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Pidcock 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. 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082422
MRDS ID W055161
Record type Site
Current site name Pidcock Mine
Alternate or previous names Hunt Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.87432, 40.77361 (WGS84)
Elevation 274

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hunterdon(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hackettstown(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Raritan(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 Hunterdon

Comments on the location information

  • HOUSES ARE NOW ON SITE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • 1800 IT SUPPLIED LOCAL FORGES. 140 TONS WERE MINED IN 1880

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Analytical data

Result ORE WAS LEAN

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.87432, 40.77361
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip 60 SE
    Width 2.44M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1800
Year of last production 1880

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Theodore S. Pidcock And Co.
    First year 1880

Comments on the workings information

  • 1871 SHAFT WAS SUNK SW OF OLD MINE HOLE TO A DEPTH OF 35 FEET, BY 1880 IT HAD REACHED 65 FEET. A HORSE WHIM WAS USED TO HOIST THE ORE

Comments on development

  • REOPENED IN 1871 CLOSED AND REOPENED IN MARCH 1880

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 314

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1879, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, FOR THE YEAR 1879; PG 66

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1880, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, FOR THE YEAR 1880; PG 111

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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