KT knows that there are a few rockhounds in the forum, having heard from them in the past.
October of 2020 KT sold his 50+ year collection of rocks and minerals to a dealer in Oregon and had His Royal Workmen build His Majesty a Royal Man Cave. There were several threads in the Family Friendly Topics about that project over the past few months. When that was finished and KT settled in, He began working on the remaining micro minerals that had been neglected for years, viewing, photographing, labeling and boxing them....BUT....
KT got a little tired of doing that and began to miss a bit the fun of collecting minerals....had not been collecting in 11 years because the Queen did not want His Majesty to accumulate more! HA HA Anyway, KT has discovered another aspect of the hobby, collecting fluorescent minerals. Purchased 2 new mineral lamps, one Long Wave (365 nm) and one Short Wave (245 nm), and lo and behold! KT found a site not 20 miles from the Castle that is covered with acres of a fluorescent rock called sodalite syenite! KT has visited that location some 4 times, about 1 hour per visit, and had great fun picking up loose pieces of this rock...in the dark. The rock fluoresces a strong orange color in LW light, no response in SW. So far KT has recovered about 200 pounds of this material and there is at least another 200 pounds on site to get before this fall. Anyway, KT ordered a 5 shelf book case, black in color to display some of these samples and others he has purchased. KT always enjoyed giving visiting rockhounds the WOW tour of His Royal Collection and now He will also enjoy giving any visitor the WOW tour of this collection of specimens, once it is set up properly. Most rockhounds have been to a Rock and Mineral Show and have seen fluorescent mineral displayed, but if anyone desires, KT will be glad to explain the property to you...in this thread.
Anyway, most importantly, KT is having more fun, added to the CRHing He has traditionally been doing...see KT's threads in the CRH subsection. KT will tease you with a couple of pictures! The first is a picture of this rock in a candy bowl, color of natural light, then the same candy bowl and rocks with LW light. Yes the candy bowl fluoresces also!
October of 2020 KT sold his 50+ year collection of rocks and minerals to a dealer in Oregon and had His Royal Workmen build His Majesty a Royal Man Cave. There were several threads in the Family Friendly Topics about that project over the past few months. When that was finished and KT settled in, He began working on the remaining micro minerals that had been neglected for years, viewing, photographing, labeling and boxing them....BUT....
KT got a little tired of doing that and began to miss a bit the fun of collecting minerals....had not been collecting in 11 years because the Queen did not want His Majesty to accumulate more! HA HA Anyway, KT has discovered another aspect of the hobby, collecting fluorescent minerals. Purchased 2 new mineral lamps, one Long Wave (365 nm) and one Short Wave (245 nm), and lo and behold! KT found a site not 20 miles from the Castle that is covered with acres of a fluorescent rock called sodalite syenite! KT has visited that location some 4 times, about 1 hour per visit, and had great fun picking up loose pieces of this rock...in the dark. The rock fluoresces a strong orange color in LW light, no response in SW. So far KT has recovered about 200 pounds of this material and there is at least another 200 pounds on site to get before this fall. Anyway, KT ordered a 5 shelf book case, black in color to display some of these samples and others he has purchased. KT always enjoyed giving visiting rockhounds the WOW tour of His Royal Collection and now He will also enjoy giving any visitor the WOW tour of this collection of specimens, once it is set up properly. Most rockhounds have been to a Rock and Mineral Show and have seen fluorescent mineral displayed, but if anyone desires, KT will be glad to explain the property to you...in this thread.
Anyway, most importantly, KT is having more fun, added to the CRHing He has traditionally been doing...see KT's threads in the CRH subsection. KT will tease you with a couple of pictures! The first is a picture of this rock in a candy bowl, color of natural light, then the same candy bowl and rocks with LW light. Yes the candy bowl fluoresces also!