2009FallPT:Layout 1 8/27/2009 10:21 AM Page 1 JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY Volume 50, No. 2 – Fall 2009 $20.00 U.S. SPECIAL EDITION TH 50 ANNIVERSARY The contents of The Picking Table are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. 2009FallPT:Layout 1 8/27/2009 10:21 AM Page 2 The Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society, Inc. OFFICERS and STAFF 2009 PRESIDENT SLIDE COLLECTION CUSTODIAN Bill Truran Edward H. Wilk 2 Little Tarn Court, Hamburg, NJ 07419 202 Boiling Springs Avenue (973) 827-7804 E. Rutherford, NJ 07073 [email protected] (201) 438-8471 VICE-PRESIDENT TRUSTEES Richard Keller C. Richard Bieling (2009-2010) 13 Green Street, Franklin, NJ 07416 Richard C. Bostwick (2009-2010) (973) 209-4178 George Elling (2008-2009) [email protected] Steven M. Kuitems (2009-2010) Chester S. Lemanski, Jr. (2008-2009) SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT Lee Lowell (2008-2009) Joe Kaiser Earl Verbeek (2008-2009) 40 Castlewood Trail, Sparta, NJ 07871 Edward H. Wilk (2008-2009) (973) 729-0215 Fred Young (2008-2009) [email protected] LIAISON WITH THE EASTERN FEDERATION SECRETARY OF MINERALOGICAL AND LAPIDARY Tema J. Hecht SOCIETIES (EFMLS) 600 West 111TH Street, Apt. 11B Delegate Joe Kaiser New York, NY 10025 Alternate Richard C. Bostwick (212) 749-5817 (Home) (917) 903-4687 (Cell) COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS [email protected] Auditing William J. Trost Field Trip Warren Cummings TREASURER Historical John L. Baum Denise Kroth Mineral Exchange Richard C. Bostwick 240 Union Avenue Nominating William Kroth Wood-Ridge, NJ 07075 Program Fred Young (201) 933-3029 Swap & Sell Chester S. Lemanski, Jr. [email protected] ASSISTANT TREASURER William Kroth The Picking Table welcomes comments in letters to the editor. Please include your 240 Union Avenue name, title, company address and daytime phone number. Writers should disclose Wood-Ridge, NJ 07075 any connection or relationship with the subject of their comments. We reserve the (201) 933-3029 right to edit letters for length and clarity and to use them in all print and electronic [email protected] editions. Prospective authors should address correspondence to: The Picking Table Attn. Fred Young 234 Warbasse Junction Road Lafayette, NJ 07848 [email protected] The contents of The Picking Table are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. 2009FallPT:Layout 1 8/27/2009 10:21 AM Page 3 Volume 50, No. 2 – Fall 2009 President’s Message, Bill Truran ............................................................2 Publisher From the Editor’s Desk, Fred Young ......................................................3 THE FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC. Fall Activity Schedule, Tema J. Hecht.................................................4-5 Editor New Jersey Earth Science Association Show, FRED YOUNG April 25-26, 2009 , Tema J. Hecht .........................................................5-7 A FOMS Memory, The First Half Century, Fred Young....................8-13 Associate Editors RICHARD C. BOSTWICK Honoring Richard Hauck, Fred Young .....................................................14 MARK BOYER Letters From the Past, George Elling ...................................................15 GEORGE ELLING Flashback... Flash Forward, Chris Luzier .......................................16-17 TEMA J. HECHT STUART SCHNEIDER The Mill Site - Part One, Bernard T. Kozykowski ............................18-20 Photo Editor How Did a Group of Specimens From Franklin, New Jersey End TEMA J. HECHT Up in an Attic in Rocky Mount, North Carolina?, Kenny Gay.......21-23 Coaxing Long-Held Secrets From Precambrian Rocks of the Art Director New Jersey Highlands, Richard A. Volkert and Fred Young...........24-28 DEBBIE YOUNG Some Notes on the Rediscovery of a Novel Fluorescent Mineral Printing Assemblage From the Franklin Mine, Franklin, New Jersey, MOONLIGHT IMAGING Philip M. Persson ..............................................................................29-33 Subscription to The Picking Table is included with mem- Black Ore at the Franklin and Sterling Hill Orebodies, bership in FOMS. For membership, back issues, and infor- mation, write to: Stephen Sanford ...............................................................................34-35 Denise Kroth, Treasurer, FOMS Franklin Mineral Museum’s New Fluorescent Exhibit, 240 Union Avenue Lee Lowell and Paul Shizume ...........................................................36-37 Wood-Ridge, NJ 07075 A Second Occurrence of Genthelvite From Sterling Hill, The Picking Table is the official publication of the Franklin Ogdensburg, New Jersey, Earl R. Verbeek ..........................................38 Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society, Inc. (FOMS), a non profit organization, and is sent to all members. The Picking Mineral Species Found at Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey,...39-40 Table is published twice each year and features articles of Honor Roll of FOMS Presidents, Fred Young......................................41 interest to the mineralogical community that pertain to the Franklin-Ogdensburg, New Jersey area. About the Front Cover Members are encouraged to submit articles for publication. Articles should have substance and be cohesively written and One of the most sought after fluorescent submitted as a double-spaced Microsoft Word document to minerals from Franklin, NJ is margarosanite. One [email protected]. JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY of the most desirable Parker Shaft species is Volume 50, No. 2 – Fall 2009 $20.00 U.S. roeblingite. This 31 pound specimen contains The views and opinions expressed in The Picking Table do both in an epidote-(Pb), formerly known not necessarily reflect those of FOMS or the editors. as hancockite, matrix. There is also some FOMS is a member of the Eastern Federation of Miner- clinohedrite. This specimen was one of the alogical and Lapidary Societies, Inc. (EFMLS). key pieces in the former Robert White collection and we believe it to be the largest of this unusual The Picking Table is printed on acid free and chlorine free association. Blue-fluorescing margarosanite paper. may be seen on the left, with pink-fluorescing SPECIAL EDITION TH margarosanite on the right. The roeblingite is vis- 50 ANNIVERSARY ible in the photo as 5-8 mm diameter “eyes” flu- orescing red. The specimen measures 13 inches by 9 inches by 7 inches. Denise and Bill Kroth Collection. Bill Kroth photo taken with his Nikon FE film camera. The contents of The Picking Table are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. 2009FallPT:Layout 1 8/27/2009 10:21 AM Page 4 President’s Message Bill Truran 2 Little Tarn Court Hamburg, NJ 07419 Greetings from the Museum, so I’d like to see FOMS develop stronger relationships president of the Franklin- with these museums, as well as with the Franklin and Ogdensburg Ogdensburg Mineralogi- historical societies and our political leaders. Strength in numbers cal Society (FOMS) in and diversity of abilities are of enormous benefits in preserving our this 50th year of the heritage. club’s long, healthy life. CONGRATULATIONS TO FOMS---50 YEARS! Having been pressed into This is an auspicious occasion for FOMS - 50 years! This Golden service like a drunken Anniversary is particularly significant because FOMS has helped Limey yanked from a bar the Franklin area, for half a century, to maintain its great traditions and awaking the next day and play an active role in being “The Fluorescent Mineral Capital at sea in the Royal Navy, I of the World,” one of the most diverse mineral localities on our have become enamored planet. While the ores are gone, the legacy remains, and FOMS is with my new duties and a prime conveyor of that legacy. FOMS links the storied past of the look forward to a mutually Franklin/Sterling Hill mining district to a continuous chain of active beneficial relationship. participation in the present. FOMS is a great and th I am honored to be president of FOMS during this Golden Jubilee FOMS 27 President, Bill Truran unique organization. It year. In the span of recorded history, Golden Jubilees were always offers traditional hobby benefits, such as getting new mineral spec- of great importance. They honored the life of a monarch who had imens, taking field trips to new or treasured localities, and meeting ruled for five decades, keeping the land and its people healthy, and new friends with common interest. Additionally, FOMS allows the safe from Mongol hordes and bands of roving thieves. In a deeper experience of learning about the unusual and often unique metaphorical but relevant way, FOMS has performed this role for minerals of the Franklin and Sterling Hill orebodies, knowledge the orebodies and mining traditions of Franklin and Sterling Hill. that is worthy of academic study in the great universities of the world, and can lead from a hobby to a lifelong career. These two mining communities have a rich historical record. There are many immigrant miner families here that can trace their local The speciality I bring to FOMS is my lifelong affiliation with the roots back for a century or more. In 1897, more than 110 years ago, Boro of Franklin. It is my good fortune that I was born and raised the “Great Consolidation” assured that zinc mining would take here, deeply ensconced in a mining family. All my life I have been place here in a methodical, world-class manner. Thirty years before steeped in the lore of the