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D.L. & W. Railroad Quarry

Past Producer in Sussex county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Stone, 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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021702
MRDS ID DE01085
Record type Site
Current site name D.L. & W. Railroad Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.73792, 40.94306 (WGS84)
Elevation 244
Relative position WITHIN 100 FT OF ABANDONER R.R. TRACKS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sussex(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Stanhope(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newark(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 Sussex

Comments on the location information

  • PART OF CRANBERRY STATE PARK. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Granite Ore
Garnet Gangue
Orthoclase Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Granite;Potassic Feldspar Gneiss
    Rock description Granite;Potassic Feldspar Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Precambrian
    Chronological age 1000000000

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.73792, 40.94306
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BEDDED
    Strike N30W
    Dip 30NE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category State Park

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner D. L. And W. Railroad
  • Type Owner
    Owner State Of New Jersey
    Home office New Jersey

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.405HA

Comments on the workings information

  • SPUR FROM MAIN TRACKS OF RR WENT INTO QUARRY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEWIS, J.V. 1909, BUILDING STONES OF NEW JERSEY, IN ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1908; PP. 74-75.

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1986.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GNEISSIC TEXTURE IN MICROPERTHITE, ORTHOCLASE, QUARTZ & OCCASIONAL AUGITE. DARK BANDS HAVE

Reporter information

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

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