Franklin-Sterling Hill Collecting Trip 3

The rocks.

This is what 200+ plus pounds of rock from New Jersey looks like.

Fluorescent calcite (red) and willemite (green).  Matching halves from a rock I split in the Buckwheat Dump, Franklin Mine.  Larger half is 4"x3"x2"

Same specimen, white light.

Calcite, willemite, and hardystonite, also from a split rock, Buckwheat Dump. 4.5"x3.5"x2"

Same specimen, white light.

Fluorescent sphalerite (orange) with minor eyes of calcite and an unknown fluorescent light blue - maybe cleiophane sphalerite?  This piece is kind of an oddball, as the sphalerite is brightest orange under short and mid wave UV, instead of long wave like usual.  Parts are phosphorescent after exposure to long wave as well.  This specimen is also one half of an near-mirror split with another piece - the geologist onsite noticed the sparkle of the sphalerite in my bucket and split it for me with a small chisel.  Buckwheat Dump, 5"x4"x2"

Same specimen, white light.

Fluorescent salmon calcite from the Passaic Pit, Sterling Hill Mine.  Only half of the specimen is pictured, full size piece is 6"x"5"x3"

Same specimen, white light.  You can see the salmon.

Fluorescent calcite and willemite, Passaic Pit. 6"x"3"x4"

Same specimen, white light.  The red is zincite, the black franklinite.

Calcite, willemite, and hydrozincite, Passaic Pit.  4.5"x3.5"x3.5"

Same specimen, white light.