Brown Mine

Past Producer in Warren county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Iron
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. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082417
MRDS ID W055156
Record type Site
Current site name Brown Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.85349, 40.81472 (WGS84)
Elevation 152
Location accuracy 50(meters)
Relative position SOUTH OF SHIELDS MINE, Within 50 Yds

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hackettstown(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

  • HOUSING NOW COVERS THE SITE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE SHIPPED TO HACKETTSTOWN FURNACE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Kittatinny Supergroup
    Rock description Kittatinny Supergroup
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (oldest) Cambrian
    Chronological age 440

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.85349, 40.81472

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip 60 SE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1873
Year of first production 1874
Year of last production 1880

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Wharton, Joseph
    First year 1880

Comments on the workings information

  • NEVER EXTENSIVE SINCE ORE WAS SO CLOSE TO SURFACE

Comments on development

  • EXPLORED IN 1873, WORKED A FEW YEARS BY BOONTON IRON CO.; REOPENED BY JOSEPH WHARTON IN APRIL 1880 YIELDING 434 TONS BY MAY 31

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 71

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1880, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, FOR THE YEAR 1880; PG 120

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE WAS MIXED WITH YELLOW CLAY AND SAND AND CONTAINED LARGE NODULES OF LIMESTONE. ORE UNDER 9 TO 10 FEET OF SOIL AT JUNCTION OF LIMESTONE AND SLATE

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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