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Pennsylvania Railroad Co. Quarry

Past Producer in Hunterdon county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Stone, Crushed/Broken
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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. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021827
MRDS ID DE01443
Record type Site
Current site name Pennsylvania Railroad Co. Quarry
Alternate or previous names Twinnings-2

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.98349, 40.40112 (WGS84)
Elevation 40

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Bucks(county)

Pennsylvania(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Stockton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Trenton(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 Hunterdon

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sandstone Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.98349, 40.40112
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1881
Year of last production 1897

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner S. B. Twinning Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Thomas Skeuse
    Home office Box 299, Stockton, Nj.
    First year 1985

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Length 91.44M

Comments on development

  • OPERATED BY TWINNINGS FOR THE PENNSYLVANIA R.R. NOT IN CONTINUOUS OPERATION 1897.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KUMMEL, H.B. 1896, PERMANENT NOTES OF THE NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, ON FILE AT NJGS, TRENTON.

  • Deposit

    KUMMEL, H.B., 1897, THE NEWARK SYSTEM IN SMOCK, J.C., ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1897.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1985 Master, Julian A. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

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