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Silver Mine

Past Producer in Sussex 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021707
MRDS ID DE01092
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.7382, 40.94194 (WGS84)
Elevation 226
Location accuracy 500(meters)

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

  • ONLY SOME SMALL ORE-FREE ROCK DUMPS FOUND AROUND MAP LOCATION. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NEVER EXTENSIVELY WORKED.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Garnet Gangue

Analytical data

Result 1868 ANALYSIS YIELDED 54.2% FE, 34.4% S, 24 0 O + LOI, 7.4% SIO2 & INSOL.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Biotite Gneiss;Amphibolite
    Rock description Biotite Gneiss;Amphibolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Amphibolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Precambrian
    Chronological age 1000000000

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.7382, 40.94194
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1855

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner State Of New Jersey, Department Of Environmental Protection
    Home office Labor & Industry Building ,John Fitch Plaza Trenton, Nj. 08625

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFTS AND SMALL PITS WERE AT ONE TIME PRESENT BUT NOW ALL THAT IS LEFT IS ONE SMALLPIT AND A VERY SMALL TRENCH AND SOME ORE-FREE TAILINGS.

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.

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1987.

  • Deposit

    STATE OF N.J. DEPT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY, 1982. ABANDONED IRON MINES OF BYRAM TOWNSHIP SUSSEX COUNTY.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE WAS MASSES, SEAMS OR BUNCHES OF PYRRHOTITE, WITH PYRITE, MAGNETITE AND CHLORITE

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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