About this Website

This Website contains a copy of The Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey, re-formatted for the Web.

Written by Charles Palache, and published by the US Geological Survey in 1935 as USGS Professional Paper #180, it carefully describes what was then known of the remarkable minerals from the Franklin-Sterling Zn-Mn-Fe deposits.

Though some of the science is out of date (see Dunn, 1995, for a comprehensive modern reference), the work remains a classic locality study in mineralogy, superbly done.

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Herb Yeates
January 2001


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