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Tellington Mine

Past Producer in Passaic 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. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021899
MRDS ID DE01546
Record type Site
Current site name Tellington Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.36847, 41.0425 (WGS84)
Elevation 290
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Passaic(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wanaque(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Middletown(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Scranton(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 Passaic

Comments on the location information

  • COULD NOT FIND; MINE PROBABLY MIS-LOCATED ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • 200 TONS RAISED; ORE LEAN, BUT GOOD QUALITY

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Precambrian
    Chronological age 1000000000

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.36847, 41.0425
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip 40 SE TO NW
    Width 1.52M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1873
Year of last production 1874

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner S. D. Brown

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 12.19M
    Overall length 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • THREE SHAFTS WERE SUNK IN 1873.

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., 1874. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1874.

  • Deposit

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

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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