White to cream-colored fibrous sussexite from Franklin, coating a fracture surface in high-grade gneissic ore composed of franklinite and pale green willemite. The fibrous sussexite is locally intergrown with pinkish cherty sussexite. Specimens like this from Franklin are rare; this was no. 234 in the Richard Hauck collection and is now in the collection of Stephen Phillips. It may be from the same find as SSX27.
Identifier: SSX14a Locality: Franklin mine, Franklin Specimen size: 12 x 10 x 4 cm Photo credit: Earl R. Verbeek