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Page10 - Rare, Fluorescent Franklin & US Minerals

For Sale

The minerals can be purchased using personal checks, money orders, and Paypal. My address is Stuart Schneider, P.O. Box 64, Teaneck, NJ 07666 and my Paypal name and email address is Stuarts1031@ erols.com (no spaces). Postage and handling, and insurance (if you want it) will be added to your order once the weight is figured. I mail using the US Postal Service. Email me to reserve the item numbers that you want.

Terms: You can return any item to me within 10 days for any reason. If I misdescribed it, I will refund your postage both ways. If you are dissatisfied, you pay postage both ways. All photos are taken under daylight and Short Wave Ultraviolet (I use a Super Bright brand light). If your light is more than a few years old, the item may look bluer than it looks here.

Margarite crystals with mica from the Franklin quarry, Franklin, NJ. Margarite is a blue-green mica that was sparsely found in a 75 foot wide area that is now buried. The margarite fluoresces weak white SW. It weighs 2.1 oz. and is 1.8 x 1.4 x 1.3 inches. $35.00, item #3722


A Friedelite showpiece - Cabinet-sized gemmy example of liver brown-red friedelite with willemite and sphalerite from the Sterling Hill mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, NJ. The willemite fluoresces green SW and the sphalerite fluoresces blue & orange LW. It weighs 2 lb. 3.0 oz. and is 4.5 x 4.2 x 2.4 inches. $80.00, item #1611	Beefsteak friedelite with willemite from the Sterling Hill mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, NJ. The willemite fluoresces green SW. It weighs 10.2 oz. and is 3.8 x 3.4 x 1.4 inches. $48.00, item #1830


Barite with hendricksite, a few dots of fluorapatite, and andradite from the Franklin Mill site, Franklin, Sussex County, NJ. The barite fluoresces white SW, the willemite fluoresces green SW, and the fluorapatite fluoresces orange SW. It weighs 7.5 oz. and is 2.8 x 1.5 x 1.5 inches. $28.00, item #3713	Red willemite and andradite from the Mill site, Franklin, Sussex County, NJ. Willemite fluoresces green SW. It weighs 2 lb. 3.3 oz. and is 5.4 x 3.5 x 2.2 inches. $26.00, item #1809

Margarite crystals with mica from the Franklin quarry, Franklin, NJ. Margarite is a blue-green mica that was sparsely found in a 75 foot wide area that is now buried. The margarite fluoresces weak white SW. It weighs 2.9 oz. and is 2.0 x 1.8 x 1.2 inches. $30.00, item #3721


Large wollastonite with calcite from the Noble pit area of the Sterling Hill mine in Ogdensburg, Sussex County, NJ. The wollastonite fluoresces orange-yellow and the calcite fluoresces red-orange SW. It weighs 1 lb. 7.0 oz. and is 5.0 x 3.7 x 2.2 inches. $26.00, item #3685	A European miner’s light and drill in aluminum on a bakelite base. It dates to the 1930s. It is 5.5 x 4.7 x 3.1 inches. $48.00, item #deskdrill


Tremolite from the Franklin quarry, Franklin, Sussex County, NJ. The tremolite fluoresces creamy white SW. It weighs 1 lb. 2.0 oz. and is 4.2 x 2.8 x 1.7 inches. $14.00, item #1721	Diopside & fluorite from the Franklin quarry, Franklin, Sussex County, NJ. The diopside fluoresces bright pale blue SW. It weighs 3.6 oz. and is 3.0 x 2.2 x 1.5 inches. $16.00, item #1724


A terminated franklinite crystal surrounded by smaller crystals and zincite from the Sterling Hill mine in Ogdensburg, Sussex County, NJ. This is a beauty under daylight and both sides are shown. It weighs 3.1 oz. and is 2.2 x 1.7 x 1.0 inches. $15.00, item #1518	Green diopside & fluorite from the Franklin quarry, Franklin, Sussex County, NJ. The diopside fluoresces bright pale blue SW. It weighs 1.2 oz. and is 2.8 x 1.3 x 0.7 inches. $18.00, item #1725


Gahnite - discovered in 2005 in one area of the Passaic pit, Sterling Hill mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, NJ. No more to be found. This is a beauty with several dipyramidal crystals. The calcite covering the crystals was etched away. It weighs 6.3 oz. and is 2.8 x 2.1 x 1.7 inches. Item #3671, $14.00	Blue-gray areas of fluorapatite (very nice brightness and coverage), willemite, & andradite from the Franklin mine, Franklin, Sussex County, NJ. Fluorapatite fluoresces orange SW and willemite fluoresces green SW. The piece weighs 1 lb. and is 5.0 x 3.3 x 1.5 inches. $18.00, item #3565