WHAT’S HERE
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Local Mining Heritage
View minerals from the Franklin and Sterling Hill mining district, including numerous specimens of the local zinc ore minerals (willemite, franklinite, and zincite).
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Fluorescent Room
A 32-foot-long display showcasing local fluorescent minerals. Discover why the New Jersey State Legislature in 1968 declared Franklin the “Fluorescent Mineral Capital of the World.”
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American Indian Room
A main feature of this room is a large collection of Native American stone tools made by the Lenni Lenape Indians, the earliest inhabitants of what later became New Jersey.
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Fossil Room
The fossil room offers a fine selection of fossil trilobites, dinosaur footprints, a mastodon tusk, and coprolites (fossil dung!) and more.
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Welsh Hall
Visitors will marvel at the diverse collection of worldwide minerals, numbering more than 5,000 specimens in all.
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Mine Replica and Artifacts
See numerous mining-related items such as cap lamps, mill concentrates, pig iron, and artifacts from Thomas Edison’s iron-mining and milling operation on Sparta Mountain.
Gem Sluice & Fossil Dig
Hands-on activity for children of all ages
Much like panning for panning for gold, sluice away sand to reveal hidden “gems”. Or, dig for fossils like a paleontologist, but take them home.
Buckwheat Dump
3.5 acres of rock for collecting
Worldwide fame for some rare mineral finds