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Molybdenite from
Gooseberry Mine, Balls Hill Iron Mines, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Molybdenite
Formula:MoS2
Comments:Occurs in conjunction with a magnetite orebody hosted in Cork Hill gneiss at its contact with Precambrian Franklin marble.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Molybdenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gooseberry Mine, Balls Hill Iron Mines, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:51758
Long-form Identifier:1:3:51758:2
GUID (UUID V4):e58855be-0f3b-464a-99d6-1f17257dbac3
Nearest other occurrences of Molybdenite
1.1km (0.7 miles) Buckwheat pit, Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
5.1km (3.2 miles) Copper Mine shaft, Edison Mine, Sparta Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
5.3km (3.3 miles) Edison Mine, Sparta Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
6.8km (4.2 miles) Eastern Concrete Materials Inc. Quarry (Raia Quarry; Cofrancisco Quarry; Hamburg Quarry), Hamburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
9.3km (5.8 miles) Lime Crest Quarry, Franklin Marble, Sparta Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
9.6km (6.0 miles) McAfee Quarry, McAfee, Vernon Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
22.2km (13.8 miles) Atlas Quarry (Empire Quarry), Pine Island, Town of Warwick, Orange County, New York, USA
24.7km (15.3 miles) Hude Mine (Stanhope Mine), Netcong, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
26.0km (16.1 miles) Riverdale Plaza, Riverdale, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
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MINERALS OF FRANKLIN AND STERLING HILL CLIFFORD FRONDEL THE MINEt 4-S OF FRANKLIN AND STERLING HILL A Check...deposits at Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey. For over two hundred years, the mines at these famous...different minerals have been identified at Franklin and Sterling Hill, including forty-four that had never...to stimulate international interest in Franklin and Sterling Hill. Part Two traces the area’s geological...of current references. The Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill is illustrated with over thirty photo¬
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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
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THE MINERALS OF FRANKLIN AND STERLING HILL A Check List By Clifford Frondel This concise and informative...deposits at Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey. For over two hundred years, the mines at these famous...different minerals have been identified at Franklin and Sterling Hill, including forty-four that had never...to stimulate international interest in Franklin and Sterling Hill. Part Two traces the area's geological...of current references. The Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill is illustrated with over thirty photo­
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C D JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY VOLUME 15 AUGUST 1972 NUMBER 2 www...Hardyston School, intersection of Routes #23 and #517, Franklin, N.J. Pre meeting activities start at 1:30 P-n... Field trip to the Cellate Quarry, Cork Hill Road, Franklin, N.J., 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 noon. Meeting 2:30...Kenneth Fisher Subject - Mineral Collecting in Franklin During the 1930's and 1940's. Saturday, October...October 21st Field trip to the old Andover Mine, opposite Aeroflex Field, Limecrest Road, Andover, N.J.
Report (issue)
Paper 180 THE MINERALS OF FRANKLIN AND STERLING HILL SUSSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY BY CHARLES PALACHE UNITED...ography.______________________---_---_.__ The Franklin mining district. _.---.-----_-----_-_--_ General...---History __._..__.....__-.------------.---._ Mines and mineral localities ------___-_--_ The ore d...in the magnetite deposits. -----Minerals in the Franklin limestone.-----Minerals in the Kittatinny limestone...16 17 17 18 19 19 19 19 20 20 20 20 20 20 The Franklin mining district Continued. The ore deposits Continued
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Catlin, Manager of Mines, New Jersey Zinc Company, 1906-30. JOURNAL of the FRANKLIN-OGDENS6URG MINERALOGICAL...Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The FRANKLIN-QGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY, Inc. The Officers...* * * * * * * PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE FROM THE FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY PRICE TITLE...Charles: The Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey. U. S. Geological Survey...Structure and Mineralogy of the Franklin Zinc-Iron-Manganese Deposit, New Jersey. Economic Geology. Only photocopies
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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:...Field Trip - FARBER Limestone Quarry, Cork Hill Rd., Franklin, N.J. 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon. Lecture -
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............................................... Iron skarns and volcanic-hosted magnetite.......................................... Types of potential new deposits...........................................2° quadrangle, Nevada......................... Mines, prospects, and claims in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle...and occurrences published by the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG), and compilations of metal production...minerals have been produced from several hundred mines in about 48 mining districts within the Reno quadrangle
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--GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FINAL JERSEY. REPORT OF STATE OF NEW Tt{N GEOLOGIST. IDOL. II. ZOOLOGY...31pAN'f. NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 1 I L P_RT I. t MINERALOGY. BOTANY. I NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL.................. Jersey C_ty, Hoboken. GEO. H. COOK, St-_te Geolog)st. NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...SURVEY Iv) NEW Ba_NSWIOX, _N. J., July 29th, 1889. To His Excellency Robert S. Green, Gover_or of the State...State of New Jersey, and ex-o]flvio President of _e Board of Managers of the State Geological Survey
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Survey of Canada Popular Geoscience 97 Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; South Shore, Nova Scotia...Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) in 1952, working in the new field of mineral identification based on X-ray diffraction...ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR: Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; South Shore, Nova Scotia...................................4 BAY OF FUNDY, NEW BRUNSWICK..............................................................4 Todd (St. Stephen Nickel) mine................................................
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West 111th Street, New York NY 10025 TREASURER John Cianciulli 60 Alpine Road, Sussex NJ 07461 ASSISTANT...interested in the minerals, mines, or mining history of the FranklinOgdensburg, New Jersey area is invited to...to join the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society, Inc. Membership includes scheduled meetings, lectures...John Cianciulli, Treasurer FOMS 60 Alpine Road Sussex NJ 07461 www.FOMSNJ.org The contents of The Picking...Richard C. Bostwick Tema J. Hecht 600 W. lllthSt.,#llB New York NY 10025 EDITORIAL BOARD John L. Baum Peter
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1300 135 103; customer.service@macmillan.com .au New Zealand agent/distributor: David Bateman Ltd: tel...the geysers at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. Silica-rich minerals are deposited by the hot water...transform rocks, lifting and twisting them to create new mineral-rich .m atter Over the next 4000 years, miners...eye and that sedi1nent washed into the sea fortns new sedimentary rocks. H e also can fin d fantastic specimens...the raw materials of the landscape. Every valley, hill and mountain peak is made entirely of rocks and
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Ellicott Station Buffalo, New York 14205 66 Leek Crescent Richmond Hill, Ontario L4B 1H1 Design and...destroyed in these changing conditions. In the process, new minerals and rocks are formed. RIGHT: Malachite...be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS... where particles are cemented together to form new rocks. These are form from the bodies of once-living
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times, and there is evidence of at least one flint mine dating from this period. Finely worked and polished...found and smelted. Remains of Bronze Age copper mines can be found, for instance, in various parts of...kind. Similarly, pyrite consists of one part of iron to two parts of sulphur, magnesite of one part magnesium...non-metal, SM = semi-metal, M = metaL) F fluorine F, iron G M H hydrogen G Hg mercury M K potassium M Li... etc. Many elements have more than one valency. Iron can be bi- or trivalent, Fe2 + and Fe3 +, copper
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W. H. Smith Publishers Inc. 112 Madison Avenue New York City 10016 This edition first published in... H. Smith Publishers, Inc., 112 Madison Avenue, New York 10016 © 1990 Dragon’s World Ltd © 1990 Text...Smith Publishers, Inc., 112 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016. (212) 532-6600. Editor: Michael...museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...granite but with no quartz. Sandstone (South Dakota, USA) _9_ A darker rock than granite but with a similar
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---------------------Milky Quartz -------------------Molybdenite --------------------- 54 43 I~1:~~~~t~~~~=~~~~~~~=i\::~...only to agriculture. Consider the value of the .iron, copper, zinc, lead, and other industrial metals;...sure to find industrial plants with quarries or mines on their property, or receiving carload shipments...powdered by placing the fragment on a flat piece of iron and striking it sharply with a hammer. WATCH GLASS...best known example of weathering is the rusting of iron. 14 Collectors Mineralogy Manual LIMESTONE and
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