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Staley 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082363
MRDS ID W055097
Record type Site
Current site name Staley Mine
Alternate or previous names Straley Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.99488, 40.79833 (WGS84)
Elevation 183

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

  • PART OF OXFORD GROUP. ON OPPOSITE SIDE OF ROAD FROM OTHERS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE WAS EXCELLENTLY ADAPTED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BARS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Feldspar Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Mica Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Analytical data

Result CONTAINED LESS THAN 0.16%

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.99488, 40.79833
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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 1868
Year of last production 1868

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner D. I Farms (Eugene D'Altrui) River Road Bellmead, Nj
    First year 1985

Comments on the workings information

  • LITTLE IS KNOWN OF MINES HISTORY. 1985 LARGE PILES OF ORE AND ORE MIXED WITH ROCK FOUND NEAR WHAT APPEARS TO BE A TRENCH BUT COULD HAVE BEEN WASTE FROM OTHER MINES ACROSS ROAD. NO SHAFT FOUND

Comments on development

  • ONE OF THE OLDEST OF THE OXFORD GROUP WAS WORKED QUITE EXTENSIVELY WAS CLOSED DOWN AFTER OTHER VEINS WERE FOUND THAT COULD BE MINED AT LESS COST

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 249

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1868, GEOLOGY OF NEW JERSEY 1868, PG 639

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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