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Shaw 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. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082373
MRDS ID W055111
Record type Site
Current site name Shaw Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.89488, 40.91639 (WGS84)
Elevation 195

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Blairstown(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

  • SEVERAL OPENINGS ON BOTH SIDES OF ROAD REPORTED. NONE FOUND (1985) ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE IN MARBLE MAY HAVE CONTAINED CONSIDERABLE MN, SOME MG AND CACO3

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Analytical data

Result 1872 ORE WAS FE 58.5%

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Franklin
    Rock description Franklin

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.89488, 40.91639
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip NW

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 1871

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Larry Russo Jr.
    Home office 71 Hudson St,. Hackensack, Nj

Comments on the workings information

  • AT LEAST THREE PITS. PIT IN LIMESTONE ON EASTSIDE OF ROAD HIT ORE 18" WIDE; PIT NE OF IT WAS 12 FEET LONG, 5 FEET WIDE AND 7 FEET DEEP IN GNEISS; THIRD PIT NE OF SECOND PIT WAS IN GNEISS AND ABOUT SAME SIZE

Comments on development

  • ONE OF OLDEST MINE IN AREA. OPENED BEFORE 1868; CLOSED BY 1868; REOPENED 1871 BUT SOON ABANDONED

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 217-218

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SOME ORE IS FOUND IN WHITE LIMESTONE SOME IN GNEISS.

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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