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.
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Torreyite
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- Locality
- Sterling Hill mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex Co., New Jersey, United States
- Formula
- Mg9Zn4(SO4)2(OH)22·8H2O
- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.3 cm - Thumbnail
- Special Info
- Type & Only Locality
Small 5mm piece of white granular crystals with unknown pink. Type and only locality.
Torreyite
- Formula
- Mg9Zn4(SO4)2(OH)22·8H2O
- Crystal System
- Monoclinic
- Cleavage
- Good, None, None
- Luster
- Vitreous - Pearly
- Color
- bluish white
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Monoclinic - Prismatic
- Hardness
- 3
- Collection
- Phillips Collection
- Special Info
- Type & Only Locality
- On Dakota Matrix
- Previously Sold Torreyite
- On Dakota Matrix
- Other Available Torreyite
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Willemite
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- Locality
- Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey, United States
- Formula
- Zn2SiO4
- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 7 x 4 x 3 cm - Sm Cabinet
This is a really good specimen loaded with silky white to colorless acicular crystals of Willemite to 5mm and excellent purple Tephroite crystals to 1mm. I am not sure about the Friedelite crystals.
Willemite
- Formula
- Zn2SiO4
- Crystal System
- Trigonal
- Crystal Habit
- Prismatic, Massive - Granular, Massive
- Cleavage
- Poor, Poor, None
- Luster
- Vitreous - Resinous
- Color
- white, yellow, green, reddish brown, black
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Trigonal - Rhombohedral
- Fracture
- Uneven
- Hardness
- 5.5
- Collection
- Phillips Collection
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- On Dakota Matrix
- Previously Sold Willemite
- On Dakota Matrix
- Other Available Willemite
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