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Swayze Mine

Past Producer in Hunterdon 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. 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 10082314
MRDS ID W055037
Record type Site
Current site name Swayze Mine
Alternate or previous names Bethlehem Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.0196, 40.66417 (WGS84)
Elevation 274

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hunterdon(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 Hunterdon

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • BETWEEN 1879-1889 MINE YIELDED 16,000 TONS OF ORE ANNUALLY OF BESSEMER GRADE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Precambrian
    Chronological age 1000000000

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.0196, 40.66417
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Workings Encountered A Fault In 1884 Which Displaced The Vein 40' To The Left

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1868
Year of last production 1889

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner West End Iron Co.
    First year 1880
  • Type Owner
    Owner Michael Tannen
    Home office 36e 61st St, N.Y. N.Y.
    First year 1985

Comments on the workings information

  • AT LEAST 8 PITS, AT LEAST 3 BEING SHAFTS OF APPOX. 20 FEET IN DIAMETER, ARE STILL EVIDENT (1985). NO ORE OF QUALITY FOUND

Comments on development

  • IDLE IN 1868, REOPENED SOON AFTER UNTIL 1875. REOPENED 1879 OPERATED TILL 1889. NEW SHAFTS WERE PUT DOWN IN 1871 FURTHER EAST THEN ORIGINAL SHAFTS

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 295-296

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1880, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, FOR THE YEAR 1880, PG. 110

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 2 VEINS OCCURED ON PROPERTY, ORE WAS TAKEN FROM BOTH

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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