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   Franklin and Sterling Mines                                  Page 7

       PHOSPHATES, ARSENATES

  M0005

  APATITE

  Sterling Mine, Ogdensburg, 

  Sussex Co., NJ, USA

  Large blue apatite prisms in marble with

  amphibole. Fluoresces blue under short-   

  wave utlraviolet light. This is assumed to

  be fluorapatite.

   (Photo by Gary Grenier)

   Specimen size: approx. 8.8 cm  X  7.5 cm  X  5 cm

 XX500

 TURNEAUREITE

 Franklin, Sussex County, NJ

 Pale grey-green turneaureite with andradite

 in salmon calcite. Highly fluorescent.

 Turneaureite is an uncommon chlorine bear-

 ing member of the apatite group known from

 Franklin, Langban, Sweden, and  Balmat, NY.

    Specimen size - approx  19 cm X 9 cm X 5 cm

    Under short wave ultraviolet

  M0173

  KOETTIGITE

  Sterling Mine, Ogdensburg, 

  Sussex Co., NJ, USA

  Radiating blue-green koettigite crystal

  sprays on a fracture surface in franklinite,

  sphalerite, calcite.

   (Photo by Gary Grenier)

   Specimen size: approx. 13.8 cm  X  6.3 cm  X  3.8 cm

  M0228

  SARKINITE

  Sterling Mine, Ogdensburg, 

  Sussex Co., NJ, USA

  Orange sarkinite crystals with native copper

   on a slip surface in Sterling ore. 1340 pillar,

   1300 level, Sterling Mine, 1978.

   (Photo by Gary Grenier)

   Specimen size: approx. 4.4 cm  X  3.1 cm  X  1.9 cm

  M0006

  CARYOPILITE, HEDYPHANE,

  ALLACTITE

  Franklin,  Sussex Co., NJ, USA

  Massive brown caryopilite, yellow hedyphane

   vein filling in lean franklinite, willemite ore.

   Small brown allactite crystals are present

   in a  small vug in the caryopilte.

   (Photo by Gary Grenier)

   Specimen size: approx. 7.5 cm  X  5 cm  X  3.8 cm

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