Wood Mine

Past Producer in Morris county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Iron
Sections on this page
  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. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082306
MRDS ID W055027
Record type Site
Current site name Wood Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.43208, 41.00194 (WGS84)
Elevation 256

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Morris(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Newfoundland(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Middletown(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Scranton(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

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Biotite Gangue
Plagioclase Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Mixed Gneiss
    Rock description Mixed Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Precambrian
    Chronological age 1000000000

Nearby scientific data

(1) Microperthite Alaskite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE
    Strike NORTH
    Dip 45 E

Comments on the geologic information

  • PYROXENE SKARN IS NEARBY. ASSOCIATED WITH A SULPHIDE-RICH AMPHIBOLITE MEMBER NEXT TO DEPOSIT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1873
Year of last production 1883

Land status

Ownership category County

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Pequannock Iron Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Newark Municipal Utilities Authority
    Home office C/O A La Morte; 1294 Mcbride Ave., Little Falls, Ny 07424

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 30.48M
    Overall width 6.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • PRINCIPAL WORKINGS WERE TWO INCLINED SHAFTS APPROXIMATELY 1,000 FEET APART. ONE SHAFT IS NOW FILLED IN WITH WATER

Comments on development

  • SMALL AMOUNTS OF ORE SHIPPED. ORIGINALLY OPENED BY WM. S. DECAMP, THEN RE-OPENED IN 1883 BY PEQUANNOCK IRON COMPANY

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE IS MAINLY VEINLETS, NESTS AND SEAMS

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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