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The New Jersey Zinc Company was forced to be shut down due to some tax disputes. It was then put for public auction and that is when Dick and Bob Hauck purchased it for $750,000. And they built one of the most enchanting museums ever.
Tourist Attraction
The Hauck brothers converted the mine into a museum and renamed it The Stirling Hill Mine Tour and Museum of Fluorescence in 1989. And in August of 1990, the place was opened for tourists to come and witness the beauty of nature.
Specialty
The mine has a whopping 357 different kinds of minerals that it boasts of. These minerals make up to 10 percent of all the minerals that have ever been known to scientists. And that is not all that is special about the Stirling Hills.
One Of A Kind
The mine has 35 special kinds of minerals that cannot be found in any other part of the whole world. In 1991, the museum was even added to the National Register of Historic Places because of its uniqueness and grandeur.
Bright Minerals
There are brightly colored ores inside the rock that the mine is made up of, the massive limestone deposits. And that just adds to the unique aura of the museum. Never could you have imagined a mine-museum to be so bright and colorful.
Significance
The region that was mined years back to extract copper and zinc was possible to mine only and only because the whole area was made up of malleable limestone which dates back to the Precambrian era, which is said to be 600 million years old.