Clines Mine

Past Producer in Warren county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Iron
Sections on this page
  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082312
MRDS ID W055035
Record type Site
Current site name Clines Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.07766, 40.68333 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position Shaft Never Found In 1910 Or 1985

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bloomsbury(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 :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE WAS LEAN AND A CONSIDERABLE QUANITY WAS REMOVED AND SOLD

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

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) -75.07766, 40.68333

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1873
Year of last production 1879

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Lester Horvath
    Home office Box 211 Stewartsville, Nj

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 60.96M
    Overall depth 6.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • A SHAFT 20 FEET DEEP WITH A 200 FOOT LONG ADIT ON THE VEIN PRESENT IN 1873

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAYLEY, WILLIAM S., 1910, IRON MINES AND MINING IN NEW JERSEY VOL. VII OF THE FINAL REPORT SERIES OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, PG 270

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1879, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1879, PG 73.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.