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Turkey Hill Mine

Past Producer in Hunterdon 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. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mineral rights holdings
  9. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10296214
MAS/MILS ID 0340190008
Record type Site
Current site name Turkey Hill Mine
Alternate or previous names Broderick-Harris West End Mine,, Broderick Mine, West End Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -75.0452, 40.6544 (WGS84)
Elevation 183
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

Bloomsbury(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Allentown(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 Hunterdon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -75.0452, 40.6544
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1872

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership
Type of mineral rights Private Lease

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner West Portal Mines, Inc.
    Home office New Jersey
    Year 1976

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL PRODUCTION WAS 184000 LONG TONS OF ORE, WHICH IS A HAR MEDIUM GRAINED MAGNETITE, LOW IN PHOSPHORUS. REF.702 ESTIMATES RESERVES AS FOLLOWS- 2,000,000 TONS OF IND ORE, 3,640,000 TONS OF INFERRED ORE, AND 12,500,000 TONS OF POTENTIAL ORE, FOR A TOTAL OF 18,140,000 TONS OF POTENTIAL R

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS BULLETIN 920, 1941, P 76.

  • Deposit

    US BUREAU OF MINES, R.I.4352, 1948, 11P.

  • Deposit

    WAR MINERALS REPORT 91.366, 1943, 25 P.

Reporter information

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

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

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