Lime Crest Quarry
Sparta Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
A lime and marble quarry which produced a wide range of mineral specimens.
Mindat lists 48 minerals from this location, including one for which it is the type locality – fluoro-tremolite. The site produced a range of fine mineral specimens, including Axinite, Chondrodite, Norbergite, Phlogopite, Spinel, and Titanite.
It would have originally been a small limestone quarry, for slaked lime to be spread onto farm fields.
Later, the site was used for grit and calcium for chicken feed, of all things!
At one point, Thomas Edison owned the lease on the site, primarily using the limestone for cement.
The site was flooded for a number of years, but more recently Braen Stone has dewatered the site and is extracting aggregates from the site.
Further reading
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-5405.html
- https://eu.njherald.com/story/news/2016/10/19/history-sparta-s-lime-crest/4118325007/
We may have specimens from other locales around New Jersey including:
New Jersey- Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
- Lime Crest Quarry, Sparta Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
- Riverside Quarry, Woodland Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
- Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
- Upper New Street Quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
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