Sterling Hill Mine Tour & Museum
- Address
- 30 Plant St, Ogdensburg, NJ, 07439
- Phone
- 973-209-7212
- Website
- sterlinghillminingmuseum.org
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- Services
- Mine Tour Mining Museum Museum of Fluorescence Observatory Rock & Fossil Discovery Centers Mineral Collecting
- Products
- Educational Events Guest Speakers Classroom Visits Snack Bar Museum Store.
About this area
Sterling Hill Mine Tour & Museum is the only tourist attraction listed in Ogdensburg, NJ.
What's nearby: 17 business equipment repair services, 10 hardware stores, and 3 roofers & roofing contractors within walking distance.
About
Most everything manmade has something to do with mining. At the Sterling Hill Mining Museum we'll show you just how it's done. From drilling and blasting to the processing of the ore, we’ve got it all! Come take a ¼ mile underground walking educational adventure into the 4th oldest mine in the country and the last working underground mine in NJ. Along the way you will see a mining equipment history display, a drilling and blasting demonstration and the world famous fluorescent “Rainbow Tunnel” where everybody gets to take home a fluorescent mineral specimen. Right here in NJ is one of the worlds richest zinc ore deposits. This area boasts over 350 minerals, about 70 of which fluoresce, that's about 10% of the known minerals in the world right here in NJ. As well as the richest fluorescent mineral deposit in the world. You can collect minerals from all over the world, including fluorescence, yourself any day the museum is open.Also available is our Rock Discovery Center, Fossil Discovery Center and onsite Observatory. See web site for a full schedule of event dates and times.
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Review
Tour is interesting for young children but situate yourself so you don't end up with the older man as your tour guide. He is very opinionated and doesn't really like children. During the tour visitors are offered a flourescent rock to take home. My four year old set it down for a minute and the tour guide picked it up. At the end of the tour I asked for it back and was told, "he shouldn't have put it down, too bad and that's life". Really? Nice ending for a little kid. The man is constantly criticizing Americans and this culture and saying how great Americ
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