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Old Furnace Mine

Past Producer in Hunterdon 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 10082495
MRDS ID W055247
Record type Site
Current site name Old Furnace Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.85654, 40.67306 (WGS84)
Elevation 183

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hunterdon(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Califon(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 Hunterdon

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE WAS MASSIVE MAGNETITE IN A DARK COLORED GNEISS WITH BIOTITE AND MUSCOVITE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Mica Gangue

Analytical data

Result ORE HAD A HIGH SULFUR CONTENT

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.85654, 40.67306
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 0.91M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1776
Year of last production 1884

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner E. P. Merritt And F. H. Smith
    Home office New York
    First year 1880
  • Type Owner
    Owner J0hn Mcgourty Rd 2 Lebanon, Nj

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1869 THE SHAFT WAS 80 FEET DEEP WITH SEVERAL DRIFTS. BY 1880 THE SHAFT WAS 150 FT. (1985) ON SHAFT VISIBLE 20 FEET IN DIAMETER FILLED WITH OLD FARM MACHINERY. ORE STILL EVIDENT ON DUMP

Comments on development

  • 2000 TONS OF ORE WERE TAKEN OUT IN 1880. AROUND REVOLUTION MUCH ORE WAS MINED AND USED IN NEIGHBORING FURNACES. IT WAS IDLE TILL 1869; CLOSED IN 1879; REOPENED 1880

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 421

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.E. 1932, NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS PERMANENT NOTES, ON FILE AT NJGS, TRENTON

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1880, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, FOR THE YEAR 1880; PG 102

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit HANGING WALL OF NEW SHAFT HAD A RICH LAYER OF ORE. AT 150 FEET THE VEIN WAS DESCRIBED AS NARROW

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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