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Roseberry Mine

Past Producer in Warren 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082279
MRDS ID W044992
Record type Site
Current site name Roseberry Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.06571, 40.80333 (WGS84)
Elevation 122
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Belvidere(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Allentown(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 Warren

Comments on the location information

  • (1985) QUESTIONABLE LOCATION BUT AT LAT/LONG REFERENCE A LOT OF TAILINGS AND WHAT APPEARS TO BE RUINS OF A TIMBERED SHAFT WERE FOUND ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • 1872-73 1,000 TONS OF ORE WERE RAISED; 1880 200 TONS WERE MINED

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Mica Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.06571, 40.80333
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE WAS MIXED WITH CONSIDERABLE MICA AND BLUISH SHALE, SO RATHER LEAN

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1872
Year of last production 1890

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Peter Fry
    First year 1880
  • Type Owner
    Owner Carl Haycock
    Home office Po 264 Belvidere, N.J.

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 SHAFTS ORIGINALLY PUT DOWN. 1,000 TONS OF ORE WERE SHIPPED TO COOPER & HEWITT AT DURHAM, PA. IN 1873

Comments on development

  • OPENED 1872 FOR ONE YEAR. REOPENED BEFORE 1875, CLOSED: REOPENED 1880, CLOSED SOON AFTER

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAYLEY, WILLIAM S., 1910, MINES AND MINING IN NEW JERSEY, VOL. VII OF THE FINAL REPORT SERIES OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST; PP 232-233

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H., 1873, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, FOR THE YEAR 1873, PG 73

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H., 1880, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, FOR THE YEAR 1880, PG. 116

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MINE CLOSED IN 1873 BECAUSE VEIN PINCHED TO A WIDTH OF ONLY 6 INCHES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-86 Simonds, Raymond E. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

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