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Oxford Furnace Quarry #1

Past Producer in Warren county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Stone
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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 10082277
MRDS ID W044990
Record type Site
Current site name Oxford Furnace Quarry #1

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.02432, 40.82139 (WGS84)
Elevation 152
Relative position ALONG ROAD BEHIND KILN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Belvidere(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Allentown(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 Warren

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • BECAUSE OF PRESENCE OF KILN, MUST HAVE BEEN USED FOR LIME

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limestone Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Kittatinny Supergroup
    Rock description Kittatinny Supergroup
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (oldest) Cambrian
    Chronological age 440

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.02432, 40.82139
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1900
Year of last production 1908

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Frank Percarpio 72 Bald Eagle Hackettstown Nj

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.202HA

Comments on development

  • NO HISTORY OF, BUT A LARGE 1 BAY KILN IS ALONG ROAD IN FRONT OF QUARRY. THE KILN IS IN ALMOST ORIGINAL CONDITION

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEWIS, J.V. 1909, BUILDING STONES OF NEW JERSEY; ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1908

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1986 Simonds, Raymond E. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

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