[Rockhounds] New Jersey collecting opportunities?

[Tom Corson]

This email could just as well be titled "A Trip Down Memory Lane"....

I will be attending the upcoming Maine Pegmatite Workshop in early June and
am planning on spending the week prior in NJ.

I was born in NJ and caught the mineralogy/rockhounding bug there when I was
about 10 years old (a very long time ago! :-). Some of my first trips as a
kid were to Franklin (the Buckwheat), New Street, and Sayreville (for
Marcasite). I left NJ at 18 to go to college and never returned. Hence, I
haven't collected in NJ since I was about 16 years old, but it's minerals
have always held a special place in my heart.

Any information that you folks have for me on current collecting
opportunities/ideas would be most appreciated. I am going to do the obvious
things like go to both the Franklin and Sterling Hill museums, but what I
really want to do is some serious collecting.

I will be in NJ from Memorial Day (5/26) through that Thursday (5/29).

Thanks in advance,
TC

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