Recently Released Special Editions
Rare Minerals of Franklin-Sterling Hill III
Releasing another lot of Franklin/Sterling Hill minerals from various collections but mostly the Phillips' Collection. This is a locality charished by those who not only enjoy rare species, but also fluorescent minerals.
Franklinite
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- Locality
- Sterling Hill mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex Co., New Jersey, United States
- Formula
- ZnFe3+2O4
- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 5 x 5 x 3 cm - Miniature
Brilliant, flashy Franklinite crystals to 1mm showing multiple modified crystal forms with acicular, colorless Willemite, and light yellow Barite crystals. The Barite crystals are not all that spectacular and are sparse. According to the olf Gerstmann tag (se prov tab) wthe specimen should have Alleghanyite crystals. I do not see them, but I do not know Franklin very well. The specimn is very similar to the specimen of Modris Baum's under Alleghanyite on Mindat. On the back side there are white to colorless crystals that look like Calcite with needles of Willemite.
Franklinite
- Formula
- ZnFe3+2O4
- Crystal System
- Isometric
- Crystal Habit
- Euhedral Crystals, Massive, Crystalline - Fine
- Cleavage
- None, None, None
- Luster
- Sub Metallic
- Color
- black, brownish black
- Streak
- reddish brown
- Class
- Isometric - Hexoctahedral
- Fracture
- Uneven
- Hardness
- 5.5-6
- Collection
- Phillips Collection
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- On Dakota Matrix
- Previously Sold Franklinite
- On Dakota Matrix
- Other Available Franklinite
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- Mindat
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Friedelite
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- Locality
- Sterling Hill mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex Co., New Jersey, United States
- Formula
- Mn2+8Si6O15(OH)10
- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 6 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm - Sm Cabinet
Orange-pink micro crystals, less than 0.3mm, in a small 5mm area. The rest is also Friedelite, but not as well crystallized. Old Ward's specimen.
Friedelite
- Formula
- Mn2+8Si6O15(OH)10
- Crystal System
- Monoclinic
- Crystal Habit
- Massive, Tabular
- Cleavage
- Perfect, None, None
- Luster
- Vitreous (Glassy)
- Color
- brown, brown red, yellow, light pink, dark red
- Streak
- pink
- Class
- Monoclinic - Prismatic
- Fracture
- Brittle - Uneven
- Hardness
- 4-5
- Collection
- Shultz Collection
- Mineralpedia
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- On Dakota Matrix
- Previously Sold Friedelite
- On Dakota Matrix
- Other Available Friedelite
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- Mindat
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Galena
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- Locality
- Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey, United States
- Formula
- PbS
- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 12 x 8 x 5.5 cm - Cabinet
- Tagged
- sulfide
Large specimen of fluorescent Calcite with crystalline grains of Galena to 1cm.
Galena
- Formula
- PbS
- Crystal System
- Isometric
- Crystal Habit
- Euhedral Crystals, Massive - Granular, Massive
- Cleavage
- Perfect, Perfect, Perfect
- Luster
- Metallic
- Color
- light lead gray, dark lead gray
- Streak
- grayish black
- Class
- Isometric - Hexoctahedral
- Fracture
- Brittle
- Hardness
- 2.5
- Collection
- Phillips Collection
- Mineralpedia
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- On Dakota Matrix
- Previously Sold Galena
- On Dakota Matrix
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- Mindat
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Hancockite
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- Locality
- Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey, United States
- Formula
- CaPbFe3+Al2(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 5 x 4 x 3 cm - Miniature
- Special Info
- Type Locality
Brick red massive Hancockite with bronzy micaceous Hendricksite. Franklin is the type locality for both minerals.
- Collection
- Shultz Collection
- Special Info
- Type Locality
- On Dakota Matrix
- Previously Sold Hancockite
- On Dakota Matrix
- Other Available Hancockite
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- Mindat
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