Savage Quarry

Past Producer in Mercer county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Stone, Dimension
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. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021822
MRDS ID DE01437
Record type Site
Current site name Savage Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.83321, 40.25751 (WGS84)
Elevation 37

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mercer(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pennington(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Trenton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Delaware-Musconetcong(hydrologic unit)

Upper Delaware(hydrologic accounting unit)

Delaware-Mid Atlantic Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Jersey Mercer

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sandstone Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.83321, 40.25751

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike AVG. N50E
    Dip 12N

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1895
Year of last production 1899

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Andrew Moore Jr.
    Home office 18 Snady Land Trenton, Nj.
    First year 1985

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.405HA

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KUMMEL, H.B. 1896, NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY'S PERMANENT NOTES, ON FILE AT NJGS TRENTON.

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1985 Simonds, Raymond 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.