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Sterling Hill

Name: Sterling Hill
Address: US

41.0823°N -74.6093°W · Q17088970

One English word in this atlas traces back to Sterling Hill. It sits in United States.

All of United States

Pinned here

sterlinghillitenoun · 1981

Well attested

Named for the hill, not the museum that now occupies the mine inside it.

Sterlinghillite was described in 1981 from the Sterling Hill mine at Ogdensburg in Sussex County, New Jersey, the sister deposit to Franklin. Zinc mining there ended in 1986 and the workings reopened as the Sterling Hill Mining Museum. The ore is famous for fluorescing brilliantly under ultraviolet light.

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