Finding Ruggles Mine Autunite with the new AURORA 365nm High-Power Actively-Cooled UV Flashlight
Channel: Midnight Minerals
Date: 2023-05-12

Finding Ruggles Mine Autunite with the new AURORA 365nm High-Power Actively-Cooled UV Flashlight during the daytime, in the mine's shadow. But certainly NOT in full darkness. 

PLEASE NOTE: Ruggles Mine is CLOSED to the public. For EFMLS Mineral Club access, club field trip coordinators can contact me. The owner, Chris DiPetta and I will work to schedule club trips. 

Midnight Minerals AURORA 365nm UV Flashlight w/ Active Cooling Technology

Discover fluorescent rocks and minerals from farther distance than ever before. 

WHAT'S IN THE BOX?

- AURORA UV High-Performance Flashlight
- Four button-top Li-Ion 18650 Batteries Included (approximately 4 hours runtime on full power)
- Four-bay battery charger with USB-A to USB-C charger cable included. 

Already known for offering some of the best Yooperlite Hunting UV flashlights on the market, Midnight Minerals now offers you the first Actively Cooled UV Flashlight. We call this project codename AURORA. Our next-generation UV flashlight packs a punch with FOUR high power 365nm UV LEDs, each independently focused with a polished aluminum reflector and UV bandpass filter. This beam configuration drives a longer distance while being fairly wide, illuminating a greater area than any other UV flashlight we have ever seen. Our quiet brushless thermal management system pulls in cool air and then exhausts out the sides of the flashlight head to let the LEDs run cooler than any other light on the market. We have you covered with repairability as well. We designed this to be customer repairable, where possible. LEDs modules are attached with connectors to allow for customer replacement.

Two power modes, half-click the power button changes between 100% power to 50% power and back. Full button click on/off. Power on returns to high power mode setting directly. 

On the bottom of the flashlight head, we have a 3/8"-16 thread with a 1/4"-20 adapter to let you mount this light directly on a tripod for hands-free operation when photographing minerals or inspecting rocks. Alternatively, you can mount varous small camera mounting accessories to attach your cell phone or an action camera like a GoPro or an Insta360 to your light to capture your quest for glowing minerals. The Aurora is effective for shopping at mineral shows as well. Great for Fluorite, ManganoCalcite, Sodalite, Wernerite, Sphalerite, Willemite. Hunt for Uranium Glass like a boss at thrift stores or antique malls. 

- Length: 6" long
- Width: 2.75" x 2.75"
- FOUR 365nm UV LED Heads
- Weight: 22 ounces
- Runtime: Approx 4 hours
- Active cooling technology
- Fine stainless steel mesh for intake and exhaust ports
- 1 Year Warranty
- Pay Over Time, 6 month or 12 month payment options available. 

The following is an excerpt from my friend, Fred Davis', paper entitled "The Discovery of Radioactive Minerals at Ruggle mine, Grafton, New Hampshire"

Collectors found radioactive minerals at Ruggles mine beginning around 1935 and reported their finds in hobbyist magazines. An abstract for a 1936 NHAS symposium identified uraninite and gummite from Ruggles in a report from Dartmouth college geologists. The first technical analysis of Ruggles uraninite was published by Dr. Benjamin Shaub in 1938. Numerous New England mineral clubs posted field trips to Ruggles from the late 1930s to 1940s. The geology and mineralogy of Ruggles was discussed and mapped in Sterrett (1923), Bannerman (1943), Page (1950), and Cameron et al. (1954). Frondel’s excellent handbook of uranium and thorium minerals in 1958 included many specimens from Ruggles mine. With Ruggles mine property under new ownership, the future looks promising for exploration of previously inaccessible areas. 

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