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Fanning's Quarry

Past Producer in Morris 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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021784
MRDS ID DE01278
Record type Site
Current site name Fanning's Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.5457, 40.88361 (WGS84)
Elevation 189

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Morris(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dover(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

  • NO MAJOR EXCAVATED AREAS; RAILROAD TRACKS BORDERING A CLIFF IS WHERE QUARRY WAS LOCATED FROM AN OLD MAP. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Primary

Materials information

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

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Hornblende Granite;Quartz Oligoclase Gneiss
    Rock description Hornblende Granite;Quartz Oligoclase Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.5457, 40.88361
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LAYERED
    Strike N40E
    Dip 60 SE

Comments on the geologic information

  • FELDSPARS ALTERING TO KAOLIN, AND HORNBLENDE ALTERING TO CHLORITE.

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
Year of last production 1908

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Randolph Knolls, Inc.
    Home office 2 Farm Rd. Randolph, Nj. 07869

Comments on the workings information

  • ABANDONED.

Comments on development

  • USED FOR FIRST METHODIST CHURCH AT DOVER.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEWIS, J.V., 1909. BUILDING STONES OF NJ IN ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1908.

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1987.

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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