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Sterling Hill / Franklin (Buckwheat dump), New Jersey

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: Fluorescent willemite, zincite, franklinite on the museum dump.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Precambrian metamorphic

World's fluorescent-mineral capital; fee-dig dumps.

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