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Pequest 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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106373
MRDS ID W055085
Record type Site
Current site name Pequest Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.96849, 40.83167 (WGS84)
Elevation 158
Relative position DIRECTLY BEHIND HOUSE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Washington(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

  • PART OF CAT SWAMP MT. BELT ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE IS A SOFT MIXTURE OF MAGNETITE AND DECOMPOSED HORNBLENDE THAT REQUIRED THE SMELTING OF 3.5 TONS OF ORE TO PRODUCE ONE TON OF METAL

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chlorite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Feldspar Gangue
Hornblende Gangue

Analytical data

Result 28% 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) -74.96849, 40.83167
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form POD
    Dip 70 SE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures Strike 75 E And Dip 70 To 75 S

Comments on the geologic information

  • NORTH OF THE SHOOT A GRAY GRANITE ON SURFACE RAN EAST AND WEST DIPPING STEEP TOWARD THE NORTH CUTTING OUT THE ORE IN THAT DIRECTION. REGARDED AS A DIKE THAT DISPLACED VEIN

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1869
Year of first production 1869
Year of last production 1880

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Cooper, Hewitt And Co
    First year 1880
  • Type Owner
    Owner Robert Rex Rd1 Oxford, Nj

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0.101HA

Comments on the workings information

  • BASICALLY A QUARRY BUT A TUNNEL WAS DUG 100' IN HILLSIDE FORMING "Y" WITH 60 FOOT AND 165 FOOT ADITS.

Comments on development

  • BETWEEN 1869 AND 1872 SEVERAL THOUSAND TONS OF ORE WAS SHIPPED TO THE FURNACES OF CRANE IRON COMPANY, CATASAUQUA, PA. CLOSED OFF AND ON UNTIL PERMEANTLY CLOSED IN 1880 WHEN ORE BODY WAS EXHAUSTED

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; PP 257-258

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.E. 1944, NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS PERMENANT NOTES, ON FILE AT NJGS, TRENTON

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE WAS A LARGE SWOLLEN SHOOT, UNDERLAIN BY HORNBLENDE GNEISS

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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