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Auble Mine

Past Producer in Somerset 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. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082467
MRDS ID W055212
Record type Site
Current site name Auble Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.64431, 40.73167 (WGS84)
Elevation 171

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Somerset(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gladstone(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 Somerset

Comments on the location information

  • DIRT ROAD LEADS FROM MINE, DOWN EAST SIDE OF RIDGE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • 400 TONS MINED. 1890 DESCRIBED AS NON-BESSEMER BUT IN 1891 SAID TO BE BESSEMER

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Hornblende Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.64431, 40.73167
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 0.91M

Comments on the geologic information

  • NICE SPECIMENS OF HORNBLENDE AND GOOD QUALITY ORE CAN STILL BE COLLECTED (1986)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1890
Year of last production 1891

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Peapack Mining Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Turnbull, William Arthur
    Home office Po Box Far Hills, Nj

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 36.58M
    Overall length 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1890 ONE SHAFT PUT IN AN OLD PROSPECT HOLE. SHAFT WAS 50 FEET DEEP WITH THE LENGTH OF THE MINE REACHING 100 FEET. IN 1891 WORKINGS CONSISTED OF TWO SHAFTS, ONE 100 FEET DEEP, ANOTHER 80 FEET DEEP, CONNECTED BY A DRIFT 140 FEET LONG. 4 MEN WERE EMPLOYED. THE ORE WAS CARTED TO PEAPACK AND SHIPPED TO THE CARBON IRON AND PIPE COMPANY'S WORKS AT PARRYVILLE, PA. IN 1985 APPEARS TO BE 5 SHAFTS BUT COULD BE CAVED IN DRIFT. LARGEST SHAFT IS 20 FT IN DIAMETER, 20 FT DEEP AND APPEARS TO BE CAVED IN. SHAFTS FORM A STRAIGHT ROW ON TOP OF THE RIDGE. SMALL ORE PILES NORTH OF MAIN SHAFT HAVE BEEN SEPERATED BY PURITY.

Comments on development

  • OLD PROSPECT HOLE REOPENED SUMMER, 1890 ON LAND OF JOHN AUBLE OPERATED BY W. SLUP. IN 1891 WAS OPERATED BY PEAPACK MINING COMPANY

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;

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

  • Deposit

    SMOCK, JOHN C. 1891, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1890; PG 67

  • Deposit

    SMOCK, JOHN C. 1892, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1891; PG 241

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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