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Royal Green Marble Quarry

Past Producer in Warren county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Stone, Dimension
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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. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082296
MRDS ID W055014
Record type Site
Current site name Royal Green Marble Quarry
Alternate or previous names Warnes Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.18405, 40.7225 (WGS84)
Elevation 67

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Easton(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 :(1973)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • MIXTURE OF TALC AND SERPENTINE WAS ALSO MADE INTO MINERAL PULP

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Serpentine Ore
Tremolite Ore
Apatite Gangue
Dolomite Gangue
Graphite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Tourmaline Gangue
Uraninite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.18405, 40.7225
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • SERPENTINE IS APPLE GREEN PROBABLY ALTERED FROM DOLOMITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Year of first production 1880
Year of last production 1941

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Phillipsburg Marble Co., Phillipsburg, N. J.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall depth 30.48M

Comments on development

  • FORMERLY WARNES QUARRY; CLOSED DURING WW II

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.; 1954, NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS PERMENANT NOTES, ON FILE AT NJGS, TRENTON

  • Deposit

    LEWIS, J.V., 1909, BUILDING STONES OF NEW JERSEY IN ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1908

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SITE IS NOW WATER FILLED BUT AS LATE AS 1957 OVER TWENTY-FIVE DIFFERENT MINERALS WERE COLLECTED THERE ; INFO.SRC : 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV; 1 PUB LIT

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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