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Manchester Deposit

Producer in Ocean county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Titanium, Metal
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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. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Ownership information
  14. Reserves and resources
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10024979
MRDS ID ISM0731
Record type Site
Current site name Manchester Deposit
Alternate or previous names Asarco
Related records 10198958

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.34958, 39.98334 (WGS84)
Relative position PLANT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Ocean(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Keswick Grove(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hammonton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wilmington(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Mullica-Toms(hydrologic unit)

Mid Atlantic Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Delaware-Mid Atlantic Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Jersey Ocean

Comments on the location information

  • POINT OF REFERENCE ESTIMATED FROM 1:62 500 SCALE MAP; AREA ESTIMATED FROM 1:5 000 000 SCALE MAP. DEPOSITS IN SALT WASH MEMBER, MORRISON FM., ON COLORADO PLATEAU.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium, Metal Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • TITANIUM
  • VANADIUM

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Ilmenite Ore
Rutile Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.34958, 39.98334
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Deltaic

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 6M

Comments on the geologic information

  • ; ALTERED ILMN (65% TIO2) + RUTL + ZRCN + SLMN + KYNT + STRL (+ QRTZ); THE COHANSEY FORMATION WHERE MINING OCCURRED IS A MEDIUM GRAINED QUARTZ SANDSTONE LOCALLY CONSOLIDATED BY IRON CEMENT. THE DEPOSIT IS 7 M AVERAGE THICK. THE HM CONTENT AVERAGES 4-5 WITH ALTERED ILMENITE COMPRISING 80-90% AND RUTILE 3%.
  • WEATHERING AND EROSION; LCEN; PRIMARY; V-OXIDES & V-CLAYS, -CHORITES, -MICAS & FOSSIL ORGANIC MATTER & PYRITE & JORDISITE; SECONDARY: CARNOTITE & V-OXYSALTS & LIMONITE; ORE FORMED UNDULANT PENECONCORDANT LAYERS IN REDUCED FLUVIAL SANDSTONES, PRIOR TO FRACTURING

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1956
Year of first production 1973
Year of last production 1982

Mining district

District name Lakehurst

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.)

Comments on the production information

  • FORMERLY 168 000 MT/Y ILMENITE (RF1) NONE; COULD BE RE-ACTIVATEDCOMPANY PROPRIETARY
  • CAPACITY OF 5 MILLS THAT HAD PROCESSED V-ORE WAS ABOUT 5 700 MT OF ORE/DAY. MAXIMUM PRODUCTION MIGHT BE ABOUT 12 800 MT V2O5/YR IF MINES GEARED UP TO SUPPLY MILL CAPACITY. NONE SEE C12ON SEPT 26, 1985, SEC. OF THE DEPT. OF ENERGY ISSUED A DETERMINATION THAT THE US URANIUM MINING AND MILLING INDUSTRY WAS NOT VIABLE IN 1984. MARKET FACTORS HAVE CAUSED ANNUAL PRODUCTION TO DECLINE SO MARKEDLY IN THE LAST 5 YEARS THAT IT MAY NOT BE OF RELIABLE AID IN PREDICTING FUTURE PRODUCTION. POST WWII PRODUCTION WAS FROM 1382 PROPERTIES. AN ADDITIONAL 651 MT V2O5 WAS PRODUCED FROM 109 PROPERTIES IN THE WESTWATER MBR., BRUSHY BASIN MBR., RECAPTURE MBR., AND THE MORRISON FM. (UNDIVIDED) BY 1984.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1984
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Titanium, Metal TiO2 60 wt-pct Titanium Major 1984

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • APPROXIMATE; DERIVED BY DEDUCTING APPROXIMATE TOTAL PRODUCTION FROM ORIGINAL ANNOUNCED RESERVES (RF4).SKILLINGS, 1973, ASARCO DEDICATES MANCHESTER ILMENITE MINE IN NEW JERSEY: " V. 62, NO. 44, P. 8."MARKEWICZ, F.J., 1969, ILMENITE DEPOSITS OF THE NEW JERSEY COASTAL PLAIN, I" N SUBITSKY, S., ED., GEOLOGY OF SELECTED AREAS IN NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNS" YLVANIA: NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS, P. 363-382."US BUREAU OF MINES, 1942-84, MINERALS YEARBOOK (1939-84): WASHINGTON, D.C." , US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 106 V."FANTEL, R.J., ET AL, 1986, TITANIUM MINERALS AVAILABILITY - MARKET ECONOMY " COUNTRIES, US BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 9061."
  • VANADIUM ASSOCIATED WITH $50-LB. U3O8 RESERVES (85 PROPERTIES) VANADIUM ASSOCIATED WITH PROBABLE POTENTIAL: RESOURCES OF URANIUM (CONTAINING 0,01% U3O8 OR MORE)

Comments on development

  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. ( X; NEEDS A NEW OPERATOR). DEVELOPMENT(NO); EXPLORATION(NOASARCO HAS NO INTENTION OF EVER RETURNING, ALL EQUIPMENT AND STRUCTURES ARE" BEING DISMANTLED AND SOLD. IT WOULD NEED COMPLETE REDEVELOPMENT TO START PRODUCTION AGAIN.);
  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. ( ENVIRONMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS; LABOR; X; PRICE OF V2O5 (AND U3O8)). DEVELOPMENT(NO (OR NEGLIGIBLE)); EXPLORATION(NO (OR NEGLIGIBLE)); ASSESSMENT(ONLY A MAJOR CHANGE IN THE EDCONOMIC OUTLOOK FOR U3O8 AND/OR V2O5 WILL RESULT IN ANY SIGNIFICANT PRODUCTION.); STEADILY DECREASING ORE GRADES WOULD PROBABLY REDUCE CAPACITY OF MILLS TO RECOVER V.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SKILLINGS, 1973, ASARCO DEDICATES MANCHESTER ILMENITE MINE IN NEW JERSEY: V. 62, NO. 44, P. 8.

  • Deposit

    MARKEWICZ, F.J., 1969, ILMENITE DEPOSITS OF THE NEW JERSEY COASTAL PLAIN, IN SUBITSKY, S., ED., GEOLOGY OF SELECTED AREAS IN NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS, P. 363-382.

  • Deposit

    US BUREAU OF MINES, 1942-84, MINERALS YEARBOOK (1939-84): WASHINGTON, D.C., US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 106 V.

  • Deposit

    FANTEL, R.J., ET AL, 1986, TITANIUM MINERALS AVAILABILITY - MARKET ECONOMY COUNTRIES, US BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 9061.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD WAS COMPILED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MINERALS INVENTORY. THE DATA WERE USED IN PREPARATION OF THE USGS CIRCULAR 930 SERIES OF REPORTS. MINERAL RESOURCE CATEGORIES AND CODES HEREIN ARE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM RECOMMENDED BY THE UNITED NATIONS GROUP OF EXPERTS ON DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES. (SEE NATIONAL RESOURCES FORUM, V. 4, NO. 3, P. 307-313.). DREDGE
Deposit THIS RECORD WAS COMPILED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MINERALS INVENTORY. THE DATA WERE USED IN PREPARATION OF THE USGS CIRCULAR 930 SERIES OF REPORTS. MINERAL RESOURCE CATEGORIES AND CODES HEREIN ARE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM RECOMMENDED BY THE UNITED NATIONS GROUP OF EXPERTS ON DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES. (SEE NATIONAL RESOURCES FORUM, V. 4, NO. 3, P. 307-313.). UNDERGROUND AND SURFACE GENERALLY NEGLIGIBLE REFINED

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1986 Force, Eric R. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.) — acquired by Asarco LLC, subsidiary of Grupo México (2009)
    American Smelting and Refining Co. Filed Chapter 11 in 2005; acquired out of bankruptcy by Grupo México in 2009.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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