Franklin-Sterling Hill District

Occurrence in Sussex county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Zinc
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000884
MRDS ID K002900
Record type District
Current site name Franklin-Sterling Hill District
Related records 10307218

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.58289, 41.1 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sussex(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Franklin(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Middletown(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Scranton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rondout(hydrologic unit)

Upper Hudson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Hudson(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Jersey Sussex

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.58289, 41.1

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name FRANKLIN-STERLING HILL DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PINGER, A.W., 1948, GEOLOGY OF THE FRANKLIN-STERLING AREA, SUSSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY: GEOL. SOC. AMERICA, 61ST ANN. MEETING (1948), GUIDEBOOK OF EXCURSIONS, P. 1-14.

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.