Hude Mine

Past Producer in Sussex 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. 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. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021700
MRDS ID DE01082
Record type Site
Current site name Hude Mine
Alternate or previous names Stanhope Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.71515, 40.91667 (WGS84)
Elevation 268

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sussex(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Stanhope(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 Sussex

Comments on the location information

  • A WIDE AREA AROUND HERE WAS WORKED AT ONE TIME. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • 1790-JULY 1880 APPROX. 29,000 TONS OF ORE MINED; FROM 1901 ON APPROX. 10,000 TONS PRODUCED ANNUALLY.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Pyrite Gangue

Analytical data

Result 1868 ANALYSIS YIELDED 72.0% FE2O3, 21.3% SIO2 & INSOL., 1.2% S AND 59.4 % METALLIC FE.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Pyroxene Gneiss;Amphibolite
    Rock description Pyroxene Gneiss;Amphibolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.71515, 40.91667

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip SE

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE WAS CRUMBLY AND POSSIBLY SULPHUROUS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1790
Year of last production 1910

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Musconetcong Iron Works
  • Type Owner
    Owner Robert H. Arnow
    Home office 1114 Ave. Of The Americas New York, Ny. 10036

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall length 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • APPROXIMATELY 50 PITS AND A 200 FT TUNNEL. STILL EXISTING IS SOME TAILINGS PILES AND SOME SMALL COLLAPSED PITS OR GLORY HOLES. DIDN'T FIND THE TUNNEL.

Comments on development

  • OPENED BY J. DICKERSON; SMELTED AT LOCKWOOD FORGE. REOPENED IN 1873 BY E. CANFIELD. IN 1880 RUN BY J.M. BARNES; ORE USED AT STANHOPE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAYLEY, WILLIAM S., 1910. IRON MINES AND MINING INNEW JERSEY, VOL. VII OF THE FINAL REPORT SERIES OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST.

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1987.

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEORGE H., 1868. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1868.

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEORGE H., 1873. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1873.

  • Deposit

    DEPARTMENT OF LABOR & INDUSTRY, 1982. ABANDONED IRON MINES OF SUSSEX COUNTY, NJ.

  • Deposit

    PERMANENT NOTES ON FILE AT THE NJGS, TRENTON, NJ.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SOME ORE WAS PYRITE-RICH; SOME ORE CONTAINED MOLYBDENITE & MOLYBDITE; PARTICULARLY NEAR PEGMATITE DIKES & FAULTS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1987 Kaeding, Margaret E. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

Beyond USGS

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