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Excelsior 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. 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 10082485
MRDS ID W055234
Record type Site
Current site name Excelsior Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.80765, 40.88583 (WGS84)
Elevation 250

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tranquility(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newark(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

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Sphene Gangue

Analytical data

Result 40% FE

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.80765, 40.88583
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip STEEP SE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1871
Year of last production 1883

Land status

Ownership category State Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Wight, Charles B.
    Home office Hackettstown, Nj
    First year 1873
  • Type Owner
    Owner D. E. P. State Of New Jersey

Comments on the workings information

  • MAYBE 3 SHAFTS, DEFINATLY ONE AND A NUMBER OF PITS EVIDENT IN 1984

Comments on development

  • OPENED ON THE STEVENS FARM EXTENSIVELY DEVELOPED BY 1873

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 275

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1984

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1873, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, FOR THE YEAR 1873; PG 64

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE AT SURFACE WAS A COARSE CRYSTALLINE MIX OF MAGNETITE AND GNEISS. ORE PERCENTAGE INCREASED WITH DEPTH

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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