Prallsville Quarry

Past Producer in Hunterdon 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. Ownership information
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021828
MRDS ID DE01444
Record type Site
Current site name Prallsville Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.98877, 40.41057 (WGS84)
Elevation 24

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hunterdon(county)

New Jersey(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

  • LOCATED BETWEEN ROUTE 29 AND DELAWARE CANAL. ; 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) Stockton Formation

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 15.24M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1870
Year of last production 1880

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Eugene Chaban
    Home office 810 Belgrade St. Phila., Pa.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.405HA

Comments on the workings information

  • WATER FILLED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1881, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST 1881.

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1985 Simonds, Raymond 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.