Coarsely fibrous white sussexite coating a fracture surface on a slab of lean ore (calcite with scattered willemite) from Sterling Hill. The back of the specimen is also coated with sussexite, and willemite veinlets cut the calcite parallel to the sussexite-bearing faces. Its location in the Sterling mine is not known, but like SSX16 this is a large and impressive display specimen of sussexite from the SPEX/Gerstmann collection. It is on exhibit at the Franklin Mineral Museum and is cataloged as FMM-1442.
Identifier: SSX17c Locality: Sterling mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg Specimen size: 16 x 11 x 5.5 cm Photo credit: Earl R. Verbeek