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Van Syckle Church Mine

Producer in Hunterdon county in New Jersey, United States with commodities Iron, Titanium, Metal, Vanadium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Links to other databases
  9. Bibliographic references
  10. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10107623
MRDS ID D000218
Record type Site
Current site name Van Syckle Church Mine
Related records 10149933

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.98293, 40.65 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hunterdon(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

High Bridge(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

  • ABOVE LAT. AND LONG. ARE CENTRAL POINT IN STATE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Titanium, Metal Critical Tertiary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • LOW GRADE MOS2 ORE (YETHOLME)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.98293, 40.65
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: LAYERS OF MAGNETITE IN CHLORITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Comments on the production information

  • WHIPSTICK PRODUCED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF TONS OF HIGH-GRADE BISMUTH-MOLYBDENUM ORE AT TURN OF CENTURY
  • SMALL PRODUCTION. 1700'S - 1800'S.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • POTENTIAL NOT KNOWN BUT PROBABLY SMALL. MAGNETIC CONC. OF SAMPLE FROM DUMP CONTAINED 0.5% V2O5 (BALSLEY, J. R., 1942, V CONTENT OF FE-TI ORES IN US: USGS UNPUB REPT.)

Comments on the workings information

  • THE SKARN PETROLOGY IS GARNET-DIOPSIDE WOLLASTONITE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAYLEY, 1910, N. J. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, FINAL REPT. SER., V.

  • Reserve-Resource

    BAYLEY, 1910

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1973 Fischer, Richard P. U.S. Geological Survey

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