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September 30, 2019 11:15 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/JzgGxbPFyps/behold-the-glowing-yooperlite.html
Behold the glowing Yooperlite rocks of Lake Superior
Described by their finder as "Yoopalite" rocks, a cache of fluorescent sodalite-laced stones was found on a Michigan beach. The apparently bland, well-weathered pebbles light up under 365nm; agate-hunter Erik Rintamaki discovered them in 2017 while experimenting with ways to reveal the rare stones.
Read the restI actually sold a few to at Michigan Tech University, and they sent them out for testing and they contacted me through emails and told me I probably had something new that had never been found in Michigan before, and I ended up being published in the Mineral News in 2018 for that discovery," Rintamaki said.
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