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Dunn 
On-Line

Selected chapters from the most comprehensive scientific work on the area's minerals, Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey: the world's most magnificent minerals deposits, by Pete J. Dunn.

Palache
On-Line

A complete on-line copy of the classic 1935 text by Charles Palache, The Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey.

 

 

Franklin Mineral Museum

Website of the Franklin Mineral Museum, located on Evans Road in Franklin, NJ.

 

 

Sterling Hill Mining Museum

Website of the Sterling Hill Mining Museum, located in Ogdensburg, NJ.

 

 

Thomas S. Warren Museum of Fluorescence

A new museum featuring world-class fluorescence exhibits. Located on the grounds of the Sterling Hill Mining Museum in Ogdensburg, NJ.

Fluorescent Mineral Society

Website of the Fluorescent Mineral Society; site has many links, and much information on mineral fluorescence worldwide. 

Mineralogical Society of America

Website of the MSA; a non-profit professional organization. Much educational material and links on this site. Also, see their 'Collector's Corner'.

DVESS

Website of the Delaware Valley Earth Science Society. DVESS regularly organizes special collecting trips (see Trotter collecting) in the Franklin area. 

Fluorescent
Ilímaussaq
Our new photo gallery of fluorescent minerals from recent discoveries at Ilímaussaq Greenland. No zinc, but an astonishing variety of fluorescent minerals are now coming to light.
 

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