Sterling Hill Mining Museum Mineral Collecting
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Details: Information on this museum collecting site can be found at their official website. It is a fee pay site, so it will cost at least $5 for adults, and a fee for the amount you carry out. Here is a blurb from their website about what you will find (altogether it is flourescent zinc ore): "Fine specimens of zinc ore, consisting of variable proportions of brown willemite, red zincite, black franklinite, and white calcite, can be collected on the dump with ease. Much of the willemite and calcite are brightly fluorescent, green and red respectively. Fluorescent sphalerite is commonly found as well, fluorescing variably orange, pink, or blue. White calcite marble from a nearby excavation contains pale blue-fluorescing diopside and yellow-fluorescing norbergite. Also found here are some of the rare species that made Sterling Hill famous as a mineral locality, but please note that these minerals are not called rare for nothing"
Directions: Directions are listed on their directions page.
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GPS Coordinates (lat,long): ( 41° 5'0.66"N, 74°36'12.72"W)
or (41.083516, -74.603533)
Google Map: (The GPS marker is supposed to be exact.)
Tags: Sterling Hill Mining Museum Mineral Collecting mine Ogdensburg New Jersey flourescent flourescence zinc ore brown willemite red zincite black franklinite white calcite sphalerite orange pink blue marble Wollastonite hydrozincite
 Cool 3 Color Willemite, Calcite, and Dolomite, Sterling Hill Mine, New Jersey |
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