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Delaware Quarry & Construction Company

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 10021870
MRDS ID DE01503
Record type Site
Current site name Delaware Quarry & Construction Company
Alternate or previous names Goat Hill Trap

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.93293, 40.33473 (WGS84)
Elevation 34

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mercer(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lambertville(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
Diabase Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Rock unit name Diabase
    Rock description Diabase
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.93293, 40.33473
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Fort Commanche Inc.
    Home office 335 Newold Road, Faireen Hill, Pa.
    First year 1985

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • APPROX. 70 FT. HIGH.

Comments on development

  • AROUND 1907 WAS OPERATED BY B.M. & J.F. SHANLEY, ABOUT 1881 TWO COMPANIES WORKED HERE, G. BANCHOFF AND W. BAINBRIDGE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.E., 1956 & MITCHELL, M.W., 1914, NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS PERMANENT NOTES ON FILE AT NJ TRENTON NJ.

  • Deposit

    COOK, G., 1887, QUARRY STONES AND STATISTICS IN THE NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY'S ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1881, P. ?.

  • Deposit

    KUMMEL, H.B., 1878, THE NEWARK SYSTEM IN SMOCK, J.C., ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1897 NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.

Reporter information

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

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