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Waterloo 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 10106390
MRDS ID W055230
Record type Site
Current site name Waterloo Mine
Alternate or previous names Brookfield Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.79459, 40.91 (WGS84)
Elevation 293

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tranquility(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

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • FROM 1868-1873 THOUSANDS OF TONS OF SUPERIOR ORE WAS RAISED

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Hornblende Gangue
Oligoclase Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result 1868: FE 65.5% S 0% P2O5 TRACE

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.79459, 40.91
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip 1868 SHAFTS 40 SE
    Thickness 2.74M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1855
Year of last production 1885

Land status

Ownership category State Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner West End Iron Co.
    First year 1884
  • Type Owner
    Owner D. E. P. State Of New Jersey

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 SHAFTS WERE SUNK BEFORE 1868. IN 1868 MINE WAS EXPLORED MORE THOROUGHLY. BY 1873 THE MAIN SHAFT WAS 300 FT DEEP AND WAS EVIDENTLY REOPENED LATER

Comments on development

  • CALLED BROOKFIELD MINE TILL ABOUT 1873. CLOSED ON DEC. 31 1873. RUN FOR THE MUSCONETCONG IRON WORKS AT STANHOPE. REOPENED BUT CLOSED AROUND 1885

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 264

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1986

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1873, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, FOR THE YEAR 1873; PP 64-65

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1884, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, FOR THE YEAR 1884; PG 103

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PRE 1855 A VEIN 3 TO 5 FT THICK SEPERATED BY COUNTRY ROCK UNCOVER D. PRE 1868 A VEIN 4 FT WIDE WAS UNCOVERED, 1868 DEPOSIT 8 TO 9 FT THICK FOUND

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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