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Hackelbarney Mine

Past Producer in Morris 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 10082440
MRDS ID W055179
Record type Site
Current site name Hackelbarney Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.7232, 40.77 (WGS84)
Elevation 207

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Morris(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Chester(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Raritan(hydrologic unit)

Lower Hudson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Hudson-Long Island(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Jersey Morris

Comments on the location information

  • OPENINGS ON EAST AND WEST SIDE OF ROAD ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • AT DEPTH ORE IS RICH IN SULFIDES BUT SURFACE WEATHERING REMOVED MUCH OF SULFUR

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Biotite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Hornblende Gangue
Plagioclase Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Pyrrhotite Gangue

Analytical data

Result AVERAGED 53% FE, MAIN ORE WAS MAGNETITE BUT NEAR SURFACE WAS OXIDIZED TO HEMATITE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.7232, 40.77
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form POD
    Dip 50-70 SE
    Length 804.65M
    Width 6.1M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1760
Year of last production 1896

Land status

Ownership category County

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Morris County Park Commision

Comments on development

  • OPENED 1760, SUPPLIED FORGES ON PROPERTY FOR ALMOST A CENTURY AFTER. MOST ORE BETWEEN 1760 AND 1868 WAS TAKEN FROM SURFACE. BETWEEN 1868-1873 EXTENSIVE EXPLORATIONS WERE DONE INCLUDING OPEN CUTS AND SHAFTS BETWEEN 1873-1884 FIVE VEINS WERE WORKED ON. SW OPENING WAS KNOWN AS THE COAL HOUSE CUT AND WAS 150 FT LONG, 45 FEET DEEP HITTING ORE 40 FEET WIDE. NUMEROUS OTHER SHAFTS AVERAGED 35 TO 40 FEET DEEP. IN 1879 THE CHESTER IRON COMPANY OWNED AND WORKED THE MINE PRODUCING 21,548 TONS THAT YEAR WITH A YIELD OF APPOX 3000 TONS A MONTH TILL ABOUT 1884. BY 1886 PRODUCTION HAD DROPPED TO 1400 PER MONTH AND BY 1896 THE MINE CLOSED. WORKINGS WERE NUMEROUS AND INCLUDED OPEN PITS, SHAFTS AND AT LEAST ONE TUNNEL 500 FT LONG DRIVEN INTO A HILL. 1985 WHOLE AREA IS COVERED BY LARGE, WATER FILLED OPEN CUTS

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 426-430

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985; 1982

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.E. 1929, NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY'S PERMENANT NOTES, ON FILE AT NJGS, TRENTON

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SURFACE ORE WAS OXIDIZED TO HEMATITE, LIMONITE AND A HERED TO CLAY.

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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