Barker Mine

Past Producer in Warren 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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082353
MRDS ID W055084
Record type Site
Current site name Barker Mine
Alternate or previous names Bulgin Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.8896, 40.86194 (WGS84)
Elevation 250

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Washington(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 Warren

Comments on the location information

  • PART OF OXFORD BELT ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE IS FINE GRAINED, VERY RICH, NO SULPHUR AND ONLY A TRACE OF PYRITE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Hornblende Gangue

Analytical data

Result FE 61.96%

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Precambrian
    Chronological age 1000000000

Nearby scientific data

(1) Hardyston Quartzite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike NW
    Dip 38 NE
    Width 3.66M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ore Cut By A Ne And Sw Fault, At The Sw Edge Of Opening

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE IS INTERBANDED WITH GNEISS AND HORNBLENDE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1880
Year of last production 1881

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Bulgin And Swayze
  • Type Owner
    Owner Jospeh Marchesani
    Home office 8 Loring Road Hopkins, Mn

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 7.62M
    Overall length 6.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • MAIN SHAFT HIGH ON HILL WHERE NO WATER PROBLEMS WERE ENCOUNTERED. ANOTHER OPENING WAS MADE 300 FEET NE. BOTH SHAFTS ARE STILL VISIBLE (1985) APPOX 12 FEET IN DIAMETER 20 FEET DEEP WITH A TRENCH BETWEEN THEM

Comments on development

  • OPENED 1880 ON LAND OF C. BARKER.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAYLEY, WILLIAM S. 1910, IRON MINES AND MINING IN NEW JERSEY, VOL. VII OF THE FINAL REPORT SERIES OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST; PG 250

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1880, ANNAUL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1880, PP. 125-126

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1986 Simonds, Raymond E. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

Beyond USGS

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