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Roseberry Mine

Past Producer in Warren 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 10082278
MRDS ID W044991
Record type Site
Current site name Roseberry Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.05321, 40.80556 (WGS84)
Elevation 152
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position Within 300 Yds

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

  • NO TRACE OF MINE FOUND ALTHOUGH THERE ARE OLD DIRT ROADS IN AREA THAT IT SHOULD BE AND A LOT OF LOOSE ROCK AROUND (1985) ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate
    Rock unit name Hardyston
    Rock description Hardyston

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.05321, 40.80556
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PODS
    Dip 45 SE

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE OCCURS IN SLATE HAS THE GEOLOGICAL POSITION OF THE HARDYSTON QUARTZITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1875
Year of last production 1906

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Andover Iron Co.

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1880 500 TONS OF ORE WAS RAISED; ORE WAS SOFT AND UNPURE AND ALL OF IT HAD TO BE WASHED BEFORE SHIPPING

Comments on development

  • MINE WAS OPENED IN 1875 ON THE FARM OF JOSEPH ROSEBERRY, BY 1880 A DOZEN SHAFTS OR TRAIL PITS HAD BEEN DUG

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAYLEY, WILLIAM S., 1910, MINES AND MINING IN NEW JERSEY, VOL. VII OF THE FINAL REPORT SERIES OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST; PP-49, 57-58

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H., 1880, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1880, PG 129

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PODS OF ORE TRENDING NE MERGE DOWN DIP SE INTO ONE LAYER. 80 FEET DOWN THE ORE HITS THE GNEISS AND THEN DIPS NW. ORE BODY THICKENS AT THE FLEXURE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-86 Simonds, Raymond E. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

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