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Riegel 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. Ownership information
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082487
MRDS ID W055237
Record type Site
Current site name Riegel Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.18128, 40.62001 (WGS84)
Elevation 152

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Riegelsville(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

  • NUMEROUS PITS BETWEEN RAPP AND CARPENTER MINES ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1973)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Kittatinny Supergroup
    Rock description Kittatinny Supergroup
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.18128, 40.62001
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE OCCURS ALONG GNEISS LIMESTONE BORDER

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1879
Year of first production 1879
Year of last production 1880

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Isaac Riegel
  • Type Owner
    Owner Frey, Robert
    Home office Rd 1 Box 351, Phillipsburg, Nj

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 182.88M

Comments on development

  • ORE SHIPPED TO DURHAM IRON WORKS, PA.

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 64.

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H., ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1880; PG 128-129, 1880

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

Reporter information

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

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