Van Syckle Mine

Past Producer in Hunterdon county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Iron
Sections on this page
  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. Mineral rights holdings
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10149933
MRDS ID D000218
MAS/MILS ID 0340190009
Record type Site
Current site name Van Syckle Mine
Alternate or previous names Church Mine
Related records 10107623

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -74.981, 40.6572 (WGS84)
Elevation 125
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) Beekmantown Group, Lower Part

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1864

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership
Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • FROM 1871 TO 1875, PRODUCTION WAS 4390 TONS OF MAGNETITE ORE TOTAL PRODUCTION WAS PROBABLY MUCH GREATER. THE ORE IS NOTAB BEING UNUSUALLY HIGH IN TITANIUM, AND SOME VANADIUM IS ALSO

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WAR MINERALS MEMORANDUM 91.1235, 1944, 6 P.

  • Deposit

    N.J.GEOL.SURVEY, FINAL REPORT, V.7, 1910, PP 346,347.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 02-NOV-1983 Eastern Field Operations Center (EFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.