Washington Forge Mine.

Past Producer in Morris 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 10021795
MRDS ID DE01291
Record type Site
Current site name Washington Forge Mine.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.56709, 40.90028 (WGS84)
Elevation 195

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Morris(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dover(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(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 Morris

Comments on the location information

  • MINE HAS BEEN CAPPED ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(197?)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ESTIMATED YIELD IS 50,000 TONS.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Analytical data

Result ANALYSIS IN 1880 YIELDED 61.84% FE, 0.633% P, 0.245% S AND NO TI OR MN.

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.56709, 40.90028

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 3.05M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner L. E. Carpenter And Co
    Home office No Main St. Wharton, Nj. 07885

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVERAGE DEPTH OF WORKING WHEN MINE WAS CLOSED WAS 200 FEET, ALTHOUGH ONE SHAFT REACHED A DEPTH OF 300 FEET. AT LEAST TWO SHAFTS.

Comments on development

  • CARBON IRON COMPANY WORKED THE MINE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEPARATED FROM THE ORCHARD MINE BY THE ROCHAWAY RIVER FAULT

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.