1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Banghart Mine

Past Producer in Hunterdon county in New Jersey, United States with commodities Iron, Copper
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082342
MRDS ID W055071
Record type Site
Current site name Banghart Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.91599, 40.7025 (WGS84)
Elevation 238

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

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Pyrite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.91599, 40.7025
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 0.91M

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 1880

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Theodore Hoffman
    First year 1879
  • Type Owner
    Owner Barnhart, Alice
    Home office Box 177 Glen Gardner, Nj
    First year 1986

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 OPENINGS MADE BEFORE 1868. IN 1879 A SHAFT 35 FEET DEEP FOUND A VEIN OF ORE 3 FEET WIDE. 1985 8 LARGE SHAFTS VISIBLE LARGEST 20 FEET IN DIAMETER 8 FEET DEEP. NO GOOD ORE FOUND

Comments on development

  • FIRST OPENED AS A COPPER PROSPECT SOON ABANDONED. REOPENED IN 1879 BUT LITTLE ORE WAS REMOVED. DURING WW II WAS REEXAMINED BUT NOT OPENED

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 347

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

  • Deposit

    WOODWARD, H.P. 1944, COPPER MINES AND MINING IN NEW JERSEY, BULLETIN 57; PG 139

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

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

Maps centered on this site