Duckworth Farm

Past Producer in Hunterdon 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082470
MRDS ID W055216
Record type Site
Current site name Duckworth Farm

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.08432, 40.61168 (WGS84)
Elevation 131

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hunterdon(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Frenchtown(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Allentown(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 Hunterdon

Comments on the location information

  • NOW JUST A LARGE PILE OF ORE & COUNTRY ROCK SURROUNDING A DEPRESSION ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Pyrite Gangue

Analytical data

Result 1879 ORE REPORTED AS: FE 64.32%
Result P 0.0039%
Result INS.9.92%

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.08432, 40.61168

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1779
Year of first production 1877
Year of last production 1879

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Duckworth
  • Type Owner
    Owner Emanual Tomson, Rd 1, Asbury

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 15.24M
  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 7.62M

Comments on development

  • FIRST OPENING WAS MADE AROUND REVOLUTION BUT SOON ABANDONED. 1877 WAS REOPENED BY TWO SHAFTS, 50' AND 25'.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAYLEY, WILLIAM S., IRON MINES AND MINING IN NEW JERSEY; VOL. VII OF THE FINAL REPORT SERIES OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, 1910; PG 345

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIN VEINS OF ORE

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.