A101 FR108 Franklin NJ Rare Ore Body Fluorite light sensitive 5.5x3.5x2\" 1.66lb For Sale

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A101 FR108 Franklin NJ Rare Ore Body Fluorite light sensitive 5.5x3.5x2\" 1.66lb:
$75.00

A101 Franklin NJ Orebody Fluorite
this Beautiful stone weighs 1.66lbs and measures 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 2 inches
Willemite fluoresces green under both shortwave and longwave ultraviolet light
Calcite fluoresces reddish orange under shortwave ultraviolet light
Fluorite is both triboluminescent and thermoluminescent, this material fades under exposure to sunlight and this stone is wrapped in butcher paper and also aluminum foil
not all minerals from Sterling Hill or the Franklin Mine are phosphorescent
From FOMS: \"Fluorite was first reported, purportedly from Franklin, by Bruce (1810b), but the occurrence was actually in Hamburg, north of the ore deposits and the presently defined \"Franklin-Sterling Hill Area\". However, fluorite was reported as \"fluate of lime\" in many of the reports of the 1820\'s and as ittro cerite by Gibbs (1823), spelled yttrocerite by Palache (1935).Local fluorite occurs in masses, as interstitial grains in granular aggregates and as fine, small crystals in vein assemblages. Fiveling twins, similar to that of hetaerolite illustrated by Palache (1935) are rare. Flow textures are occasionally evident; rounded aggregates are typical, especially where associated with calcite. It is found in red, pink, gray, brown, violet, and other colors; violet and pink are the most common. Some fluorite is violet at the contacts with nickel arsenides. Cleavage is perfect and the density is 3.19 g/cm3. Fluorite is readily distinguished by its cleavage.Colorless Franklin fluorite has been shown to be thermoluminescent and triboluminescent (Wick, 1937), and brilliant yellow thermoluminscence and white triboluminescence have been reported by Northup and Lee (1940). Colored material is known to fade on exposure to sunlight. Fluorite from the orebodies is largely fluorescent in ultraviolet; that found in the Franklin Marble is commonly non-fluorescent. Where evident, the fluorescence is green to bluish green in longwave and shortwave ultraviolet and rarely vivid violet, stronger in longwave. Some material, when freshly obtained, is phosphorescent in response to incandescent light; see Bostwick (1982). Some orange-brown material which exhibits a bluish-green fluorescence is visible-light-sensitive and the fluorescence diminishes in quality after the specimen has been exposed to visible light for any appreciable time (R. C. Bostwick, personal communication). Additional observations of responses to ultraviolet were given by Millson and Millson (1950) and Jones (1961). Few chemical data have been published since the analysis given by Palache (1935), except for trace element studies of Sterling Hill fluorite by Buis (1983). She reported that all specimens studied were enriched in Mn, Zn, and Fe and that yttrium was a minor component, confirming the earlier finding of Humphreys (1904). Franklin fluorite was reported to host the rare-earths Dy and Sm (Wicks, 1937); Pb, Sn, Mn, Mg, and Fe were reported by Northup and Lee (1940).

Fluorite occurs in the two orebodies and in the Franklin Marble. At Franklin, massive material is locally common, especially in the Trotter Shaft area, and as an occasional intergranular constituent of the franklinite-willemite ore. Fine crystals are found in some uncommon vein assemblages but, in general, are rare here, unlike at many other ore deposits. Fluorite is associated with many minerals, most commonly with calcite, pyrite, dolomite, sphalerite, and quartz, and also with rhodochrosite, and others.\"

below photos are of my brother and I taken
underground in the Sterling Hill Mine in the early

Sterling Hill and Franklin Zinc Mines
from wikipedia ...\"The Sterling Hill Mine, now known as the Sterling Hill Mine Tour & Museum of Fluorescence, is a former iron and zinc mine in Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. It was the last working underground mine in New Jersey when it closed in 1986, and it became a museum in 1989. Along with the nearby Franklin Mine, it is known for its variety of minerals, especially the fluorescent varieties. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

Mining began at the site in the 1630s, when it was mistakenly thought to be a copper deposit. George III of the United Kingdom granted the property to William Alexander, titled Lord Stirling. Stirling sold it to Robert Ogden in 1765. It went through several owners until the various mines were combined into the New Jersey Zinc Company in 1897. The mine closed in 1986 due to a tax dispute with the town, which foreclosed for back taxes in 1989 and saleed the property to Richard and Robert Hauck for $750,000. It opened as a museum in August 1990.

Franklin Furnace, also known as the Franklin Mine, is a famous mineral location for rare zinc,[1] iron, manganese minerals in old mines in Franklin, New Jersey, United States. This locale produced more species of minerals (over 300) and more different fluorescent minerals than any other location. The mineral association (assemblage) from Franklin includes willemite, zincite and franklinite.

During the mid-to-late 19th century the furnace was the center of a large iron making operation. Russian, Chilean, British, Irish, Hungarian and Polish immigrants came to Franklin to work in the mines, and the population of Franklin swelled from 500 (in 1897) to over 3,000 (in 1913).

The Furnace mine which was adjacent to the actual furnace, was a 120+ foot vertical shaft just under Franklin Falls. Other rare minerals include esperite, clinohedrite, hardystonite, and others. There are scores of minerals found only here, such as johnbaumite (an arsenous apatite), mcgovernite, etc. Sterling Hill, a very similar zinc orebody, is located a few miles away in Ogdensburg.

Geology
The ore bodies at the Sterling Hill mine lie within a formation called the Reading Prong massif; the ores are contained within the Franklin Marble. This was deposited as limestone in a Precambrian oceanic rift trough. It subsequently underwent extensive metamorphosis during the Grenville orogeny, approximately 1.15 billion years ago. Uplift and erosion during the late Mesozoic and the Tertiary exposed the ore bodies at the surface; the glaciers of the Pleistocene strewed trains of ore-bearing boulders for miles to the south, in places creating deposits large enough to be worked profitably.

In the area of the Franklin and Sterling Hill mines, 357 types of minerals are known to occur; these make up approximately 10% of the minerals known to science. Thirty-five of these minerals have not been found anywhere else.[9] Ninety-one of the minerals fluoresce. There are 35 miles (56 km) of tunnels in the mine, going down to 2,065 feet (629 m) below the surface on the main shaft and 2,675 feet (815 m) on the lower shaft. As of 2017, other than the very top level of the mine (<100 ft), the entire lower section has been flooded due to underground water table and hence no longer accessible. The mine remains at 56 °F (13 °C) constantly.

Museum
The tour spends about 30 minutes inside the Exhibit hall which contains a wide variety of mining memorabilia, mineralogical samples, fossils, and meteorites. It then leads into the mine for a 1,300 feet (400 m) walk on level ground through the underground mine. The walk goes through a new 240 feet (73 m) section called the Rainbow tunnel which they blasted in 1990 using 49 blasts and at a cost of $2 a foot. In the Rainbow room, short wave UV lights are turned on to demonstrate the entire tunnel and various samples glowing with fluorescence. The mine is also home to the Ellis Astronomical Observatory, the Thomas S. Warren Museum of Fluorescence, and a collection of mining equipment.
The museum periodically arranges public mineral collecting sessions as well as more private and behind the scene events for local geology clubs.\"

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A101 FR108 Franklin NJ Rare Ore Body Fluorite light sensitive 5.5x3.5x2" 1.66lb

$75.00