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Cook Farm Mine

Past Producer in Warren 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. 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 10082379
MRDS ID W055118
Record type Site
Current site name Cook Farm Mine
Related records 10082375

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.94182, 40.88722 (WGS84)
Elevation 219

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Blairstown(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 JENNY JUMP BELT ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Analytical data

Result 1899: FE 48.516% P .042% S .93%

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.94182, 40.88722
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 7.92M
    Width 7.62M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1881
Year of last production 1900

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Pilling And Crane
    First year 1900
  • Type Owner
    Owner John Gulick
    Home office Box 220a, Great Meadows, Nj

Comments on the workings information

  • VERTICAL SHAFT SUNK SW OF KISHPAUGH MINE TO 200'; SECOND HOLE 220 FT. NE OF SHAFT FOUND ORE AT 285 FT CONTINUING 26 FT. WITHOUT STRIKING FOOTWALL. IN 1890 SHAFT LOWERED TO 350 FT FOUND ORE TO BE 25 FT WIDE. DIAMOND DRILL 500 FT SW OF SHAFT ENCOUNTERED ORE 400 FT FROM SURFACE

Comments on development

  • MERGED WITH KISHPAUGH MINE IN 1884

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; PP 235-237

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit (1985) NO SHAFT FOUND BUT AT LOCATION A VERY LARGE TAILINGS PILE WAS FOUND NEXT TO AN OLD FOUNDATION WITH LOOKS TO HAVE HOUSED A HOISTING UNIT. MUCH SLAG AROUND FOUNDATION ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

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

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