INTRODUCTION

Sources of material

 

Acknowledgments

 

Bibliography
(1-50)

 

Bibliography
(51-100)

 

Bibliography
(101-150)

 

Bibliography
(151-200)

 

Bibliography
(201-250)

 

Bibliography
(251-285)

 

Appendix

 

  Bibliography (51-100)
51. Jackson, C. T., Description and analysis of allanite from Franklin, N.J.: American Assoc. Adv. Science Proc., 4th meeting, 1850, pages 323–824, 1851; Boston Society of Natural History Proc., volume 3, page 326, 1851.
52. Jackson, C. T., On the manufacture of zinc white: American Assoc. Adv. Science Proc., 4th meeting, 1850, pages 335–387, 1851; Boston Society of Natural History Proc., volume 3, page 321, 1850, and volume 4, pages 295–290, 1853. Describes the mines and the processes of manufacture of the products.

 

1851

53. Henry, T. H., On the white blende of New Jersey, U.S.: Philos. Magazine, 4th series, volume 1, page 23; abstract in American Journal of Science, 2d series, volume 12, page 221. Analysis of colorless sphalerite (cleiophane) from Franklin.
54. Harrington, A. C., Metamorphic condition of a part of the large vein of franklinite in New Jersey: American Assoc. Adv. Science Proc. 6th meeting, 1851, pages 241–242, 1852. Describes the contact action of a pegmatite dike on the vein.

 

1852

55. Blake, W. P., On the occurrence of crystalline zinc oxyd as a furnace product in New Jersey: American Journal of Science, 2d series, volume 13, pages 417–418.
56. Blake, W. P., Mineralogical notices: American Journal of Science, 2d series, volume 14, page 105. Describes the mode of occurrence of zincite.
57. Camac, W., Analysis of fowlerite: American Journal of Science, 2d series, volume 14, pages 418–410.
58. Jackson, C. T., Report of the New Jersey Zinc Co. (See page 10.) Geologic report by Jackson. Estimate of ore in sight, etc. Analysis of franklinite by Dickerson.
59. Farrington, A. C., Historical sketch of the zinc mines of New Jersey, in Report of the New Jersey Zinc Co., page 16. The only accurate account of the early and traditional workings of the deposit.
60. Rammelsberg, C. F., Mineralanalysen; Rhodonite: Poggendorff’s Annalen, Band 85, page 297.
61. Tamnau, Friedrich, [Occurrence of fowlerite]: Deutsche geol. Gesell. Zeitschr., Hand 4, page 10.

 

1853

62. Dana, J. D., Algerite: American Journal of Science, 2d series, volume 15, page 440. Regards algerite as an alteration product of scapolite.

 

1854

63. Whitney, J. D., Chemical composition of the minerals algerite and apatite: American Journal of Science, 2d series, volume 17, pages 206–210. A new analysis confirms Dana’s conclusion (62) .
64. Hunt, T. S., Remarks on the mineral species algerite: American Journal of Science, 2d series, volume 17, pages 351–352. Upholds the validity of the species.
65. Dana, J. D., On the alteration of scapolite: American Journal of Science, 2d series, volume 18, page 272. Classes algerite as an alteration of scapolite.
66. Kenngott, G. A., Mineralogische Notizen, 9te Folge; 4, Jeffersonit, Krystallform desselben: K. Akad. Wiss. Wien Sitzungsber., Band 12, page 26.
67. Whitney, J. D., The metallic wealth of the United States, page 348. Gives a vague geologic sketch of the ore bed at Sterling Hill. Regards the white limestone as metamorphic Silurian.
68. Kitchell, William, General remarks on the physical geography and geologic formation of Sussex County: New Jersey Geological Survey First Ann. Rept., for 1854, page 43, 1855. Describes the deposits at Franklin and Sterling Hill, including the minerals franklinite and zincite. Gives an incomplete section of the formations at Franklin.
68a. Jackson, C. T., [Informal communication]: Boston Soc. Natural History Proc., volume 4, pages 308–309. Gives the date of the earliest working of the Sterling mines.

 

1855

69. Brush, G. J., Franklinite: American Journal of Science, 2d series, volume 19, page 360. Note concerning the formula of franklinite.
70. Dauber, H., Untersuchungen an Mineralien der Sammlung des Herrn Dr. Krantz in Bonn: Poggendorff’s Annalen, Band 94, pages 398–411. Determines the triclinic form of fowlerite (page 402).
71. Jenzsch, Gustav, Fluor im Kalkspath und Aragonit: Poggendorff’s Annalen, Band 96, pages 145–151. Shows the presence fluorine in the calcite gangue of zincite
72. Kitchell, William, Report on the northern division of the State: New Jersey Geological Survey Second Ann. Rept., for 1855, page 111, 1856. Describes the white limestone as cut by intrusions of granite and syenite. Regards the white limestone as of the same age as the gneiss and older than the blue limestone.

 

1858

73. Breithaupt, August, Heschreibung neuer Mineralien; Spartait: Berg- und huttenm. Zeitung, Band 17, page 53. Gives the name to the manganese calcite of Sterling Hill.

 

1859

74. Rammelsberg, C. F., Ueber die wahre Zusammensetzung des Franklinits und die Isodimorphie der Monoxyde und Sesquioxyde: Poggendorff’s Annalen, Band 107, pages 312–322. New analyses and a long discussion lead him to the rejection of the spinel formula for franklinite. (See Rammelsberg (93).)
75. (Anonymous), Franklinite iron ores; their uses and quantity: Mining Magazine, volume 10, pages 106–108. Paper not seen.

 

1860

75. Blake, W. P., Analysis of red oxyd of zinc–zincite: Min. Magazine, 2d series, volume 2, pages 94–95 (1861). Analysis of very pure material from a large crystal.
76. Brush, G. J., [Analysis of franklinite]; American Journal of Science, 2d series, volume 29, page 871.
77. Eliot, C. W., and Storer, F. H., On the impurities of commercial zinc, with special reference to the residue insoluble in dilute acids, to sulphur, and to arsenic: American Acad. Arts and Science Mem., volume 8, pages 57–96, 1860 [1861]. Zinc made from zincite is shown to be relatively highly impure, containing traces of copper, arsenic, sulphur, lead, and tin.
78. Mason, C., Report of the special committee on franklinite: American Inst. Trans., 1859–60, pages 565–569. Discussion of the properties of the so-called franklinite metal, a manganiferous cast-iron then made at Franklin.
79. Rammelsberg, C. F., Handbuch der Mineralchemie. Analyses of polyadelphite from Franklin, page 693. Analysis of manganese calcite from Franklin by Richter, page 209. (See Jenzsch (71).) Analysis of ceylonite spinel, by Vogel, page 163.
80. Steffens, Dr., and Dahlgren, J. A., Der Franklinit als Eisenerz: Berg- und huttenm. Zeitung, Jahrg. 19, pages 463–465; Sci. American, volume 2, page 66, 1860. Describes the manufacture of franklinite metal. (See Mason (78).) Gives a resume of accounts of the Franklin deposits; not very accurate.

 

1861

81. Alger, Francis, [On zincite from Mine Hill, Franklin, Sussex County, N.J.]: Boston Society of Natural History Proc., volume 6, page 145. Discussion of the cause of the color, which is held due to manganese.
82. Cook, G. H., Note on the probable age of the white limestone at Sussex and Franklin zinc mines, New Jersey: American Journal of Science, 2d series, volume 32, pages 208–209. Discusses the nature of the contact with the gneiss and with the Cambrian quartzite.
83. Hunt, T. S., Allanite: Boston Society of Natural History Proc., volume 8, page 57. Analysis of material reported by Jackson (51).
84. The Franklinite case, New York. Report of the testimony offered in the first suit of the New Jersey Zinc Co. vs. the New Jersey Franklinite Co., etc. Gives many facts about the early workings of the mines. Testimony by Blake, Farrington, Jackson, Kitchell, Cook, and others.

 

1862

85. Des Cloizeaux, Alfred, Note sur la forme cristalline et les proprietes optiques de la tephroite: Annales des mines, 6th series, volume 2, pages 339–342; Mineralogie, volume 1, pages 69–70. First determination of the form of tephroite, with a figure. The crystals were at first mistaken for rhodonite.
86. Deville, Henri, [Analysis of tephroite], in Des Cloizeaux, Alfred, Mineralogie, volume 1, page 38.

 

1864

87. Brush, G. J., On tephroite: American Journal of Science, 2d series, volume 37, pages 66–70. Three new analyses and a summary of the properties of tephroite, which he shows conforms to the olivine formula.
88. Jackson, C. T., Notice of the death of Francis Alger, of Boston: Boston Society of Natural History Proc., volume 10 [for 1864], pages 2–6, 1865. Notes Alger’s part in making known the Franklin minerals (page 3).

 

1865

89. Shepard, C. U., and Tyler, S. W., Analysis of a carbonate of lime and manganese (spartaite of Breithaupt) from Sterling, Sussex County, N.J.: American Journal of Science, 2d series, volume 39, pages 174–175. Similar to the material of Jenzsch (71) and of Richter (80). Shepard calls it calcimangite, a name never again used.

 

1866

90. Credner, Hermann, Beschreibung von Mineralvorkommen in Nordarnerika; c, Franklinit und Rothzinkerz im krystallinischen Kalksteine: Berg- u. huttenm. Zeitung, Jahrg. 25, pages 29–80. Good description of the geology of the deposits, with some notes on the minerals.
91. Fizeau, A. H. L., [Expansion of zincite by heat]: Compt. Rend., volume 62, pages 1146–1147; Poggendorff’s Annalen, Band 128, page 587.
92. Von Kobell, Franz, Ueber Franklinit und Thomsonit: Journal prakt. Chemie, Band 98, pages 129–136. Discussion of formula and new analysis, supporting the spinel ratio.

 

1867

93. Rammelsberg, C. F., Ueber die Zusammensetzung des Franklinits: Poggendorff’s Annalen, Band 130, pages 146–149. Gives new analyses, rejects previous results, and adopts the spinel formula. (See Rammelsberg (74).)

 

1868

94. Dana, J. D., System of mineralogy, 5th edition, page 776. Repeats the list given in former edition with a few added names, making 39 species then recorded.
95. Brush, G. J., On sussexite, a new borate from Mine Hill, Franklin Furnace, Sussex County, N.J.: American Journal of Science, 2d series, volume 46, pages 240–243; Yale Bicent. Pub., Contr. to Mineralogy and Petrography, pages 33–36, 1901. Gives a description and analysis of this new species.
96. Cook, G. H., Geology of New Jersey. (See especially chapter 2, Zinc ores, pages 69 et seq.) Notes on calamine, franklinite, zincite, and willemite. Maps and sections of the mines, but no general description of the mineralogy. Supports Kitchell’s view of the Azoic age of the white limestone. Gives full descriptions of that formation and its relation to the gneiss. All the gneiss, together with the included beds of iron and zinc ores, is assigned to the group of metamorphic sediments.
97. Seymour, F., List of minerals in New Jersey: New Jersey Geological Survey Geology of New Jersey, appendix D, pages 743–750. Gives a list of 41 minerals found at Franklin or at Sterling Hill.
98. Mixter, W. G., On willemite. and tephroite: American Journal of Science, 2d series, volume 46, pages 230–232. Two analyses of willemite and one of tephroite.

 

1870

99. Roepper, W. T., Notice of some minerals from New Jersey: American Journal of Science, 2d series, volume 50, pages 35–38. First description of the mineral afterward called roepperite and one of a manganesian dolomite, with analyses of both.

 

1871

100. Brush, G. J., On gahnite from Mine Hill, Franklin Furnace, N.J.: American Journal of Science, 2d series, volume 1, pages 28–29; Yale Bicent. Pub., Contr. to Mineralogy and Petrography, pages 42–44, 1901. Describes crystals of unusual habit, with analyses by J. S. Adam. Crystal figures in the reprint only.

 

 


 
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