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Mount Hope Mine - Carlton Shaft

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021860
MRDS ID DE01490
Record type Site
Current site name Mount Hope Mine - Carlton Shaft

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.5457, 40.92639 (WGS84)
Elevation 268

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 :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PART OF MOUNT HOPE MINE WHICH YIELDED 5,640,500 LONG TONS OF ORE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.5457, 40.92639
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Plunge NE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1710
Year of last production 1969

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Mount Hope Development Assoc. (Mount Hope Mining Co.)
    Home office C/O A. Cali, 11 Commerce Drive Cranford, Nj. 07016
    First year 1890

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 688.85M
    Overall depth 222.5M

Comments on the workings information

  • A SHAFT WAS 730 FT DEEP WITH 4 LEVELS - 1ST WAS 500 FT LONG, 2ND & 3RD LEVELS WERE 700 FT LONG AND AN INTERMEDIATE LEVEL, MAYBE BETWEEN 2ND AND 3RD WAS 360 FT. LONG.

Comments on development

  • ORE USED AT THOMAS IRON COMPANY FURNACES, LEHIGH VALLEY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

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

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