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Franklin Furnace, also known as the Franklin Mine, is a famous mineral location for rare zinc, [1] iron, manganese minerals in old mines in Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. This locale produced more species of minerals (over 300) and more different fluorescent minerals than any other location.
Franklin Mineral Museum. Coordinates: 41.11311°N 74.58831°W. The Franklin Mineral Museum in Franklin, New Jersey is a mineral, geology, and mining museum at the former Franklin Mine. It is located in Sussex County, New Jersey .
July 11, 1991. The Sterling Hill Mine, now known as the Sterling Hill Mining Museum, is a former zinc mine in Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. It was the last working underground mine in New Jersey. It closed in 1986, and became a museum in 1989. Along with the nearby Franklin Mine, it is known for its variety of minerals ...
Franklin is a borough in Sussex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 4,912, [11] a decrease of 133 (−2.6%) from the 2010 census count of 5,045, [20] [21] which in turn reflected a decline of 115 (−2.2%) from the 5,160 counted in the 2000 census.
The company had its origins in northwestern New Jersey in 1848 when two companies were created to exploit the iron and zinc deposits at Franklin and Sterling Hill in Sussex County, New Jersey. The Sussex Zinc and Copper Mining and Manufacturing Corporation was incorporated in 1848 for the purpose of mining zinc, and the New Jersey Exploration ...
The history of Sussex County, New Jersey spans over 13,000 years from the time Paleo Indians arrived after the Wisconsin glacier melted to the present day, and the entire width of the American experience. Before Europeans arrived, the area was a wilderness with large areas of forests and grasslands inhabited by bands of Munsee, a subgroup ...
Edison operated an iron mine in the Franklin-Sterling Hill Mining District [4] near Ogdensburg, New Jersey under the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Co. The Edison mine exploited a large low-grade magnetite deposit which had been mined since the 1770s, [4] which Edison and his engineers ground and concentrated. [5]
The Franklin and Sterling Hill deposits with production of 6.3 million tonnes of zinc, account for 15 percent of all recorded zinc production in the contiguous United States. Major mining began about 1870, and the Sterling Hill mine was the last working underground mine in New Jersey when it closed in 1986. [9] [10]