Sussexite

A large mass or layer of pale to very pale lavender sussexite, bordered by calcite on both sides, in altered, serpentinized, franklinite-willemite-calcite ore from the North Orebody at Sterling Hill. This specimen once belonged to Robert Shaw, who, as a teenager in the 1960s, used to hitch rides to Franklin to purchase specimens. Decades later it was purchased by Earl R. Verbeek, who entered it into his collection as specimen ERV-1601 and in 2021 donated it to the Franklin Mineral Museum, where it remains on display. Its catalog number is FMM-7368.

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