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Fox Hill 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. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082499
MRDS ID W055252
Record type Site
Current site name Fox Hill Mine
Alternate or previous names Fisher Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.77931, 40.71722 (WGS84)
Elevation 213

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

  • LITTLE ORE SHIPPED; ORE CONTAINED A LITTLE PYRITE AND SOME HORNBLENDE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Hornblende Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Analytical data

Result 1877: FE 57.50% S .59% P .04%

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.77931, 40.71722
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 3.66M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1873
Year of last production 1880

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Edward Canfield, Dover, Nj
    First year 1874
  • Type Owner
    Owner Dunn, Douglas
    Home office Rr 1 Box 183 Califon, Nj

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 7.62M

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1879 THE MAIN SHAFT WAS 25 FEET DEEP AND WAS LOCATED WEST OF THE ORIGINAL 1873 OPENINGS. THERE WAS MUCH WATER IN THE SHAFT BUT PUMPING WAS DONE BY WATER POWER USING A 3" PUMP. 1985 3 LARGE SHAFTS WITH SMALLER CONNECTING PITS ARE EVIDENT. SHAFTS ARE 25 YDS WEST OF STREAM. PART OF A WATER PUMP PIPE STILL IN MAIN SHAFT ALONG WITH A DRAINAGE DITCH RUNNING FROM IT TO THE STREAM. GOOD QUALITY ARE CAN BE FOUND AROUND SHAFTS

Comments on development

  • FIRST EXPLORED IN 1873. IN 1874 IT WAS FURTHER EXPLORED AND DEPOSIT WAS SAID TO BE LARGE & PROMISING. MORE OPENINGS WERE MADE IN THE FOLLOWING YEARS. TOO FAR FROM RAILROAD TO BE OPERATED PROFITABLY

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 425

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1879, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, FOR THE YEAR 1879; PP 45-46

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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