Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

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This is the consolidated property (circa 1898) on the Franklin orebody, formerly owned by the New Jersey Zinc Co. The co-ordinates are for a central portion of the mine complex. Individual named pits and shafts are nearby. It incorporated all earlier workings. This mine was served initially by the Parker shaft, which soon proved inadequate to handle the mine's output. The Palmer shaft subsequently replaced it with a larger mill and served the mine until its closure in the mid 1950's. This mine reached a depth of 1,150 feet.This locality is within the Franklin Mining District. The complete list of mineral species occurring within this district, as well as the official boundaries of the district, can be found under the locality file for "Franklin Mining District." Those who share an interest in the unique mineralogy of the Franklin, NJ, area owe a special debt of thanks to mineralogists, past and present, Samuel L. Penfield, Yale University, Charles Palache, Harvard University; Clifford Frondel, Harvard University, Paulus (Paul) Brian Moore (University of Chicago, retired), Peter Leavens, University of Delaware, retired, Pete J. Dunn, (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, retired), Charles B. Sclar, Lehigh University, and John L. Baum, Curator Emeritus, Franklin Mineral Museum, and former Head Geologist, New Jersey, Zinc Co., Franklin, NJ, for their significant contributions to the body of knowledge of the history, geology and mineralogy of this district.

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Acanthite Actinolite Adelite Aegirine Albite Allactite Allanite-(Ce) Alleghanyite Almandine Analcime Anatase Andradite var: Melanite Anglesite Anhydrite Annabergite Anorthoclase Antigorite var: Vorhauserite Antlerite Apophyllite-(KF) Apophyllite-(KOH) Aragonite Arsenopyrite Atacamite Augite Aurichalcite Axinite-(Fe) Axinite-(Mn) (TL) Azurite Bakerite Bannisterite (TL) Barylite Barysilite Baryte Bementite (TL) Bornite Bostwickite (TL) Breithauptite Brookite Bultfonteinite Bustamite (TL) Cahnite (TL) Calcite Carrollite Caryopilite Celsian 'Chabazite' Chalcocite Chalcophanite Chalcopyrite Chamosite Charlesite (TL) Chloritoid Chlorophoenicite (TL) Chondrodite Chrysocolla

Cianciulliite (TL) Clinochlore Clinochrysotile Clinohedrite (TL) Copper Cuprite Cuprostibite Cuspidine Datolite Diopside var: Schefferite Djurleite Dolomite Domeykite Epidote Epidote-(Pb) (TL) Erythrite Esperite (TL) Feitknechtite (TL) Ferro-Actinolite Flinkite Fluorapatite Fluorite Fluor-uvite Franklinfurnaceite (TL) Franklinite (TL) Franklinphilite (TL) Friedelite Gageite (TL) Gageite-2M (TL) Gahnite Galena Ganomalite Ganophyllite Genthelvite Gersdorffite Glaucochroite (TL) Glaucodot Goethite Graphite Groutite Grunerite Gypsum Hardystonite (TL) Hastingsite Hausmannite Hedenbergite Hedyphane Hellandite-(Y) Hematite Hemimorphite Hendricksite (TL) Hetaerolite 'Heulandite' Hodgkinsonite (TL) 'Hornblende' Hübnerite

Humite 'Humite Group' 'Hyalophane' Hydrotalcite Hydrozincite Ilmenite Jacobsite Jarosewichite (TL) Jerrygibbsite (TL) Johannsenite (TL) Johnbaumite (TL) Junitoite Kentrolite Kittatinnyite (TL) Kolicite Larsenite (TL) Lead Lennilenapeite (TL) Leucophoenicite (TL) Lizardite var: Baumite Löllingite Loseyite (TL) Magnesiochlorophoenicite (TL) Magnesio-riebeckite Magnetite Manganberzeliite Manganhumite Manganite Manganocummingtonite Manganosite Marcasite Margarosanite (TL) Marsturite (TL) Meionite Microcline Mimetite Minehillite (TL) Molybdenite Monazite-(Ce) Muscovite var: Barian Muscovite Nasonite (TL) Natrolite Nelenite (TL) Neotocite Nickeline Orthoclase Pararammelsbergite Pectolite Pennantite Petedunnite (TL) Phlogopite 'Pimelite' Powellite Prehnite

Pumpellyite-(Mg) Pyrite Pyrobelonite Pyrochroite Pyroxferroite Pyroxmangite Quartz Rammelsbergite Rhodochrosite Rhodonite Richterite Roeblingite (TL) 'Roméite Group' Rosasite Roweite (TL) Rutile Safflorite Samfowlerite (TL) Sarkinite Schallerite (TL) Scheelite Sclarite (TL) Sepiolite Siderite Silver Skutterudite Smithsonite Sonolite Spessartine Sphalerite var: Cleiophane Spinel Stilpnomelane Strontianite Sussexite (TL) Synchysite-(Ce) Talc Tennantite Tephroite Thomsonite-Ca Thorite Thorutite Titanite Todorokite Tremolite Turneaureite (TL) Uraninite Vesuvianite var: Cyprine Wawayandaite (TL) Willemite Wollastonite Xonotlite Yeatmanite (TL) Zincite (TL) Zircon

292 entries listed. 210 valid minerals. 48 type localities (valid minerals).

Localities in this Region

USA New Jersey Sussex Co. Franklin Mining District Franklin Franklin Mine Buckwheat Pit (Southwest Opening; Buckwheat Mine) Black Hole Weights and Measures Mine Lang Shaft Newcombe Shaft Palmer Shaft Parker Mine (Parker shaft) Taylor Mine Trotter Mine (Lehigh Mine)

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