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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082287
MRDS ID W055003
Record type Site
Current site name Ahles Mine
Alternate or previous names Osmun-Robeson Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.00849, 40.815 (WGS84)
Elevation 183

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 BELVIDERE MINES GROUP ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • UP TO 1910 215,000 TONS OF ORE WAS RAISED; ORE IS A MIXTURE OF SOFT BROWN LIMONITE, WITH PYROLUSITE NODULES AND CRYSTALS OF MAGNETITE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Biotite Gangue
Calcite Gangue

Analytical data

Result 1904: FE 47.65%
Result MN 4.35%
Result AL2O3 1.35
Result CAO 1.26%
Result MGO 1.64%
Result S .038%
Result P .092%
Result SIO2 15.7

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) -75.00849, 40.815
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 60 W TO N 70 W
    Dip 80 SW
    Thickness 12.19M

Comments on the geologic information

  • NORTH OF THE ORE THE ROCK IS A HIGHLY ALTERED GNESSIC MARBLE, SOUTH OF THE ORE IS GNEISS. ORE DIFFERS FROM SULPHUR HILL, ROSEVILLE AND GLENDON MINES IN THAT INTRUSIVE BASIC ROCKS ARE ABSENT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1901
Year of last production 1916

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Basic Iron Ore Co.
    Last year 1914
  • Type Owner
    Owner Anthony Popinko Edison Road Oxford (Property For Sale)
    Last year 1985

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1901, A SHAFT WAS SUNK 168 FEET NE OF ORE BODY. AT THE 75' AND 128' LEVELS CROSSCUTS WERE RUN SW TO THE ORE BODY. IN 1902, TWO OTHER SHAFTS WERE SUNK, AND DRIFTS WERE DRIVEN FOR A DISTANCE OF 760 FEET ALONG THE VEIN, DEVELOPING ORE THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE DISTANCE. AN INCLINED SHAFT WAS SUNK FARTHER WEST IN 1907. DURING 1908, A DRIFT ON THE 200 FOOT LEVEL WAS DRIVEN 1800 FEET IN ORE TO CONNECT WITH THE CROSSCUT FROM SHAFT 1. FROM SHAFT 3, ON THE 250 FOOT LEVEL, A CROSSCUT WAS STARTED TOWARD THE ORE BODY. WHEN MINE CLOSED 100 MEN WERE PUT OUT OF WORK. 1985 ONE LARGE SHAFT VISABLE 40' IN DIAMETER BY 40' DEEP. TIMBER SUPPORTS STILL AT BOTTOM. NO ORE FOUND BUT MOUNDS OF TAILING SURROUNDING SHAFT.

Comments on development

  • MINE CLOSED 1916 BECAUSE OF NO MARKET FOR ORE AND WAS ALLOWED TO FILL WITH WATER; IN 1920 STORED ORE IN STOCKPILE WAS SOLD AS UMBER AFTER TREATMENT. IN 1923 300 TONS A DAY WERE SHIPPED FROM STOCKPILE. IN 1944 EXPLORATION DRILLING WAS CONDUCTED TO SEE IF MINE SHOULD BE REOPENED BUT WAS NOT

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 210-212

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

  • Deposit

    US-DEPT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF MINES, 1944, WAR MINERALS REPORT 161, ATTLES MINE WARREN COUNTY, N.J. PP. 4, 5, 10

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.E., 1944, NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY'S PERMENANT NOTES, ON FILE AT NJGS, TRENTON

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ON THE SIDE A PEGMATITE "HORSE" 2 1/2' TO 30' THICK SEPERATES THE MAIN ORE BODY FROM A SHORT LENS OF ORE 5' TO 30' THICK

Reporter information

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

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