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Orthoclase from
Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz11 photos of Orthoclase associated with Quartz at this locality.
Allanite Group6 photos of Orthoclase associated with Allanite Group at this locality.
Mica Group6 photos of Orthoclase associated with Mica Group at this locality.
Epidote5 photos of Orthoclase associated with Epidote at this locality.
Fluorite5 photos of Orthoclase associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Willemite5 photos of Orthoclase associated with Willemite at this locality.
Zoisite1 photo of Orthoclase associated with Zoisite at this locality.
Albite1 photo of Orthoclase associated with Albite at this locality.
Titanite1 photo of Orthoclase associated with Titanite at this locality.
Phlogopite1 photo of Orthoclase associated with Phlogopite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:54483
Long-form Identifier:1:3:54483:2
GUID (UUID V4):f6a02448-a5c2-4adb-8de5-d02f452a3274
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
4.0km (2.5 miles) Passaic pit (Marshall Mine; Passaic Mine), Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
9.8km (6.1 miles) Dunker Pond, Clinton, West Milford Township, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
11.9km (7.4 miles) Sussex nepheline-syenite sill, Libertyville, Wantage Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
13.2km (8.2 miles) Wykertown nepheline syenite intrusive, Wykertown, Frankford Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
15.8km (9.8 miles) Beemerville main nepheline-syenite mass, Libertyville, Wantage Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
16.0km (9.9 miles) Longcore Mine (Longcove Mine), Clearwater, Andover Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
17.2km (10.7 miles) Sulphur Hill Mine (Sulfur Hill Mine), Andover Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
18.9km (11.7 miles) Mase Mountain, Tierneys Corner, Jefferson Township, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
20.2km (12.6 miles) Amity, Town of Warwick, Orange County, New York, USA
22.1km (13.7 miles) Allen Mine, Rockaway Township, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGIGAL SOCIETY Volume 19 March 1978 Number One www.FOMSNJ...Hardyston School, Intersection of Rts. 23 and 517, Franklin, N.J. Premeeting activities begin at 1:00 P.M...Field Trip: Lecture: Gerstmann Franklin Mineral Museum, Walsh Rd., Franklin, N.J. 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon...Program on Franklin Minerals" - 2:00 P.M. Buckwheat Mineral Dump, Evans Street, Franklin, N.J. 9:00 A...Butkowski - "New Jersey Zeolites" 2:00 P.M. Farber Limestone Quarry, Cork Hill Rd., Franklin, N.J. 9:00
Report (issue)
9—Willemltc (yellowish brown), Franklin, N. .T. BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK MINER.ALOGICAL CLUB Volume...1. THE MINERALS of NEW YORK CITY and ITS ENVIRONS BY JAMES G. MANCHESTER NEW YORK PUBLISHED BY THE... Copyright, 3931 BY James G. Manchester AFFERTON PRESS NEW YORK I AUTHOR’S NOTE Since his boyhood days the...of his recreational hours collecting minerals in New York City and its environs. A record lias been personally...in the old lists, and the names of many others, new to the district, and discovered in recent years,
Journal (issue)
JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY Volume 19 Sept. 1978 Number Two www.FOMSNJ...Hardyston School, Intersection of Rts. 23 and 517, Franklin, N.J. Premeeting activities begin at 1:00 P.M...Trip: Lecture: Trotter Mineral Dump, Main Street, Franklin, N.J. 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Speaker: Carl Francis...Francis - Curator, Harvard Museum, "Franklin Mineralogy" Bodnar (Rudetown) Quarry, Quarry Rd., Rudeville...Minerals" Buckwheat Mineral Dump, Evans Street, Franklin, N.J. 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Speaker: George
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Deposits and the Zinc Deposits at Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey Highlands, United States WILLIAM...University, Hamilton, New York 13346 Jersey Geological Survey, P.O. Box 427, Trenton, New Jersey 08625 Abstract...Abstract Mesoproterozoic marble in the New Jersey Highlands hosts small magnetite deposits that occur in discrete...structurally beneath the Zn-Fe-Mn orebody at the Franklin mine. Marble host rocks are interlayered at Fe and...floor. Related marble-hosted Zn-Fe-Mn deposits at Franklin and Sterling Hill contain the assemblage willemite
Journal (issue)
JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY VOLUME 12 AUGUST 1971 NUMBER 2 www.FOMSNJ...School, intersection of Routes #23 and #517, Franklin, New Jersey. Pre-meeting activities start at 1:00 P...Field trip to the Cellate Quarry, Cork Hill Road, Franklin, N. J. 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon. Meeting 2:30 P...of Northwest New Jersey. Saturday, October 16th. Field trip to the old Andover Iron Mine, opposite Aeroflex...Dexter, Union College, Subject - Rambling Through New Jersey Sunday, November 21st. Field trip to the Gooseberry
Journal (issue)
JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY Volume 18 September 1977 Number 2 www.FOMSNJ...Hardyston School, intersection of Rta. 23 & 517 Franklin, N.J. - Pre-meeting activities begin at 1:00 P...October 15th Field Trip - The Old Andover Iron Mine (Opposite Aeroflex Field), Limecrest Rd., Andover...Trip - The Trotter Mineral Dump; Main Street, Franklin, N.J. 9:00 a.m. to Noon. Lecture - Mr. Robert...Hill". DAILY FRANKLIN ATTRACTIONS BUCKWHEAT Mineral Dump - Entrance through the Franklin Mineral Museum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
discovered at the Lime Crest quarry, Sparta, New Jersey, in 1993. Over the next two years a small number...in the quarry; none were found in the adjacent Franklin Marble. All the material apparently came from...structure and chemistry of axinitefrom Lime Crest, New Jersey. Dr. John m a r t , an executive editor of Rocks...edge of the Reading Prong Highlands in Sussex County, New Jersey. The Reading Prong is underlain by Proterozoic-age...Lime Crest quarry works an isolated outcrop of Franklin Marble approximately 2 miles southwest of the
Journal (issue)
Newsletter $3.00 The Rock Dam Gold Prospect A New Quartz Locality, Dickinson Co., Mich~g_an Shawn M...Dam gold prospect is located in central Dickinson County, Michigan, approximately ten kilometers north of...the dominant exposed bedrock in this part of the county. Excavated near the tum of the 20th century, the...Quartz Festival could be advantageous for making some new contacts and possibly seeing some good quartz crystals...obvious even when visiting some of the Garland County mines. I also planned to do some Magnet Cove collecting
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University.....157 by C. Albertini Sellaite from the Brumado mine ..................................................Resende Minerals of the Buckwheat Dolomote, Franklin, New Jersey....................183 by T. A. Peters,...Campbell and P. B. Leavens Pyrobelonite from Franklin, New Jersey................................................................................169 What’s New in Minerals? by W. E. W ils o n ................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1966 GEOLOGY AND STRUCTURE OF THE FRANKLIN-STERLING AREA, NEW JERSEY By J. M. Hague, J. L. Baum, L. A...ABSTRACT The Franklin-Sterling area is located in Sussex County, New Jersey, and Orange County, New York, along...along the western border of the New Jersey Highlands. A geologic study of the Precambrian rocks of the...metavolcanic types was undertaken by geologists of The New Jersey Zinc Company. The marble and paragneisses have...youngest, the Hamburgh Mountain gneisses, the Franklin marble band, the Cork Hill gneiss zone, the Wildcat
Book
THE MINERALS OF FRANKLIN AND STERLING HILL CLIFFORD FRONDEL THE MINEt 4-S OF FRANKLIN AND STERLING HILL...describes the unique ore deposits at Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey. For over two hundred years, the...hundred different minerals have been identified at Franklin and Sterling Hill, including forty-four that had...helped to stimulate international interest in Franklin and Sterling Hill. Part Two traces the area’s...complete list of current references. The Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill is illustrated with over thirty
Journal (issue)
TABLE The Taylor Mine Volume 24 Autumn Journal of the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society, Incorporated...liditor 27th Annual FRANKLIN-STERLING HILL Mineral Show A SPECIAL WORD The Franklin Show continues to...Smithsonian Institution, has become synonymous with Franklin and Sterling Hill, and for good reason. It is...contributing an unprecedented number of mineral species, new to science from these deposits. Since our last issue...trustees, it is our particular pleasure to say, FRANKLIN STERLING-HILL Congratulations! Dr. Dunn. MINERAL
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
collectors had discovered the hidden treasures of Franklin, New Jersey. The 25th Anniversary issue of ROCKS AND...MINERALS September, 1951 BROOKITE CRYSTALS FROM FRANKLIN, N . J . SAMUEL G. GORDON Formerly Curator of...of minerals which have been found in and near Franklin, N. J . , never ceases to amaze the mineralo­...boulder of dolomite on the dump of the Buckwheat mine, a spot which has been a favorite with nocturnal...at Franklin as follows: "The only well-defined occur­ rence of dolomite was in the Buckwheat mine at
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RECENT FRANKLIN, NEW JERSEY, MINERALS By BEVAN FRENCH 98 Alexander Avenue, Nutley 10, New Jersey The amazing...that have come from the zinc mines at Franklin, in northern New Jersey, have served to make this locality...locality a byword among mineral collectors. Franklin is a locality that follows no set rules and whose minerals...Bible of a Franklin mineral collector is Professor Charles Palache's "The Minerals of Franklin and Sterling...Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey." Published in 1935, as Professional Paper 180 of the U.S. Geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SYENITE AND NEPHELITE PORPHYRY OF BEEMERVILLE, NEW JERSEY M. AUROUSSEAU AND HENRY S. WASHINGTON Geophysical...INTRODUCTION During the earlier geological survey of New Jersey many outcrops of igneous rocks, mainly dykes...description. These rocks are nearly all located in Sussex County, and, owing to the small size of most of the...finds expression in the eastern United States from New England to Texas.' The large mass of nephelite syenite...Beemervillenephelite syenite.6 'H. S. Washington, Jour. Franklin Inst., CXC (1920), p. 796. 2B. K. Emerson, Amer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
510 ROCKS AND MINERALS BROOKITE CRYSTALS FROM FRANKLIN, N. J. SAMUEL G. GORDON Downloaded by [JAMES...of minerals which have been found in and near Franklin, N . J., never ceases to amaze the mineralogist...boulder of dolomite on the dump of the Buckwheat mine, a spot which has been a favorite with nocturnal...veins at Franklin as follows: "The only well-defined occurrence of dolomite was in the Buckwheat mine at Franklin...Franklin, where the stripping exposed a zone of gray dolomitic limestone, fine granular to compact and
Book
THE MINERALS OF FRANKLIN AND STERLING HILL A Check List By Clifford Frondel This concise and informative...describes the unique ore deposits at Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey. For over two hundred years, the...hundred different minerals have been identified at Franklin and Sterling Hill, including forty-four that had...helped to stimulate international interest in Franklin and Sterling Hill. Part Two traces the area's...complete list of current references. The Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill is illustrated with over thirty
Journal (issue)
07826 TREASURER John Cianciulli 60 Alpine Road, Sussex, NJ 07461 ASSISTANT TREASURER Stephen C. Misiur...minerals, mines, or mining history of the Franklin-Ogdensburg, New Jersey area is invited to join the FranklinOgdensburg...and send to: Mr. John Cianciulli 60 Alpine Road Sussex, NJ 07461 www.FOMSNJ.org The contents of The Picking...AlJTUMri/WlMTERl992 T O ARTICLES The Check-list of Franklin-Sterling Hill Fluorescent Minerals: Discussion...twice each year, in March and September, by the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society, Inc. (FOMS)
Book
Guide to Mineral Collecting rr at Franklin and Sterling Hill, I New Jersey ffi fi.-i'l �� with Notes as...CRYSTALS, FRANKLIN, NEW JERSEY • A Guide to Mineral Collecting at Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey...F. Kushner Author of AN ABBREVIATED MANUAL OF FRANKLIN MLNERALS A GUIDE TO MINERAL COLLECTING A T OURAY...the Harri-Anne Studios. Franklin. New Jersey. Mrs. Florence Hansen of the Franklin-Kiwanis Museum. Dana...Ervan F. Kushner, Books 5 Colt Street Paterson. New Jersey 07505 DEDICATION to John Leach Baum & Ewald
Journal (issue)
HUNDRED FOOT LEVEL, FRANKLIN MINE NO. 2 • AUTUMN 1984 • VOLUME 25 JOURNAL of the FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL... 4.0 International License. from the Editor FRANKLIN CELEBRATION AT HARVARD The Harvard Mineralogical...publication of The Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey U.S.G.S. Professional Paper...1985 at the University. Harvard University and Franklin have enjoyed an exceptional relationship for over...research during the highlyproductive years of the Franklin-Sterling mines, and through the efforts of Dr
Journal (issue)
JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY Volume 20 March 1979 Number One www.FOMSNJ...l 4.0 International License. Spring Program FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC. 1979 Regular...from 9:30 a.m. to noon in Kraissl Hall at the Franklin Mineral Museum. Afternoon lecture programs begin...at 2:00 p.m. at the Hardyston School, Rt. 23, Franklin, N.J., premeeting activities at 1:00 p.m. Saturday...17 Field Trip: Gerstmann Franklin Mineral Museum, 14 Walsh Rd., Franklin, N.J. 9:00 a.m. to noon Micro
Journal (issue)
JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY VOLUMES AUGUST 1968 NUMBER 2 www.FOMSNJ...Hardyston School, intersection of Routes #23 and #517, Franklin, N. J. Pre meeting activities start at 1:00 P...September 21st Cellate Quarry, Cork Hill Road, Franklin. Meeting 2:30 P. A. Speaker, John Albanese on...Mineralogy of the Franklin Area" Saturday, October 19th Field trip, 9 A.M. to Noon Andover Iron Mine, Andover...P.M. Speaker, John Sebastian on "Mining in the Franklin Area" Saturday , November 2nd Fossil trip -
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ManganeseDeposit,New Jersey CLIFFORD FROND•.LANDJOHNL. BAura Abstract The Franklin and the nearby Sterling...during late Precambrian time. Internally, the Franklin ore body is composedof bed-like or lens-like bodiesof...different minerals that have been identified at Franklin and Sterling Hill are either weathering productsor...started after THE 'Franklin and Sterling Hill mines are situated in Sussex County, New Jersey, about 50 miles...miles northwestof New York City. The depositsare believed to have beenfirst noticedin the period 16401657
Report (issue)
Magnetite Deposits of the Franklin Quadrangle and Part of the Hamburg Quadrangle, New Jersey GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Magnetite Deposits of the Franklin Quadrangle and Part of the Hamburg Quadrangle, New Jersey By DONALD R. BAKER...and magnetite deposits of an area in northern New Jersey UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...Metamorphic facies_____________________________ Franklin block.____________________________ Beaver Lake...Geologic map of the Franklin quadrangle and part of the Hamburg quadrangle, New Jersey.________________
Journal (issue)
D JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY Volume 18 March 1977 www.FOMSNJ.org The...Hardyston School, intersection of Rts. 23 & 517 Franklin, N.J. - Pre-meeting Activities begin at 1:00 P... Field Trip - FRANKLIN Mineral Museum and GERSTMANN Franklin Mineral Museum, Franklin, N.J. - 9:00 A...Field Trip - BUCKWHEAT Mineral Dump, Evans Street, Franklin, N.J. 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon. Lecture - Speaker:...Rd., Franklin, N.J. 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon. Lecture - Speaker: Dr. Peter Leavens - "How Franklin Minerals
 
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