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Allegheny Geology Field Trip

Sterling Hill Mining Museum, New Jersey

The Sterling Hill Mining Museum located near Franklin, New Jersey offers a spectacular opportunity for the Mineralogy & Petrology and Geochemistry classes to explore metamorphic rocks and to learn applications in economic geology.

Petrology and Geochemistry students along with George Elling '64 (front right) standing in front of a makeshift mine entrance used as a movie setEntering the real shaft of the Sterling Hill mineInside the Sterling Hill mine

Overview of the economic minerals found at the mineClose up of the ore - franklinite and willemite (zinc minerals) in calciteFluorescent minerals on display in the Warren Museum