Davenport

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021735
MRDS ID DE01125
Record type Site
Current site name Davenport

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.57348, 41.06028 (WGS84)
Elevation 402

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sussex(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Franklin(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Middletown(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Scranton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hackensack-Passaic(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 Sussex

Comments on the location information

  • PART OF THE OGDEN MINE BELT. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1954)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • DURING 7 MONTHS IN 1880 1,120 TONS OF ORE WAS REMOVED.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Analytical data

Result 1880 ANALYSES SHOWED 47.76% FE, 0.398% P, 0.208 %

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Quartz-Amphibole Plagioclase Gneiss
    Rock description Quartz-Amphibole Plagioclase Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) Biotite-Quartz-Feldspar Gneiss

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip 90
    Plunge 35
    Plunge direction NE
    Thickness 3.66M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1873
Year of last production 1880

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Sussex Iron Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Steel Corp.
    Home office 600 Grant St. Room 2469 Pittsburgh, Pa. 15230

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 50.29M

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE 5X50 FOOT TRENCH TRENDING N50W; ONE DEEP TRENCH 5 FOOT WIDE AND 30 FOOT LONG; VERY DEEP (WATER-FILLED) SHAFT 10X30 FOOT LONG; ONE 10X70 FOOT LONG TRENCH.

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

    COOK, GEORGE H., 1879. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR OF 1879.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE IS A LEAN SHOOT. QUARTZ GANGUE PRESENT.
Deposit SEE OGDEN MINES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.