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Meridan Stone Company

Past Producer in Morris county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Stone, Crushed/Broken
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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 10021770
MRDS ID DE01263
Record type Site
Current site name Meridan Stone Company

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.46125, 40.94972 (WGS84)
Elevation 183

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Morris(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Boonton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hackensack-Passaic(hydrologic unit)

Lower Hudson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Hudson-Long Island(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Jersey Morris

Comments on the location information

  • ABANDONED. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Granite Ore
Plagioclase Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite
    Rock unit name Hornblende Granite
    Rock description Hornblende Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.46125, 40.94972
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LAYERED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1953
Year of last production 1970

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Herman J. Koehler
    Home office 3rd Split Rock Rd. Po Box 521 Boonton, Nj. 0700?

Comments on the workings information

  • VERTICAL BANDING PRESENT; 2 SETS OF FRACTURS: 1 DEGREE STRIKES N18DEGREE W DIPPING 83 NE; 2 DEGREE STRIKES N60 DEGREE E, DIPPING I 74 DEGREE NW.

Comments on development

  • COMPANY WAS A SUBSIDIARY OF NORTH JERSEY QUARRY COMPANY

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PERMANENT NOTES (22.44.4.4.8) ON FILE AT NJGS, IN TRENTON, NJ

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1987.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ-PLAGIOCLASE-POTASSIC FELDSPAR GNEISS WITH AMPHIBOLITE.

Reporter information

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

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