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Wawayanda Mine

Past Producer in Sussex county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Iron
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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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021714
MRDS ID DE01100
Record type Site
Current site name Wawayanda Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.3943, 41.21278 (WGS84)
Elevation 305

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sussex(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wawayanda(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

  • RELOCATED ON BASIS OF CONVERSATION WITH RANGER AT WAWAYANDA STATE PARK. THIS MINE MAY BE THE UNDERGROUND EXTENSION OF GREEN MINE. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1954)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • 4,740 TONS OF ORE SHIPPED IN 1880-1881.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Analytical data

Result 1891 ANALYSIS YIELDED 54.33% FE, 12.68% SIO2 AND 0.34% MNO2

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Mixed Gneiss
    Rock description Mixed Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.3943, 41.21278
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip 15-50 DEGREES SE
    Width 6.1M

Comments on the geologic information

  • SYENITE DIKE CUTS ONE OF THE VEINS. THIS MINE MAY BE THE UNDERGROUND COUNTERPART OF GREEN MINE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1854
Year of last production 1891

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Thomas Iron Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner State Of New Jersey, Department Of Environmental Protection
    Home office Labor & Industry Building ,John Fitch Plaza Trenton, Nj. 08625

Comments on the workings information

  • NW DEPOSIT WORKED TO A DEPTH OF 60 FT SECOND DEPOSIT 47 FT SE WAS 2-12 FT WIDE; THIRD DEPOSIT WAS 100 FT SOUTHWEST OF SECOND. EXTENSIVE WORKINGS; 60 X 10' TRENCH EXCAVATED; 12 PITS IN A N-S LINE.

Comments on development

  • MINE WAS OPENED BY ORAM & DECAMP

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAYLEY, WILLIAM S., 1910. IRON MINES AND MINING IN NEW JERSEY, VOL. VII OF THE FINAL REPORT SERIES OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST.

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1987.

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEORGE H., 1879. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1879.

  • Deposit

    PERMANENT NOTES OF THE NJGS. ON FILE IN TRENTON, NJ.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 5 SEPARATE DEPOSITS

Reporter information

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

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