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Queen 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. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082286
MRDS ID W055001
Record type Site
Current site name Queen Mine
Alternate or previous names Belvidere Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.01877, 40.81389 (WGS84)
Elevation 195
Relative position APPOX 300 YARDS SOUTH OF THE RIDDLE MINE

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

  • PART OF THE BELVIDERE GROUP OF MINES ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE HAD TO BE WASHED BEFORE SHIPPING AS IT WAS A MIXTURE OF LIMONITE AND MAGNETITE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Feldspar Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Tourmaline Gangue

Analytical data

Result 1899
Result FE 55.29 WITH SOME MN AND P

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Franklin
    Rock description Franklin
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Precambrian
    Chronological age 1000000000

Nearby scientific data

(1) Microperthite Alaskite
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Pegmatite Dike Must Have Been Cut Through Judging By Material On Surface

Ore body information

  • Strike EW
    Dip SOUTH
    Width 12.19M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1882
Year of last production 1900

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Rothman, Arthur
    Home office 3589 Richmond Ave Staten Island, Ny
  • Type Operator
    Owner Queen, Paul
    First year 1891
  • Type Operator
    Owner Sharon Ore Co.
    Home office New York City

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1882 TWO SHAFTS WERE SUNK. ONE SHAFT WAS 75' DEEP AND FOUND AN ORE BODY 25' WIDE. 200' SOUTH OF THIS SHAFT A LARGE PIT WAS DUG ABOUT 60' WIDE. EAST OF THE PIT A SHAFT WAS DUG TO 60'. 2000 TONS OF ORE WAS MINED. AFTER 1882 SHAFTS WERE ENLARGED TO 100' AND 15,000 TONS OF ORE WERE MINED. IN 1889 TWO NEW SHAFTS AND AN INCLINE WERE PUT DOWN TO 155'. BY 1892 IT WAS PRODUCING 1800 TONS MONTHLY. IN 1891 TWO LOG WASHERS, DRIVEN BY STEAM POWER, WASHED 60 TONS OF ORE A DAY. THE ORE WAS SHIPPED BY THE LEHIGH AND HUDSON RR TO FURNACES IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. TWO SIXTY HORSE-POWER BOILERS DROVE TWO HOISTING ENGINES AND TWO STEAM PUMPS IN ORDER TO DRAIN THE MINE OF WATER. 75 MEN WERE EMPLOYED AT THE MINE IN 1891. 3 SHAFTS ARE EVIDENT TODAY ALONG WITH A WATER FILLED PIT. (1985)

Comments on development

  • MINE WAS CLOSED SOMETIME AFTER 1882 AND REOPENED IN JULY, 1889. CLOSED IN 1893 DUE TO LOW ORE PRICES UNTIL 1899 BUT CLOSED AGAIN IN 1900

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. 208-209

  • Deposit

    SMOCK, JOHN C., 1891, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1891, PP 235-236

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE WAS WALLED BY FERRUGINOUS CLAY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1986 Simonds, Raymond E. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

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