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          The Franklin-Sterling Hill area has more fluorescent minerals than anywhere else on Earth, and nothing is simple at this locality.

This checklist is not a treatise, so the descriptions are condensed and simplified. The most common fluorescent response is listed first. The UV wavelength or wavelengths listed for a mineral are those under which its fluorescence is brightest; “FL red SW” means that the mineral typically fluoresces red in shortwave UV, but may fluoresce less brightly under MW and/or LW. (Uncommon but significant fluorescences are in parentheses.) Subtleties such as fluorescent hue, saturation, and intensity are often overlooked.

For assistance in identification, the minerals are listed by assemblage, in brackets:

• [FM] = Franklin Marble

• [W] = weathering minerals

• [O] = zinc orebodies

• [V] = vein minerals

• [C] = calcsilicates

• [AC] = altered calcsilicates

Not all local minerals fit neatly into this scheme.

• {FO} = Franklin only

• {SHO} = Sterling Hill only​​​​​​​