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Bald Pate 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 10106374
MRDS ID W055089
Record type Site
Current site name Bald Pate Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.90682, 40.81611 (WGS84)
Elevation 311
Relative position FIRST SHAFT 20' EAST OF 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

  • NEW HOUSE BEING CONSTRUCTED WHICH WILL PROBABLY CAUSE SHAFTS TO BE FILLED IN COMPLETELY ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • 2,000 TONS PRODUCED BETWEEN 1873-1876; 150 TONS IN 1879

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result FE 54.10% S .025 P .039

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.90682, 40.81611
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • SE SHAFT HIT QUARTZ AT 40 FEET AND CONTINUED TO BOTTOM AT 96 FEET; MIDDLE SHAFT WAS IN GNEISS AND ORE; NW SHAFT HIT A GREENISH SLATY ROCK ON HANGING WALL OF VEIN; RADIOACTIVITY NOTED ON GRAVEL ROAD SEPERATING 2 SHAFTS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1868
Year of last production 1879

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner John Feller Mt. Bethel Road Port Murray, Nj

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 SHAFTS SUNK, SE SHAFT TO 96 FEET. NW SHAFT TO 60 FEET. 1985 2 SHAFTS EVIDENT 1 30' DIAMETER BY 20 FEET DEEP. 1 SHAFT MOSTLY FILLED IN BUT MUST BE DEEP SINCE A CAR CAN BE SEEN AT BOTTOM. MUCH WASTE AROUND SHAFTS INCLUDING GOOD QUALITY ORE AND QUARTZ.

Comments on development

  • FIRST SHAFT OPENED BY HENRY ALBERT; MIDDLE SHAFT IN 1873 BY PHILIP SMITH; THIRD SHAFT BY A BOSTON FIRM. MINE WAS OPERATED FOR SHORT PERIODS AT DIFFERENT TIMES WITH LITTLE SUCCESS

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 272-273

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1879, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1879, PG 75

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE SEEMED TO BE IN IRREGULAR STRINGS IN ROCK RATHER THAN A REGULAR VEIN

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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