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Graphite from
Lime Crest Quarry, Franklin Marble, Sparta Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Graphite
Formula:C
Comments:Thin disks around 1 cm in the marble and skarn.
Habit:thin tabular disks
Colour:black
Quality for species:Good crystals or rich for species - important (!)
Abundance at site:Common
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calcite45 photos of Graphite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Norbergite25 photos of Graphite associated with Norbergite at this locality.
Spinel13 photos of Graphite associated with Spinel at this locality.
Chondrodite10 photos of Graphite associated with Chondrodite at this locality.
Marble3 photos of Graphite associated with Marble at this locality.
Actinolite3 photos of Graphite associated with Actinolite at this locality.
Tremolite3 photos of Graphite associated with Tremolite at this locality.
Phlogopite2 photos of Graphite associated with Phlogopite at this locality.
Muscovite2 photos of Graphite associated with Muscovite at this locality.
Fluorite2 photos of Graphite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Graphite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lime Crest Quarry, Franklin Marble, Sparta Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (15 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:72699
Long-form Identifier:1:3:72699:5
GUID (UUID V4):1cefee25-035c-4ab0-a38b-1ee023b3b7b6
Nearest other occurrences of Graphite
7.1km (4.4 miles) Fill Quarry, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
7.1km (4.4 miles) Passaic pit (Marshall Mine; Passaic Mine), Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
7.2km (4.5 miles) Whispering Woods Lane, Franklin Marble, Sterling Hill, Sparta, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
7.3km (4.5 miles) Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
8.1km (5.0 miles) Franklin Quarry (Braens Quarry; Moses Bigelow Quarry; Farber Quarry), Franklin Marble, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
9.6km (5.9 miles) Fowler Quarry (Nichol Quarry; B. Nicoll Quarry; Nicoll Quarry; Nicol Quarry; Cellate Quarry), Franklin Marble, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
9.6km (6.0 miles) Canfield Mica locality, Franklin Marble, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
10.2km (6.4 miles) Buckwheat dump mineral collecting site, Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
10.2km (6.4 miles) Franklin Iron Company Quarry (Pistol Range Quarry; Rifle Range Quarry), Franklin Marble, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
10.4km (6.5 miles) Buckwheat pit, Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 23:25 18 November 2014 hebest Uuarrv Sparta, New’Jersey ADAM WOLF JOHN RAKOVAN Department of...erroaxinite was first discovered at the Lime Crest quarry, Sparta, New Jersey, in 1993. Over the next two years...granite body exposed in the quarry; none were found in the adjacent Franklin Marble. All the material apparently...structure and chemistry of axinitefrom Lime Crest, New Jersey. Dr. John m a r t , an executive editor...MINERALS Figure I . Lime Crest quarry, crusher and storage bins as seen from the quarry floor; Steve Misiur
Journal (issue)
West 111th Street, New York NY 10025 TREASURER John Cianciulli 60 Alpine Road, Sussex NJ 07461 ASSISTANT...of the FranklinOgdensburg, New Jersey area is invited to j oin the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society...John Cianciulli, Treasurer FOMS 60 Alpine Road Sussex NJ 07461 www.FOMSNJ.org The contents of The Picking...twice each year, in March and September, by the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society, Inc. (FOMS)...mineralogical community which pertain to the Franklin-Ogdensburg, New Jersey area. Articles related to the minerals
Journal (issue)
*T*ABLE ''".iasi,,,,,,,,"*'"" JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINFRAI OGICALSOCIETY Volume 43, No...Inside: Arsenate Photo Essay Part II The 2002 Franklin-Sterling Hill Mineral Species List... Evidence...License. A Franklin Wedding July 27, 2002 was a very special day in Franklin, New Jersey! It was so special...minds and meandered over to the gazebo at the Franklin Pond to watch two best friends declare their friendship...friendship and love for each other. Franklin mayor Edward Allen performed the marriage ceremony, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Unusual Graphite Crystals FROM THE LIME CREST QUARRY, SPARTA, NEW JERSEY Microcrystals of graphite occurring...occurring in the Franklin Marble at the Lime Crest quarry, Sparta, New Jersey, exhibit a variety of unusual...extreme softness and flexibility, the common mineral graphite is not often represented in collections by well-crystallized...make good micromounts. Some of the best-formed graphite crystals are known to occur up to a few millimeters...localities, including the following: Crestmore quarry, Riverside, California (Jaszczak 1991) Gouverneur
Journal (volume)
from Franklin, NJ. Feature: Palache's "Contributions to the Mineralogy of Sterling Hill, New Jersey:" The...11B New York, NY 10025 Membership Information Treasurer John Cianciulli 60 Alpine Road Sussex, NJ 07461...mining history of the Franklin-Ogdensburg, New Jersey area is invited to join the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical...Cianciulli, Treasurer FOMS 60 Alpine Road Sussex, New Jersey 07461 Philip P. Betancourt Richard C. Bostwick...Hill, New Jersey:" John A. Jaszczak 6 Yellow-Fluorescing Fluorite and Cuspidine from Franklin, New Jersey
Journal (issue)
TRE PICEING JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY Volume 51, No. 1 - Spring 2010 ...Albanese • Recent Deep Core Drilling at Limecrest Quarry • Lunar Mineral Discovered at Taylor Road Site...Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society, Inc. OFFICERS...VICE-PRESIDENT Richard Keller 13 Green Street, Franklin, NJ 07416 (973) 209-4178 franklinnj@hotmail.com...VICE-PRESIDENT Joseph Kaiser 40 Castlewood Trail, Sparta, NJ 07871 (973) 729-0215 kaiser3@embarqmail.com
Journal (volume)
West 111th Street, New York NY 10025 TREASURER John Cianciulli 60 Alpine Road, Sussex NJ 07461 ASSISTANT...of the FranklinOgdensburg, New Jersey area is invited to join the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society...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...from the Franklin Mineral Museum News from Sterling Hill Field Trip Report 6 1998 Franklin-Sterling
Journal (issue)
TABLE Inside the Franklin Power House, circa 1940 JOURNAL of the FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY...Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY, Inc. The Officers...International License. The PICKING TABLE Journal of the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society, Incorporated...Page No. The Franklin Quarry by Philip P. Betancourt 2 Early Products of the New Jersey Zinc Company... Marsturite epitaxial on rhodonite from Franklin, New Jersey by Pete J. Dunn and Peter B. Leavens 16
Journal (issue)
West 111th Street, New York NY 10025 TREASURER John Cianciulli 60 Alpine Road, Sussex NJ 07461 ASSISTANT...of the FranklinOgdensburg, New Jersey area is invited to join the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society...John Cianciulli, Treasurer FOMS 60 Alpine Road Sussex NJ 07461 www.FOMSNJ.org The contents of The Picking...C. Bostwick Tema J. Hecht 600 W. 1 llth St., nIB New York NY 10025 EDITORIAL BOARD John L. Baum Peter...twice each year, in March and September, by the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society, Inc. (FOMS)
Book (edition)
PENNSYLVAN1 A & NEW JERSEY «s m •p ■* ; sms •v ■1 mm D 'A ©F PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY By Scott...man or nature, Gem Trails of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, its publisher and all other persons directly......... Physiographic Map of Pennsylvania and New Jersey 5 6 7 9 10 12 PENNSYLVANIA SITE NO. PAGE...Shelocta Siderite Concretions..... New Paris Fluorite....................... New Enterprise Banded Chert............. Ickesburg Trilobites.................... New Bloomfield Devonian Fossils Mt. Hope White Quartzite
Journal (issue)
THE PICKING TABLE Journal of the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society Vol. 53, No. 2 – Fall 2012...Metamorphic Rocks, Part 1 • The Strange Morphologies of Graphite From the Trotter Dump • ‟Christmas Tree Ore” Explained...Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society, Inc. OFFICERS...J. KELLER, JR. WILLIAM KROTH 13 Green Street Franklin, NJ 07416 H: (973) 209-4178 C: (973) 222-2088...edu TEMA J. HECHT 600 West 111th Street, Apt. 11B New York, NY 10025 H: (212) 749-5817 C: (917) 903-4687
Journal (issue)
West 111th Street, New York, NY 10025 TREASURER John Cianciulli 60 Alpine Road, Sussex, NJ 07461 ASSISTANT...of the FranklinOgdensburg, New Jersey area is invited to join the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society...John Cianciulli, Treasurer FOMS 60 Alpine Road Sussex, NJ 07461 www.FOMSNJ.org The contents of The Picking...TABLE EDITOR Joe Kaiser 40 Castlewood Trail Sparta, New Jersey 07871 EDITORIAL BOARD John L. Baum Richard...twice each year, in March and September, by the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society, Inc. (FOMS)
Journal (volume)
THE PICKING TABLE JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY VOL. 46 — SPRING/FALL 2005...Kemble family, long-term Franklin mineral collectors • Grunerite added to the Franklin-Sterling Hill species...species list • More reflections on Franklin wollastonite www.FOMSNJ.org The contents of The Picking Table...Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society, Inc. Officers...SECRETARY TEMAJ.HECHT 600 West 111th Street, Apt. 11B New York NY 10025 (212)749-5817 thecht@att.net TREASURER
Journal (volume)
West 111th Street, New York NY 10025 TREASURER John Cianciulli 60 Alpine Road, Sussex NJ 07461 ASSISTANT...of the FranklinOgdensburg, New Jersey area is invited to join the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society...John Cianciulli, Treasurer FOMS 60 Alpine Road Sussex NJ 07461 www.FOMSNJ.org The contents of The Picking...C. Bostwick Tema J. Hecht 600 W. lllth St., 011B New York NY 10025 N EDITORIAL BOARD John L. Baum Peter...from the President 6 Local Notes News from the Franklin Mineral Museum News from Sterling Hill Field Trip
Journal (volume)
JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY $20.00 U.S. Vol. 47 — Combined Issue 2006 ...from Dr. Clifford Frondel • A new occurrence of genthelvite from Franklin • Observable genthelvite in the...sphalerite • Newly discovered historic photos of Franklin www.FOMSNJ.org The contents of The Picking Table...Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society, Inc. OFFICERS...VICE-PRESIDENT William Truran 37 Rainbow Trail Sparta, NJ 07871 (973) 769-2361 wrt1@columbia.edu TRUSTEES
Journal (issue)
West 111th Street, New York NY 10025 TREASURER John Cianciulli 60 Alpine Road, Sussex NJ 07461 ASSISTANT...of the FranklinOgdensburg, New Jersey area is invited to join the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society...John Cianciulli, Treasurer FOMS 60 Alpine Road Sussex NJ 07461 www.FOMSNJ.org The contents of The Picking...Bostwick Tema J. Hecht 600 W. 1 llth St., #1 IB New York NY 10025 EDITORIAL BOARD John L. Baum Peter...twice each year, in March and September, by the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society, Inc. (FOMS)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen, Harold and...mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen, Harold and...Andradite, Michigan, 345 Anglesite, Colorado, 308; New Hampshire, 415 Ankerite, Colorado, 308 Anthony Robert...Colorado, 308; New Hampshire, 416 Barbosa, C., see In Memoriam Barite, Colorado, 308; New Mexico, 385;...Colorado, 309 Braunite, Colorado, 309 Brochantite, New Hampshire, 416 Brookite, Dodo Mine, Subpolar Urals
Journal (issue)
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
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)
07826 TREASURER John Cianciulli 60 Alpine Road, Sussex, NJ 07461 ASSISTANT TREASURER Stephen C. Misiur...of the FranklinOgdensburg, New Jersey area is invited to join the Franklin-Ogdensburg MineralogicalSociety...John Cianciulli, Treasurer FOMS 60 Alpine Road Sussex, NJ 07461 www.FOMSNJ.org The contents of The Picking...International License. THE PICKIMG TABLE JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN - OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY, IMC. THE...twice each year, in March and September, by the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society, Inc. (FOMS)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Multiple length scale growth spirals on metamorphic graphite {001} surfaces studied by atomic force microscopy...surfaces on single crystals of graphite from a Neoproterozoic marble of the Swakop group, near Wlotzkas...the conditions in, and mechanisms by which these graphite crystals formed during carbonate metamorphism...surrounding calcite, was from a fluid phase at low graphite supersaturation and was dominated by the spiral...order of 100 Å. INTRODUCTION With the advent of new techniques, such as scanning probe microscopy, that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Photographs JanuarylFebruary: Copper, Ray, Pinal County, Arizona. Les Presmyk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...quartz and albite, Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California. Houston Museum of Natural Science...claims, Farncomb Hill, Breckenridge district, Summit County, Colorado. Denver Museum of Natural History specimen...malachite ring, Flambeau mine, Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin. Dan Behnke specimen and photo. NovemberDecember:...calcite, and chalcopyrite, Sweetwater mine, Reynolds County, Missouri. Marvin Rausch specimen, Jeff Scovil
Journal (issue)
ICKIHIE ABLE The JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MiNERALOGICAL SOCIETY /olume 41, No. 2 - Fall...Contributions to the Mineralogy of Sterling Hill New Species: Synchysite Thorutite Schedule of Activities... THE 44TH ANNUAL Franklin-Sterling Hill Mineral and Gem Show Proudly Presented By FRANKLIN M N E R A L THE...THE FRANKLIN MINERAL MUSEUM September 23 & 24, 2000 Saturday: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM Sunday: 10:00 AM - 5:00...5:00 PM i FRANKLIN * FREE PARKING * FRANKLIN SCHOOL - WASHINGTON AVE. off Buckwheat Rd by way of Franklin
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 (article/letter/editorial)
Ba-rich micas from the Franklin Marble, Lime Crest and Sterling Hill, New Jersey Rosenr J. Tn-lcv Department...found in the Franklin Marble at the Lime Crest quarry and at Sterling Hill, both in New Jersey.At Lime...Lime Crest, coarsecalcitedolomite marble is cut by very small veins containing green and colorlessmicas...wt0/0.Smaller muscovite grains in recrystallized marble on vein margins have the lowest Ba and highest...elements that are not typically concentratedin the marble. At Sterling Hill, Ba-rich biotite has beenfound
 
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