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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.

A white, chalky opaque piece with a coating of hydrozincite. From Phoenixville, PA. Fluoresces bright blue white. It weighs 1 lb. 8.5 oz. and is 5.2 x 3.0 x 2.6 inches. $24.00, item #13


Fluorapatite with quartz, feldspar & muscovite from the Harding pegmatite, Taos County, New Mexico. This fluorapatite fluoresces yellow SW and brighter yellow MW. It weighs 5.0 oz. and is 2.0 x 2.0 x 1.8 inches. $35.00, item #605	Scheelite in matrix from Old Mine Park, Trumbull, CT. Scheelite fluoresces bright pale blue SW. It weighs 1.4 oz. and is 1.8 x 1.1 x 0.8 inches. $22.00, item #221 (RESERVED 7/12/10)

Sphalerites


Sphalerite, calcite, and willemite from the Sterling Hill mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, NJ. The sphalerite fluoresces orange LW and the willemite fluoresces green SW. It weighs 14.8 oz. and is 4.2 x 2.4 x 1.8 inches. $30.00, item #1826	Big & Beautiful - Heart shaped franklinite (left side) surrounded by sphalerite. Beautiful sparkling sphalerite crystals with willemite and frankinite from the Franklin mine, Franklin, Sussex County, NJ. The sphalerite fluoresces orange LW & SW. The willemite fluoresces green SW. It weighs 2 lb. 5.0 oz. and is 7.0 x 4.4 x 1.5 inches. $60.00, item #1799


Sphalerite and willemite sandwich (sphalerite outside, willemite inside) from the Sterling Hill mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, NJ. The sphalerite fluoresces orange LW and the willemite fluoresces green SW. It weighs 1 lb. 15.0 oz. and is 4.2 x 3.5 x 1.9 inches. $36.00, item #1825	Two-color sphalerite with willemite from the Taylor Road site, Franklin, Sussex County, NJ. The sphalerite fluoresces orange & blue SW & LW and the willemite fluoresces green SW. It weighs 1 lb. 3.8 oz. and is 3.5 x 3.2 x 1.7 inches. $22.00, item #3723

Large sphalerite and willemite from the Franklin mine, Franklin, Sussex County, NJ. The sphalerite fluoresces orange and blue SW & LW and the willemite fluoresces green SW. It weighs 2 lbs. 10.0 oz. and is 3.8 x 3.6 x 2.2 inches. $120.00, item #3758


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. $74.00, 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. $44.00, item #1830


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	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. $46.00, item #deskdrill

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. $12.00, item #1518