43 new fluorescent minerals to the Franklin/Sterling Hill Showcase

1) Today I have added 43 new specimens to the Franklin/Sterling Hill Showcase page of my website.  Some sample photographs are included above.  I recently acquired a very nice collection of Franklin/Sterling Hill specimens.  This collection included such Franklin mine classics as margarosanite, “third find” as well as fibrous wollastonite, esperite, barite, xonotlite, prehnite, roeblingite, manganaxinite, 3 and 4-color specimens, hardystonite crystals etc.   This collection also included the well-known “Snoopy” piece of calcite, hardystonite and esperite featured in Manny Robbins’s first book (#61, plate 16).  Specimens from the Sterling Hill mine included such classics as “beta” willemite, exsolution willemite, calcite/barite, mylonitic ore etc.

2) It’s not often quality specimens like these from the Franklin mine become available for purchase.  My advice would be to purchase them while you can!   

3) I am currently photographing specimens from a new mine in Arizona that I am very excited about.  Information about this new mine will be included on my website when the time comes to release specimens for sale.  As always, those on my email list will be notified the moment these new specimens are uploaded to my site.