After the Township of Sparta, of which the Sterling Hill area was once a part. The Sparta township line adjoins the western property boundary of the Sterling Mine property in Hardyston Township.
This page provides mineralogical data about Spartalite.
References for Spartalite
Reference List:
Brooke and Miller (1852): 218.
Palache, Charles, Harry Berman & Clifford Frondel (1944), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana Yale University 1837-1892, Volume I: Elements, Sulfides, Sulfosalts, Oxides. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. 7th edition, revised and enlarged: 504.