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Leake 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082446
MRDS ID W055185
Record type Site
Current site name Leake Mine
Alternate or previous names Leak Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.66487, 40.80778 (WGS84)
Elevation 250

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

  • MINE WORKINGS FILLED BY STATE APPOX. 1969 ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE SAID TO BE VERY RUSTY AND SOFT

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) -74.66487, 40.80778
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 2.44M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1866
Year of first production 1866
Year of last production 1882

Land status

Ownership category State Park

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Beemer, A.
    Home office Dover, Nj
  • Type Owner
    Owner State Of New Jersey
    Home office New Jersey

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 OPENINGS WERE MADE DEEPEST REACHED 80 FEET

Comments on development

  • OPENED 1866 BY BETHLEHEM IRON CO., CLOSED 1869. REOPENED 1882 BY A. BEEMER BUT CLOSED IN SAME YEAR. NORTHERN WORKINGS LATER KNOWN AS SKELLENGER 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 441

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1986

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1883, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, FOR THE YEAR 1883; PG. 94

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1986 Simonds, Raymond E. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

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