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Ramsey's Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082474
MRDS ID W055220
Record type Site
Current site name Ramsey's Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.13572, 40.75056 (WGS84)
Elevation 122

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bangor(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 Warren

Comments on the location information

  • HOUSES NOW ON SITE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1973)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • TOTAL PRODUCTION WAS 400 TONS; SOLD FOR PAINT

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) -75.13572, 40.75056
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1870
Year of first production 1870
Year of last production 1872

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall depth 5.49M

Comments on the workings information

  • 18 FT DEEP, ORE FOUND 3-6' FT BELOW SURFACE.

Comments on development

  • WORKED FROM 1870 TO JULY 1872 TILL COMPANY RAN INTO "BUSINESS TROUBLES". OPENED ON LANDS OF ADAM RAMSEY

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 52

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H., 1872, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST OF NEW JERSEY, FOR THE YEAR 1872; PP 31-32

  • Deposit

    BEERS, F.W. 1874, COUNTY ATLAS OF WARREN NEW JERSEY; PG 60

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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