Jersey Limestone Quarries, Inc.

Past Producer in Sussex county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Stone, Crushed/Broken
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021719
MRDS ID DE01105
Record type Site
Current site name Jersey Limestone Quarries, Inc.
Alternate or previous names Windsor, Van Hise & Wolfe Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.55152, 41.155 (WGS84)
Elevation 183

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sussex(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hamburg(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Middletown(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Scranton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rondout(hydrologic unit)

Upper Hudson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Hudson(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Jersey Sussex

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Marble Ore
Biotite Gangue
Fluorite Gangue
Graphite Gangue
Hornblende Gangue
Muscovite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Rhodochrosite Gangue
Serpentine Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble
    Rock unit name Franklin Formation
    Rock description Franklin Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Precambrian
    Chronological age 1000000000

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.55152, 41.155

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LAYERED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of last production 1930

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PERMANENT NOTES ON FILE AT NJGS IN TRENTON, NJ.

  • Deposit

    PERSONAL COMMUNICATION 1/82.

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED BY BELL, 1984.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MARBLE IS CUT BY PATCHES AND THIN SEAMS OF INTRUDED MATERIAL.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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