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Hi, John– Depending on what you are after… Plan A, do-it-yourself: get a fluorescent lamp fixture and replace the fluorescent tube with a UV tube and add a filter (covering up to block any light not going through the filter) – UV tubes and filters may be cheapest from UV Systems (CIS mail to INTERNET:uvsystems@aol.com). This is the cheapest road for any given level of capability. Plan B: hand-held 4-AA-battery 6" 4-watt-tube UV lamps are available for very roughly $25-30 longwave (safer & cheaper), $40 shortwave (generally better for minerals), $60 both-in-one. These are weak but handy and cheap – a good way to get started. There are more expensive models, lantern-battery field lamps and house-current lamps (handheld and display). Several dealers of such things are listed in my COLDLI.ARC in this forum's library. –Doug