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Lower Harmony Quarry

Past Producer in Warren county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Marble, Dimension
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021694
MRDS ID DE01066
Record type Site
Current site name Lower Harmony Quarry
Alternate or previous names Warren Marble Quarry Company
Related records 10082298

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.13517, 40.73833 (WGS84)
Elevation 152

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Easton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Allentown(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Delaware-Musconetcong(hydrologic unit)

Upper Delaware(hydrologic accounting unit)

Delaware-Mid Atlantic Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Jersey Warren

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1973)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Marble, Dimension Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Marble Ore
Graphite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Precambrian
    Chronological age 1000000000
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble
    Rock unit name Franklin
    Rock description Franklin
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Precambrian
    Chronological age 1000000000

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.13517, 40.73833
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • MARBLE IS GREYISH WHITE WITH SOME HAVING A BANDED APPEARANCE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1872
Year of last production 1908

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Warren Marble Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Fred Grotenhuis
    Home office Rd2, Phillipsburg, Nj

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.405HA

Comments on the workings information

  • HIGHEST WALL APPROX 30 FEET HIGH BUT LITTLE BEDROCK LEFT MOSTLY DIRT AND BOULDERS.

Comments on development

  • IN 1872 COMPANY CUT, SAWED, DRESSED AND POLISHED THE STONE AT THE QUARRY; MOST ORDERS WERE FROM PA.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEWIS, J.V. 1909, BUILDING STONES OF NEW JERSEY P 114 IN ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1908.

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1872, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST OF NEW JERSEY FOR THE YEAR 1872, PP 26-27.

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1986 Simonds, Raymond E. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

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