Retired New Jersey zinc mine reopened as museum reveals glowing fluorescent tunnels and world's largest rock collection
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Sterling Hill Mining Museum in Ogdensburg, New Jersey, a retired zinc mine, now welcomes visitors to walk through glowing 'Rainbow Tunnel' passages where willemite and calcite ore fluoresce neon green and electric red under UV light, and houses the Thomas S. Warren Museum of Fluorescence with over 700 fluorescent mineral specimens—the world's largest public collection.
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