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Potter Farm 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 10082383
MRDS ID W055122
Record type Site
Current site name Potter Farm Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.9196, 40.89917 (WGS84)
Elevation 183
Location accuracy 10(meters)
Relative position Within 100 Ft Radius

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

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE SAID TO HAVE BEEN LIKE THAT FROM KISHPAUGH MINE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.9196, 40.89917
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 1.22M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1872
Year of last production 1873

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Crane Iron Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner James Kelsey Rd1 Great Meadows, N. J.

Comments on the workings information

  • ONLY ONE SHAFT 35 FEET DEEP FOUND A 4 FOOT WIDE ORE BODY. AFTER MINE CLOSED SHAFT WAS NEVER LOCATED. A PILE OF ORE TAILINGS ARE AT THE LOCATION (1985)

Comments on development

  • CLOSED SEPTEMBER, 1873, LITTLE IS KNOWN OF MINE

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 238

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEORGE H. 1873, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1873, PG 85

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-86 Simonds, Raymond E. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

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