![]() Check out this woman’s Yooperlite find, captured on video. The discovery of Yooperlites has catapulted Rintamki’s business and he now takes groups to the beach to find Yooperlites. The rocks are believed to be brought down from Canada by glaciers, Rintamki told WXYZ. The glowing rocks can be found mostly on Lake Superior between Whitefish Point an Grand Marais, and on the Keweenaw Peninsula. Rintamaki is not the first to discover the glowing rocks, but the first to have scientist confirm there is Sodalite in Michigan. The discovery was published in Mineral News in 2018. Yooperlite is the name Rintamaki came up with, but the rocks are actually Syenite rocks that are rich in fluorescent Sodalite. He sent them in for testing at Michigan Technological University and Saskatoon University. To the naked eye, they look like gray rocks, but under the UV light, the mineral composite makes the rocks glow. Rintamaki says it all started in 2017 when he went out on a beach in Lake Superior with a UV light and discovered tons of these glowing rocks. PICTURES: Check out these whopping 'Yooperlites' Without knowing what they were or why the rocks glowed, he named them “Yooperlites,” so the story goes. ![]() has made a glowing discovery.Įrik Rintamaki discovered a rock that glows under an ultraviolet light made of a mineral never seen before in Michigan. ![]()
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