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Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad Quarry

Past Producer in Morris county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Stone, Crushed/Broken
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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 10021771
MRDS ID DE01264
Record type Site
Current site name Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.38541, 40.93444 (WGS84)
Elevation 189

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Morris(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Boonton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hackensack-Passaic(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 Morris

Comments on the location information

  • ABANDONED ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Granite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Quartz-Oligoclase Gneiss;Hornblende Granite
    Rock description Quartz-Oligoclase Gneiss;Hornblende Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.38541, 40.93444
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N35E
    Dip 75 SE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1908
Year of last production 1900

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Walker Assoc.
    Home office C/O David Katz 611 Pleasant Valley Way West Orange, Nj.

Comments on the workings information

  • QUARRY IS NOW ABANDONED.

Comments on development

  • USED FOR BALLAST AND CRUSHED STONE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEWIS, J.V. 1909. BUILDING STONE OF NJ IN ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1908.

  • Deposit

    PERMANENT NOTES OF THE NJGS FOR YEARS 1917 AND 1946, ON FILE IN TRENTON, NJ.

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1987.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MEDIUM-GRAINED OLIGOCLASE-QUARTZ GNEISS AND HORNBLENDE GRANITE.

Reporter information

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

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