5 | 2.5 | | FLUOR | yellow | | yellow-greenish |
Enstatite | 5.0 | 6.0 | 1.0 | FLUOR | white-bluish | | |
Eosphorite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | FLUOR | red | | |
Epididymite | 5.5 | 5.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Epidot | 6.5 | 6.5 | | FLUOR | | | red |
Epidot in Quartz | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | | | red |
Ettringite | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-bluish |
Euclase | 7.5 | 7.5 | | FLUOR | red | | yellow light |
Eucryptite | 6.5 | 6.5 | | FLUOR | | | red |
Eudialyte | 5.0 | 5.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | orange | | |
Eulytine | 4.5 | 4.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Fassaite | 6.0 | 6.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Feldspar | 6.0 | 6.0 | | FLUOR | | | red |
Ferberite | 4.0 | 4.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Ferri-fluoro-tschermakite | 5.0 | 6.0 | 1.0 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Ferriwinchite | 5.0 | 6.0 | 1.0 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Fibrolite | 7.5 | 7.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Fluorapatite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | FLUOR | yellow | violet | yellow-greenish |
Fluorbritholite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Fluorite | 4.0 | 4.0 | | FLUOR | blue | blue | blue |
Fluorite-calcite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | blue | blue | blue |
Fluorite-Calcite-Willemite | 3.5 | 5.0 | 1.5 | FLUOR | green | green | green |
Fluoro Potassic Magnesio Arfvedsonite | 5.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | orange | | |
Fossilized Horn Coral | 6.5 | 7.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Friedelite | 4.5 | 5.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Gadolinite | 6.5 | 7.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Gahnite | 7.5 | 8.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Galena | 2.5 | 2.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Garnet: Almandine | 7.5 | 7.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Garnet: Demantoid | 7.0 | 7.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Garnet: Grossular | 7.3 | 7.3 | | FLUOR | red | red | red |
Garnet: Hessonite [grossular] | 7.3 | 7.3 | | FLUOR | red | | |
Garnet: Hydogrossular [Grossular-Hibschite] | 6.5 | 7.5 | 1.0 | FLUOR | | | orange |
Garnet: leueo | – | – | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Garnet: Mali | – | – | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Garnet: Melanite | 6.5 | 7.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Garnet: Purple | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Garnet: Pyrope | 7.3 | 7.3 | | FLUOR | red-orangish | | |
Garnet: Rhodolite [ Pyrope] | 7.3 | 7.3 | | FLUOR | red-orangish | | |
Garnet: Spessertite | 7.3 | 7.3 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Garnet: Topazolite | 6.5 | 7.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Garnet: Tsavorite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Garnet: Uvarovite | 7.5 | 7.5 | | FLUOR | red | | |
Gaspeite | 4.5 | 5.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Gersdorfite | 5.5 | 5.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Glaucophane | 5.0 | 5.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Goethite | 5.5 | 5.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Goethite in Beryl | 8.0 | 8.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Gold | 2.5 | 2.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Gold silver telluride | 5.5 | 5.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Goosecreekite | 4.0 | 4.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Grandidierite | 7.0 | 7.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Granite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Gyrolite | 3.0 | 3.0 | | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-yellowish |
Hackmanite [sodalite] | 5.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | orange | | yellow-greenish |
Hambergite | 7.5 | 7.5 | | FLUOR | orange | | white-yellowish |
Hematite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Hematite in Iolite | 7.0 | 7.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Hemimorphite | 4.5 | 5.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | | | blue |
Herderite | 5.5 | 5.5 | | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-yellowish |
Heterosite | 4.0 | 4.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Hexagonite [tremolite] | 5.0 | 5.0 | | FLUOR | orange | | red-orangish |
Holmquisite | 5.5 | 5.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Howlite | 3.5 | 3.5 | | FLUOR | white-bluish | | white-bluish |
Huanghoite | 4.5 | 4.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Hyalite | 6.0 | 6.0 | | FLUOR | green | green | green |
Hydrozincite | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | orange | | blue-whitish |
Ikranite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Ilvaite | 5.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Imperial Topaz | 8.0 | 8.0 | | FLUOR | orange | | white-greenish |
Indialite | 7.0 | 7.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Iolite | 7.0 | 7.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Jasper [quartz] | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Jet | 2.5 | 4.0 | 1.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Johannsenite | 6.0 | 6.0 | | FLUOR | orange dark | | |
Kakortkite | 5.5 | 7.0 | 1.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Kammererite | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Kornerupine | 6.5 | 7.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | green-yellowish | | green-yellowish |
Kryzhanovskite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Kunzite [spodumene] | 7.0 | 7.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | orange | | pink |
Kurchatovite | 4.5 | 4.5 | | FLUOR | violet | | red |
Kutnahorite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | red | | red |
Lapis & Pyrite [Hauyne] | 4.5 | 5.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | red-orangish | | |
Larimar | 4.5 | 5.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Lazulite | 5.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Lead | 1.5 | 1.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Leucite | 5.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-yellowish |
Liddicoatite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Lizardite [deweylite, kerolite] | 2.5 | 2.5 | | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-bluish |
Llanite | 6.0 | 6.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Londonite | 8.0 | 8.0 | | FLUOR | | | yellow-greenish |
Lybian Desert Tektite | 6.5 | 7.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Magnesioastrophyllite | 3.0 | 3.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Magnesiochromite | 5.5 | 5.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Magnesio-ferri-fluoro-hornblende | 5.6 | 5.6 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Magnetoplumbite | 6.0 | 6.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Malachite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Manganoan fluorapatite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Manganotantalite | 5.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Meierite Gillespite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Mexican Opal | 6.0 | 6.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Mimetite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | orange |
Mohawkite | 3.5 | 3.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Moldavite | 5.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Monazite | 5.0 | 5.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | | | orange |
Mooreite | 3.0 | 3.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Mottramite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Muonionalusta Meteorite | 5.5 | 5.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Muscovite | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-yellowish |
Nephrite | 6.0 | 6.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Nickel | 2.6 | 2.6 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Nickeline | 5.0 | 5.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Norbergite diopside | 6.0 | 6.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | yellow-orangish | | yellow |
Normandite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Oligoclase | 6.0 | 6.0 | | FLUOR | yellow | | red |
Olmite | 5.0 | 5.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | red | | red |
Omphacite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Orpiment | 1.5 | 2.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Orthoclase | 6.0 | 6.0 | | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | red |
Owyhee Blue Opal | 6.0 | 6.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Pallasite Peridot Meteorite | 6.5 | 7.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Paraiba Blue Opal | 6.0 | 6.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Paraiba Tourmaline | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Pargasite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | FLUOR | | | green dim |
Petalite | 6.0 | 6.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-yellowish |
Pezzottaite | 7.5 | 8.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | red | | |
Phenakite | 7.5 | 8.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Phosphosiderite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Picture Jasper | 6.5 | 7.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Piemontite | 6.0 | 6.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Pietersite | 6.5 | 7.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Plagionite | 2.5 | 3.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Platinum | 3.5 | 3.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Pollucite | 6.5 | 6.5 | | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | orange |
Potassic-Ferro-Chloro sadanagaite | 6.0 | 6.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Powellite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-yellowish |
Prehnite | 6.0 | 6.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-bluish |
Priceite | 3.0 | 3.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | yellow-orangish | | white-yellowish |
Prismatine | 6.5 | 7.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Prosopite-thomsenolite | 4.0 | 4.0 | | FLUOR | white-bluish | | yellow-greenish |
Pumpellyite-osumilite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Pyrite | 6.0 | 6.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Pyromophite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz Amethyst | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz Amethyst with Chisobalite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz Amethysts with+ Cacoxenite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz Cats eye | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz Chalcedony | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz Citrine | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz Citrine with Cacoxenite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz Cornellian | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz Onyx | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz Sardonyx | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz Tger eye (Crocidolite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Actinolite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | | | yellow-orangish |
Quartz with Almandine Garnet | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Amphibole | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Anatase | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Anhydrite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | pink | | red |
Quartz with Ankerite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | orange | | red |
Quartz with Bi Color Tourmaline | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Bismuthinite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Black Tourmaline | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Blue Dumortierite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-bluish |
Quartz with Blue Tourmaline | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Brookite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Calcite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | orange | | orange |
Quartz with Carbon | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Childrenite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Chlorite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Cristobalite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | | | red |
Quartz with Diopside | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | blue | | blue |
Quartz with Dumortierite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-bluish |
Quartz with Epidot | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | | | red |
Quartz with Fluorite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | blue | | blue |
Quartz with Geen Zoisite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | yellow-orangish | | |
Quartz with Gilalite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Green Tourmaline | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Hedenbergite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Helvite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | red | | red |
Quartz with Hematite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Hematite + Rutil | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Hematoid | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Hessonite Garnet | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Hollandite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Jamesonite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Lazulite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Lepidochrosite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Limonite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Lizardite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-bluish |
Quartz with Moss Agate | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | green | | green |
Quartz with Petroleum | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | white | white | white |
Quartz with Piemontite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Pyrite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Reibeckite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Ripidolite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Quartz with Rutil | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Rhodocrosite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | red | | red |
Rhodonite | 5.0 | 5.6 | 0.6 | FLUOR | red | | |
Rinkite-ferrokentbrooksite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Robinsonite | 2.5 | 3.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Rosasite | 4.0 | 4.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Rosolite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Ruby [corundum] | 9.0 | 9.0 | | FLUOR | red | red | red |
Ruby in Zoisite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | red | red | red |
Ruby with Fuchsite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | red | red | red |
Ruby with Kyanite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | red | red | red |
Ruby with Xenotime | 9.0 | 9.0 | | FLUOR | red | red | red |
Rutile | 6.0 | 6.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Sapphirine | 7.5 | 7.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Sarcopside | 4.0 | 4.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Scapolite with wernerite [meionite/marialite scapolite] | 5.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | yellow bright | | yellow |
Schalenblende with sphalerite & Galena | 2.5 | 3.5 | 1.0 | FLUOR | orange | | orange |
Scheelite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | FLUOR | pink-violetish | | blue-whitish |
Scheuchzerite | 2.5 | 2.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Sellaite | 5.0 | 5.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-yellowish |
Sepentine with Stichtite | 2.5 | 3.5 | 1.0 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Serpentine | 3.5 | 3.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Shungite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Siderite | 3.5 | 4.5 | 1.0 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Smaragdite | 5.5 | 5.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Smithsonite | 4.5 | 5.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | red |
Sodalite | 5.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | orange | | orange |
Sperrylite | 6.0 | 7.0 | 1.0 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Sphalerite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | orange | | orange |
Sphene [titanite] | 5.5 | 5.5 | | FLUOR | | | orange |
Stibio tantalite | 5.5 | 5.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Stichtite | 1.5 | 2.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Sulphur | 1.5 | 2.5 | 1.0 | FLUOR | | | red |
Sursassite | 3.0 | 3.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Taaffeite [magnesiotaaffeite] | 8.0 | 8.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | red | | white-yellowish |
Takovite | 2.0 | 2.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Talc | 1.0 | 1.0 | | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-yellowish |
Tantalite | 6.0 | 6.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Tarbuttite | 3.5 | 3.5 | | FLUOR | orange | | white-yellowish |
Tellurium | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Tephroite | 6.0 | 6.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Tetrahedrite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Thalenite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | FLUOR | | | yellow-greenish |
Thomsonite | 5.0 | 5.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | blue-whitish |
Thulite [zoisite] | 6.5 | 6.5 | | FLUOR | yellow-orangish | | |
Tilleyite | 4.0 | 4.0 | | FLUOR | white-yellowish | | white-yellowish |
Tinzenite | 6.5 | 7.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Topaz | 8.0 | 8.0 | | FLUOR | orange | | white-greenish |
Topaz with Biotite | 8.0 | 8.0 | | FLUOR | orange | | white-greenish |
Topaz with Limonite | 8.0 | 8.0 | | FLUOR | orange | | white-greenish |
Tourmaline in Aquamarine | 7.5 | 7.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Tremolite | 4.0 | 4.0 | | FLUOR | orange | | red-orangish |
Triphylite | 4.0 | 4.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Triplite | 5.0 | 5.5 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Tsumoite | 2.5 | 3.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Tugtupite | 4.0 | 4.0 | | FLUOR | orange | white-pinkish | red-orangish |
Ulmannite | 5.5 | 5.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Unakite | 6.0 | 6.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Uranopolycrase | 5.0 | 5.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Ussingite | 6.0 | 6.0 | | FLUOR | green dim | | green |
Uvarovite with Almandine Garnet | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | red | | |
Valleriite | 1.5 | 1.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Vanadinite | 3.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Vandenbrandeite | 4.0 | 4.0 | | FLUOR | green | | green |
Vayrynenite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Verdite | 5.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Violane | 6.0 | 6.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Vishnevite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Vorobyevite | 8.0 | 8.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Wah Wah Red Emerald: Bixbite | 8.0 | 8.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Wardite | 5.0 | 5.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Welo Opal | 6.0 | 6.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Willemite | 5.5 | 5.5 | | FLUOR | green | | green bright |
Willemite with Calcite & Franklinite | 4.0 | 5.5 | 1.5 | FLUOR | green dim | | green & red |
Winchite [parvowinchite] | 5.5 | 5.5 | | FLUOR | red | | pink-reddish |
Witherite | 3.0 | 3.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | blue-whitish | | blue-whitish |
Xenotime | 4.0 | 4.0 | | FLUOR | | | yellow-orangish |
Xonotlite | 6.5 | 6.5 | | FLUOR | blue-whitish | violet | blue-whitish |
Yttrofluorite | 4.0 | 4.5 | 0.5 | FLUOR | yellow | | yellow |
Zincite | 4.0 | 4.0 | | FLUOR | yellow-greenish | | |
Zircon | 7.5 | 7.5 | | FLUOR | | | yellow-orangish |
Zoisite | 6.5 | 6.5 | | FLUOR | | | yellow-orangish |
Zoisite – piemontite | 6.5 | 6.5 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
Zunyite | 7.0 | 7.0 | | FLUOR | | | red |
Zussmanite | 6.0 | 6.0 | | NON-FLUOR | | | |
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