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Creager Mine

Past Producer in Warren 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. 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 10082355
MRDS ID W055087
Record type Site
Current site name Creager Mine
Alternate or previous names Confucius Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.93377, 40.78583 (WGS84)
Elevation 274

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Washington(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newark(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 :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE WAS LEAN

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Tourmaline 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) -74.93377, 40.78583
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 2.74M

Comments on the geologic information

  • AREA IS SLIGHTLY RADIOACTIVE. PEGMATITE SAMPLE CONTAINS UNDETERMINED URANIUM MINERAL

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1871
Year of last production 1880

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Wight, Charles B.
    Home office Hackettstown, Nj
    First year 1873
  • Type Owner
    Owner Dyksta Properties 53 Clositer Pl Staten Island, N. Y.

Comments on the workings information

  • OPENED IN 1871 WITH TWO SHAFTS 50 FEET AND 23 FEET DEEP. 1985 1 SHAFT FOUND 12 FEET IN DIAMETER FILLED WITH BOULDERS. 100 FEET NORTH OFIT SEEMS TO BE A TRENCH. LOT OF MATERIAL AND LEAN ORE IN TWO LARGE PILES NORTH OF MAIN SHAFT

Comments on development

  • ON FARM OF P. CREAGOR (1873); WIGHT AND GOULDING (1880); MINE ONLY IN OPERATION FROM 1871 TO 1873. RE-EXPLORED IN 1880 BUT NO MINING WAS ATTEMPTED

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 271

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1873, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1873, PG 61

Reporter information

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

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