High Bridge Mines

Past Producer in Hunterdon 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. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082338
MRDS ID W055066
Record type Site
Current site name High Bridge Mines
Alternate or previous names Taylor Mines

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.89127, 40.6725 (WGS84)
Elevation 140

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hunterdon(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

High Bridge(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Raritan(hydrologic unit)

Lower Hudson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Hudson-Long Island(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Jersey Hunterdon

Comments on the location information

  • NUMEROUS OPENINGS MOST ON SLOPE EAST OF HIGH BRIDGE SCHOOL ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • BETWEEN 1864-1889 69,180 TONS WERE MINED

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Hornblende Gangue
Mica Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Analytical data

Result ORE CONTAINED LARGE AMOUNTS OF TITANIUM AND SULFUR. FE 61.07%

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.89127, 40.6725

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip 65 TO 72 SE
    Length 1206.98M
    Width 5.49M
    Depth to bottom 60.96M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ne End Of Vein A Fault Displaced The Ore Body Appox. 20 Ft

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE WAS IN THE FORM OF A SERIES OF SHOOTS TO THE NE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Year of first production 1720
Year of last production 1889

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Thomas Iron Co.
    First year 1889
  • Type Owner
    Owner High Bridge Board Of Education And Various Home Owners
    First year 1985

Comments on the workings information

  • NUMEROUS OPENINGS WERE MADE OVER A DISTANCE OF ALMOST A MILE. DEEPEST SHAFT WAS AT LEAST 200 FEET DEEP

Comments on development

  • OPENED APPOX 1720. BEFORE REVOLUTION ORE WAS USED AT UNION FURNACE THEN AT SOLITUDE FORGE TILL AT LEAST 1868. ABANDONED IN 1879 TILL 1886. FINALLY CLOSED IN 1889

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; PP 355-357

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

  • Deposit

    FACKENTHAL, B.F. NO DATE, LETTER ON FILE AT NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, TRENTON

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1887, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, FOR THE YEAR 1886; PG 143

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN WORKED IN 1886 WAS 4 FEET THICK, HAD A DIP 72 DEGREES SE WITH A 40-47 DEGREE PITCH NE. MAIN VEIN WORKED EARLIER WAS 2.5-18 FEET THICK, DIP 65 DEGREES SE, PITCH NE

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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