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Ten Eyck's Exploration

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 10021717
MRDS ID DE01103
Record type Site
Current site name Ten Eyck's Exploration
Alternate or previous names Welling Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.37958, 41.20667 (WGS84)
Elevation 366

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

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1954)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • 400 TONS OF ORE HAD BEEN RAISED BY 1880.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Biotite Gangue

Analytical data

Result 1876 ANALYSIS YIELDED 33.91% FE, 0.028 P, 50% SIO2
Result 1879: 54.23% FE
Result .033% P, TRACE S, TI, MN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Quartz-Plagioclase-Potassium Feldspar Gneiss
    Rock description Quartz-Plagioclase-Potassium Feldspar Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.37958, 41.20667
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip SE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1855
Year of last production 1880

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner M. F. Ten Eyck
  • Type Owner
    Owner Eugene Wright
    Home office Drawer A Goshen, Ny 10924

Comments on the workings information

  • AROUND 1855 FIVE PITS HAD UNCOVERED ORE; IN 1879 A NUMBER OF NEW OPENINGS HAD BEEN MADE. FOUND ONE 10 FOOT BY 5 FOOT COLLAPSED PIT. NOT MUCH TAILINGS AROUND.

Comments on development

  • OPENED ON LANDS OF JOHN AND THOMAS WELLING BY M.F. EYCK. ORE WAS USED AT WAWAYANDA FURNACE.

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

    COOK, GEORGE H., 1880. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1880.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LEAN ORE WAS REMOVED. ORE WAS ALTERNATING LAYERS OF QUARTZ AND MAGNETITE.

Reporter information

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

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