An irregular vein of dull pinkish-lavender sussexite, ranging from 2 cm to 3 cm in width and tinted brownish orange along its margins, in altered franklinite-willemite ore that has been serpentinized by solutions from the Zero fault and pulverized by movement along that fault. This specimen is from the Ray Latawiec collection of Franklin and Sterling Hill “bands,” purchased in 2013 by the Sterling Hill Mining Museum; it has been cataloged as specimen SHMM-1827, and is on display there.
Identifier: SSX31a Locality: 11 pillar below 2350 level, South limb of the North Orebody, Sterling mine, Ogdensburg Specimen size: 9 x 7 x 3.5 cm Photo credit: Earl R. Verbeek