Mount Salem Quarry

Past Producer in Sussex county in New Jersey, United States with commodities Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken
Sections on this page
  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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021713
MRDS ID DE01099
Record type Site
Current site name Mount Salem Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.60959, 41.31333 (WGS84)
Elevation 244

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sussex(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Unionville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Middletown(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Scranton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rondout(hydrologic unit)

Upper Hudson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Hudson(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Jersey Sussex

Comments on the location information

  • ABANDONED ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1969)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Primary
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Slate Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate
    Rock unit name Martinsburg Formation
    Rock description Martinsburg Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.60959, 41.31333

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BEDDED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1899

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Milton H And Margaret Anderson
    Home office 763 Mountain Ave. Murray Hill, Nj. 07971

Comments on the workings information

  • ABANDONED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KUMMEL, H.B., FIELD MAP OF DECKERTOWN. ON FILE AT NJGS IN TRENTON, NJ.

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1987.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SLATE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1987 Kaeding, Margaret E. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.