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Hope Mountain

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. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021910
MRDS ID DE01562
Record type Site
Current site name Hope Mountain

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.26457, 41.14944 (WGS84)
Elevation 259

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Passaic(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Greenwood Lake(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

  • PART OF RINGWOOD MINE. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1954)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Apatite Gangue

Analytical data

Result 1873 ANALYSIS YIELDED 94.06% FE2O3, 0.45% P2O5, NO S.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Pyroxenite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Amphibolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.26457, 41.14944
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip 85 SE
    Plunge 55
    Plunge direction NE

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE IS NEAR THE PYROXENE AMPHIBOLITE-QUARTZ-OLIGOCLASE GNEISS. SOME PEGMATITIC MATERIAL WAS FOUND IN TAILINGS PILES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1776
Year of last production 1868

Mining district

District name Greenwood Mine

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner State Of New Jersey, Department Of Environmental Protection
    Home office Labor & Industry Building ,John Fitch Plaza Trenton, Nj. 08625

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 30.48M
    Overall width 9.14M

Comments on the workings information

  • 5 OR 6 PITS PRESENT, ONE OF THE LARGER MEASURING 100 FT IN LENGTH AND 30 FT IN WIDTH. THREE DEEP TRENCHES ARE STILL PRESENT.

Comments on development

  • LONDON COMPANY

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

    HOTZ, PE 1952. MAGNETITE DEPOSITS OF THE STIRLING LAKE NY - RINGWOOD NJ AREA: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL 932-F.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit APPROXIMATELY 10 ORE SHOOTS.
Deposit INCLUDES SPANISH HOPE AND GOOD HOPE MINES.

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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