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Washington 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. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082291
MRDS ID W055008
Record type Site
Current site name Washington Mine
Alternate or previous names Harrison Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.00071, 40.79083 (WGS84)
Elevation 250

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

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Biotite Gangue
Microcline Gangue

Analytical data

Result 1885: FE 63.19% S 1.68% P .615% SIO2 7.985%

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.00071, 40.79083
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 25 W
    Dip 45 SW
    Thickness 3.66M
    Length 1219.2M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1854
Year of last production 1964

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Alan Wood Streel
    First year 1964
  • Type Owner
    Owner Velencei, John
    Home office Daly Road, Far Hill, NJ

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 151.49M

Comments on the workings information

  • BY 1868 MINE HAD BEEN WORKED TO 94 FEET THROUGH A LENGTH OF 250 FEET ALONG A DEPOSIT 12 FEET THICK. MINE IDLE TILL 1879 WHEN AN OLD SLOPE WAS REOPENED, KILNS BUILT TO ROAST ORE AND A NEW SHAFT WAS SUNK 1,000 FEET SOUTH INTO AN ORE DEPOSIT AVERAGING 11 FEET THICK. TEMPORARILY CLOSED IN 1885 REOPENED IN 1895 AND AGAIN IN 1900. WORKED ALMOST CONTINUOUSLY FROM 1900 TILL 1964. IN 1901 A NEW THREE COMPARTMENT SLOPE WAS BUILT 1400 FEET SOUTH OF OLD ONE. BY 1903 IT REACHED 497 FEET PRODUCING 30,172 TONS IN THAT YEAR. FROM 1903 TILL 1910 WAS PRODUCING 100,000 TONS PER YEAR. RECORDS OF 1937 INDICATE A 1400 FT VERTICAL HOISTING SHAFT WAS IN OPERATION. MANY BUILDINGS STILL STANDING (1985)

Comments on development

  • OPERATED BY OXFORD IRON AND NAIL CO. FROM 1885-1895; NOV. 1, 1929 WAS LEASED BY ALAN WOOD MINING COMPANY OF CONSHOHOKEN, PA. TILL 1964 WHEN ECONOMIC ORE WAS DEPLETED

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 234-244

  • Deposit

    VARIOUS AUTHORS, 1918, 1930, 1948, 1964, NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY'S PERMENANT NOTES ON FILE AT NJGS, TRENTON

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BOTH MINES RAN ON PARALLEL SEAMS 12 FEET APART; DEPOSIT WAS UNIFORM IN THICKNESS WITH NO PINCHES

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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