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8's, are you sure those are garnets ? Only thing I could find on fluorescent garnet is this.
U.V. Fluorescence: None, except in some green garnets (grossular and tsavorite) which may show a weak orange in long u.v. and weak yellow in short u.v..

Another with some ammolite showing. This from the Pierre Shale formation in South Dakota.

Here's another pyritized. This one from England.

New arrival, 1/7/2017.

to Stress. You pick up a hitchhiker... A beautiful girl. Suddenly, she faints inside your truck and you take her to the hospital. Now that's stressful. But at the hospital, they say she is pregnant and congratulate you that you're going to be a father. You say that you are not the father, but the gi...

Today's arrival. 1/4/2017 Straight from the Diamond Hill Mine in South Carolina. Only hosed off, with dirt still in the crevasses & cracks. Iron oxide coating on the milky white crystals. I'll post a pic as it arrived, then edit in a pic after a good scrubbing. I haven't decided yet if I'll acid...

New arrivals yesterday. 1/3/2017 http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac274/jakesrocks/Minerals%20%204/000E2582_zpsltfwzhmq.jpg Commonly called "Haystack Quartz" because of the way the quartz needle crystals are stacked over each other. This one has beautifully formed Pyrite cubes scattered ...

Happy New Year KJ. Happy New Year to all.

I like Achmed the dead terrorist's Jingle Bombs myself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH1Zaef7XXA

Nice one Pink. Probably from Madagascar. https://www.google.com/search?q=Celesti ... A3UQsAQISg