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Clinton Tract Mine

Past Producer in Passaic county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Iron
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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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021849
MRDS ID DE01475
Record type Site
Current site name Clinton Tract Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.46569, 41.08028 (WGS84)
Elevation 323
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position Est 1000

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Passaic(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Newfoundland(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 Passaic

Comments on the location information

  • COULD NOT LOCATED; ONE MILE NW OF CLINTON FURNACE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.46569, 41.08028
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip 85SE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1872
Year of last production 1873

Land status

Ownership category County

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner City Of Newark, Mva
    Home office 1294 Mcbride Ave. Little Falls, Nj.07424

Comments on the workings information

  • MANY OLD SHAFTS.

Comments on development

  • IN 1872 WM S. DECAMP DISCOVERED AN OLD TUNNEL WHILE CUTTING A DRIFT.

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 1879.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE CONTAINED SOME PYRITE AND CONSIDERABLE QUARTZ

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-72 Kaeding, Margaret E. (Bell, Christy A. New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

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